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On city streets with lots of driveways, alleys, parking and intersections, most of the look-but-failed-to-see errors that affect bicyclists originate from the right side of the road. That’s not to belittle the danger from the left (particularly from left-turning drivers) or behind, which tends to produce more injurious crashes.
As far as I know the best place to start is still the North Carolina Bicycle Crash Data Tool, but here’s a sampling of other stuff from my online bin of bike safety studies ( industrializedcyclist.com/lies.html ):
Ralph Wessels’ study of Washington state police reports 88-93
Fort Collins ’07-’09 all roads
Hunter et al 6-state study ’96
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After a few years of sweet reversal of the VMT (Vehicle Miles Traveled) chart, then a few years of bouncing along what looked like a New Normal, things have turned around in a big way. Cheap gas being the primary culprit. Back to our old ways just like that, and making up for lost time.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/travel_monitoring/15augtvt/figure1.cfm
Industrialized Cyclist Notepad 