We know that the NY Post hates bike sharing, but we always thought that they'd bow to cold hard facts about bicycling. And yet, their big story today: they analyze stats of crashes involving bikes and cars, and find that the "cycle of violence" has produced three deaths and 755 injuries in the first three months of 2012. Of course, buried halfway through the post, they mention that there were 3,650 pedestrian injuries and deaths in motor vehicle accidents and 10,297 people who died in cars during that same period. What else do you expect from a newspaper that did everything they could to connect bike lanes with 9/11?

Altogether, there were 754 bike/car accidents in the five boroughs from January-March this year, according to data collected by the Department of Transportation. Unsurprisingly, Brooklyn had the most collisions of any borough with 285 crashes; Fort Greene had the most with 24. Manhattan came in second with 229 crashes; there were 26 on the Upper East Side, 21 in the West Village, and 19 in Midtown East. Queens had 178 crashes, The Bronx had 56, and Staten Island had only six.

City Councilman James Vacca, chair of the City Council Transportation Committee, pointed out that the stats may be flawed, because not every bike/car collision is reported. “We want to get a handle on accidents because bicycle use is becoming more prevalent,” said Vacca. "We have bike sharing coming." Vacca also postulated that a majority of the accidents involve delivery cyclists: “Almost all of the complaints I get [on cyclists] are on them,” he said. Vacca has proposed a bill to penalize business owners if their employees are caught breaking traffic rules; it also requires delivery cyclists wear helmets and get bike-riding training.

Last month, Marist asked 866 New Yorkers whether they thought people driving cars, people riding bikes or people walking caused the most accidents in the city—and while most people rightly assumed it was people driving cars, there were certain prejudices against cyclists as you broke down the demographics. If you want a better idea of why so few drivers face criminal charges after killing or maiming pedestrians and cyclists, check out our in-depth coverage of the city council meeting on the subject from last February.