In America, I think drivers don’t know how to drive around cyclists, so quite a few will drive frighteningly close. I wouldn’t care to guess about the percentage.
But even 1% is a lot of people. A bicycle even on a short trip will be passed by 10s of cars. So, if you bike everywhere, that might be 1 close call a day. So, I’m guessing that Spain is not actually as dangerous as 1% and you were just picking a large number.
I don’t think about each time a driver passes me a closer than 1.5m as a “close call”. Once I went off the road and fell right into 1.5m deep ditch. Now that was a close call… I still don’t know how I didn’t hurt myself. I did get fired next day but it was unrelated.
In America, I think drivers don’t know how to drive around cyclists, so quite a few will drive frighteningly close. I wouldn’t care to guess about the percentage.
But even 1% is a lot of people. A bicycle even on a short trip will be passed by 10s of cars. So, if you bike everywhere, that might be 1 close call a day. So, I’m guessing that Spain is not actually as dangerous as 1% and you were just picking a large number.
I don’t think about each time a driver passes me a closer than 1.5m as a “close call”. Once I went off the road and fell right into 1.5m deep ditch. Now that was a close call… I still don’t know how I didn’t hurt myself. I did get fired next day but it was unrelated.