Dan Noyes, head inspector at the I-Team and blogosphere crush du jour, reports that according to the lying monsters at the CHP, 4,474 accidents were caused by bad car-driving, and 6,988 by bad bike-driving. (That's 11,462 total accidents.) What's worse, bicyclists in accidents were three times more likely to be drunk! In their defense, that's the only state in which bike advocates are funny.

Now, granted, riding your bike while drunk doesn't present the same public hazard as driving a speeding deathmachine. It's a hazard, sure -- we've got the data, and dangerous bike-driving causes accidents and in some cases deaths -- but it's not hazardous as car-driving, right? One's REALLY dangerous, and the other's only slightly dangerous. It's like dropping a baby out of a first-floor window versus a third-floor window. Or not even! It's like dropping a baby only a couple inches -- not even on its head! You don't mind if we drop your baby a little bit, do you?

After the jump: caveats.

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