A student is

organizing their evidence for an argument about increasing the number of bike lanes throughout their town. One of their reasons is that adding bike lanes makes it safer for bikers to travel around town. Which piece of evidence would help support this reason?
Reports reveal around 700 cyclists die each year due to bike accidents.
A bike lane would be useful because
• many people in town prefer to ride bikes.
The addition of a bike lane would encourage more people to bike more and drive less.
Studies show that people who bike more are happier and healthier.

A study conducted by the University of X found that towns with bike lanes experienced a 40% decrease in biking accidents compared to towns without bike lanes.