Findings from a year of fatality tracking, May 2014. Every Bicyclist Counts – A memorial to the cyclists by the League of American Bicyclists.

“From February 2011 to February 2013 we proactively gathered information for Every Bicyclist Counts from monitoring media and public outreach. We captured 628 fatalities overall and 552 in 2012 alone. In 2012, FARS [Fatality Analysis Reporting System maintained by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)] reported 726 bicyclist deaths. Our Every Bicyclist Counts dataset is limited to fatalities and depended upon public sources and input. The majority of the information captured by Every Bicyclist Counts comes from newspaper reports (56% of all reported sources), TV reports (25%) and blogs (19%).”