Details are sketchy about the incident that occurred at about 7:00 a.m at the intersection of Kimbrough and Grand. Here’s the report from KSPR: Police say the teen was riding north and went to cross the road when the light turned green. A car heading south and making a left turn didn’t see the biker [...]
The details from the News-Leader are sketchy: A 7-year-old boy on a bicycle collided with a van at the intersection of Kansas Expressway and Hovey St. The child suffered a broken leg. I found this interesting: Phillips said the boy, who was riding a bike, and the van met at the corner of Hovey Street [...]
The City of Springfield issued its 2009 crash report at yesterday’s Traffic Advisory Board Bicycle-Pedestrian Committee meeting. I am a member of that subcommittee. The report is full of good news. Crashes and fatalities are down. One sad note is the recent death of a teenager — the only bicycle crash fatality for 2009. There [...]
The source of this justice problem is our social acceptance of inattentive driving. — Keri Caffrey. Go read the entire thing right now. Resources and information: U.S. Legal Definitions Mid-America Regional Council Online Lawyer Source National Motorists Association Dealernews.com Something to ponder: There are approximately 40,000 traffic deaths per year. A typical, fully-loaded Boeing 747 [...]
The following are sentences from recent news stories about bicycle crashes. I gathered them by searching for “bicycle accident” on Google news. I’ve listed every statement mentioning helmet use in each of the first 10 appropriate stories (one mention per story). Two stories did not mention helmet use. Her bicycle was nearby and she was [...]
The recent April Crash Report Card published by the City of Springfield says: The numbers of pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcycles on our roadways are increasing, which is overall a positive development for our community. However, on the down side, most motorists have not yet realized that they also must adapt to having these alternative forms [...]
The New York Times reports today on a study that suggests that alcohol — bicycling under the influence – may play a significant role in cycling deaths: Some 21 percent of autopsies for New York City bicyclists who died within three hours of their accidents detected alcohol in the body, according to a Department of [...]
An SUV driven by a teenager collided with a 78-year-old bicyclist near Topeka, Kansas yesterday, according to Kansas Cyclist. Details from cited news sources say that the bicyclist, Lewis J. Sedge, had the right of way at the time of the collision at S.E. 53rd and Berryton Road, about a mile south of Lake Shawnee. [...]
