Northstar. Considering the amount of cyclists in Holland I doubt there would be that many serious or fatal accidents. Look how many car accidents there are every day with 4 or more people killed. Coming home tonight, in the middle of town, there had been a serious car crash. By the look of it, it was a fatality. Someone had obviously come down the dual carriageway far too fast, lost it at the roundabout and ploughed head-on into a signpost, flattened that and bounced off the barriers which are about 1 ft behind the signpost, spun off and came to rest about 50 yards up the road. The accident couldn't have happened more than about 20-30 minutes (or less) before we came past. The Police, Fire Brigade (who I think had cut the roof off the car to get the occupants out) and the Ambulance Service were all there. I didn't see it but my son said there was a body bag on the ground - and there was a body in it Heartbreak for someone tonight

I don't know what cycling's like in America but over here we so badly need a system like they have in Holland. Our government has been banging on for a long time about people being overweight, global warming etc. etc. yet it does nothing to get people onto bikes. Any new roads that are constructed should be constructed with completely separate bike lanes as we have seen in the videos and I think it's high time various cycling groups lobbied the governments of our respective countries for this.

At the end of the day, bicycles are going to be around long after cars have become a thing of the past.