The number of people killed or seriously injured on the roads data builds its downward trend, according to the latest.
Provisional Department for transport (DfT) figures for the second quarter of 2009, show that the total number of people killed or seriously injured (KSI) on the streets of 1% over the same period in the year 2008 fiel.Die number that slightly injured fell by 3%.
However, while deaths and injuries among pedestrians and car users fell, compared motorcyclists increased numbers of KSI 5% until the April-June 2008, achieving 1,870.
And a 19% jump in the number of deaths and serious injuries among pedal cycle - from 688 in the second quarter of 2008 to 820 in the second quarter of this year - has caused concern.
Road safety activists fear the rise of killed and injured as commuters take up cycling in a bid to save money and avoid a larger number of less experienced cyclists on congested roads, reflecting those stuck in traffic.
Speak today morning on BBC Radio 4's today programme, RoSPA's Jo Stagg of the map shows that it was difficult to conclusions from the figures that represents a single quarter.
"The increase in the cyclist victims could be temporary - and we hope that it is."
Added that previous led economic downturn to an increase in the absorption of cycling, and higher average road speed.
"It is worrying if we hear people say you not cycle because you have security concerns, and we hope that the latest figures did not go, want to dissuade people from actually getting on your bikes."
A spokesman told the Telegraph that the figures relating to one apply 31% fall in the number of KSI cyclists since the mid-1990s DfT and pointed out that cycling increase traffic by 12% between 2007 and 2008.
He added: "We take very seriously road safety and work to improve the safety of cyclists in a number of ways."
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