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From Urbanvelo’s blog:

Cycling—It’s Safer Than Living!

Activity	Fatalities*
Skydiving	128.7
On-road motorcycling	8.8
Scuba diving	2.0
Living (all causes of death)	1.5
Snowmobiling	0.9
Passenger cars	0.5
Water skiing	0.3
Bicycling	0.3
Flying (scheduled domestic airlines)	0.2
Passenger car post-collision fire	0.0

*Per million hours of activity.

From Charles R. Murray, “The Real Story: Overdesign Prevents Cars from Exploding,” Design News, October 4, 1993.

I hope this cancels out the weight/death correlation I linked to earlier.

A lengthier article from the Gristmill.

PS: though it looks like I’d be safer commuting in a collided, burning car.