[rayiner]

The fatality statistics aren’t just biking, it’s all traffic fatalities where a child is a pedestrian. While few children bike to school (2.2%) many walk (20%). See: https://usa.streetsblog.org/2013/12/03/report-more-kids-are-....

Biking and other road activities is even more common for recreational use: https://www.bizjournals.com/bizwomen/news/latest-news/2019/0...

> A recent national poll by the University of Michigan’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital asked parents about bike habits among children ages 4 to 13 and found four in five parents said their child rides a bike, 50 percent ride non-motorized scooters and 17 percent use skateboards.