An Irony of Cycles

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Skateboard skateboard*	574	9	17
Scooter scooter	631	112	13
Hitch-hiking hitchhik* or hitch-hik*	67^[4] (99/242)	9 (30/143)	0

As one of the most talked about and pertinent social issues surrounding hitch-hiking is it's safety, I ran the same searches including the keyword safety, yielding the even more demonstrative results presented in Table 2. Of only three articles apparently written on the safety of hitch-hiking in decades, one was on solo women drivers, one on safety issues for crew on yachts and one concerns itself with cyclists and skateboards holding onto the backs of passing trucks!

Table 2
Comparison of Published Articles on the Safety of Various Forms of Transport

Category Search Criteria	MasterFile (since 1984)	Ingenta (Uncover Plus) (since 1988)	Australian Transport Index (since 1976)
Bicycle (bicycle or cycling or bicycling) and safety	497	69	996
Skates (((inline or in-line) and skat) or rollerblad or rollerskat*) and safety	109	6	5
Skateboard skateboard* and safety	27	1	8
Scooter scooter and safety	7	2	1
Hitch-hiking (hitchhik* or hitch-hik*) and safety	3	0	0

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