Bike casualties

THE July 7 bombings may have caused a second wave of casualties as fearful Londoners switched from the Tube to bicycles.

Analysis of transport data found that 214 more cyclists were killed or injured on the capital’s streets in the second half of 2005 than expected from historical trends.

Researcher Peter Ayton, professor of psychology at City University London, said this appeared to be an example of “dread risk”.