Cycling is safe for kids, no need to wrap them in cotton-wool

"Studies have shown that when cycle use grows, so does safety, even in towns and cities not designed to be bike friendly. Peter Lyndon Jacobsen, a US public health consultant, wrote a paper in 2003 which examined the relationship between the numbers of people walking or cycling and the frequency of collisions between motorists and walkers or cyclists. The common wisdom holds if more people walk or cycle, more people must get hit by cars. However, Jacobsen found the opposite. A motorist is less likely to collide with a person walking and cycling if more people walk or cycle. Policies that increase the numbers of people walking and cycling appear to be an effective route to improving the safety of people walking and cycling, he concluded. "

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