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    From Spike@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 1 22:02:52 2023
    <https://infogram.com/number-of-hospital-admissions-by-mode-in-england-201617-1h984wlzm5kd6p3>

    According to Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), cycling non-collision
    Incidents (NCIs) -incidents in which no other road user was involved-
    accounted for 10,737 hospital admissions during 2016/2017. This represents
    64% of all injury-related admissions of cyclists.



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    Spike

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  • From JNugent@21:1/5 to Spike on Sun Jul 2 01:09:40 2023
    On 01/07/2023 11:02 pm, Spike wrote:

    <https://infogram.com/number-of-hospital-admissions-by-mode-in-england-201617-1h984wlzm5kd6p3>

    According to Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), cycling non-collision Incidents (NCIs) -incidents in which no other road user was involved- accounted for 10,737 hospital admissions during 2016/2017. This represents 64% of all injury-related admissions of cyclists.

    Well, maybe that's true... but... but... but... they were probably *fantasising* about motor vehicles at the time that they crashed their fairy-bikes into stone walls, pillar boxes, lamp posts, shop windows, etc.

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