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Decent coverage, but the subtext that biking is dangerous bugs me. Does anyone keep a quick list of cyclists killed in DC and its suburbs? It's hard to get a reliable count with google. All I come up with is Swanson killed in the R Street bike lane last year and Axibal in 2004.

If biking were so dangerous there'd be deaths every year. Two in five years doesn't paint a dangerous picture. But is that accurate? I don't know.

Yes. The federal government does, through the Fatality Analysis Reporting System or FARS. Though you have to go year by year through it. So I did that for you. Here are fatalities in DC over the last few years.

1994 2
1995 1
1996 1
1997 0
1998 0
1999 1
2000 1
2001 2
2002 1
2003 0
2004 3
2005 3
2006 0
2007 1
2008 2

So 18 deaths over the last 15 years or just over 1 per year.

It is worth pointing out that looking at each five your group we get

94-98 4
99-03 5
04-08 9

The last quote about Rock Creek is spot on.

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