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[quote=Anonymous]My husband commutes on bicycle about 20 miles a day, 3 days a week, for the past 5 years. In that time, he's had 6 accidents. 3 of which have landed him in the hospital with surgery.  I bike about 5 miles a day, for about the past 8 years, and have had one accident, and that is when my husband actually ran into me.  So one of his accidents was my only one.

Last night, he had an accident on the way home. He was fine (other than getting bruised up and thrown onto the back of a car), but the bike is toast. I was terrified.  I told him (I admit bad idea, but I was freaking out and I'm topsy turvy from being newly pregnant with our 2nd) that I just did not think he was a cautious-enough rider and that I didn't feel comfortable with him riding anymore.

He blew up and said that the distance and amount he rides and that he has had bad luck is the cause of all of this and that I was being "crazy."

[u]So my question for people who commute a lot in traffic is this: what is your accident ratio? What do you consider normal?[/u]

I'm trying to figure out a way to get through to him. He is adamantly against taking any kind of defensive riding classes or admitting that this could be his problem at all.[/quote]

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