The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released a fact sheet detailing cyclist crash rates and information based on 2015 crash data. Forty-five thousand cyclists were injured in crashes involving motor vehicles, and 818 were killed. The number of pedalcyclists killed in 2014 is 12.2 percent higher than the number killed in 2014 and is the highest number on record between 2006 and 2015.
The report also notes that over the last decade, the average age of pedalcyclists both killed and injured in incidents involving motor vehicles has steadily increased. The average age for fatalities was 45 in 2015, up from 41 in 2006, while the average age for injury was 35 in 2015, up from 30 in 2006. The pedalcyclist fatality rate per capita (rate per million people) was almost six times greater for males than females in 2015. Compare NHTSA's 2014 fact sheet on bicyclist fatalities and injuries.