Archive for the 'safety' Category
Five years for L.A. “road rage” doctor
Brentwood doctor who slammed on his brakes and seriously injured two cyclists to teach them “a lesson” gets five years.
More about the sentencing hearing here.
AZ Star article, with usual comments, here.
–EBR
Stop sign behavior — motorists v. bicyclists
Video found at Bob Mionske’s Road Rights column.
Any article in the local paper about bicyclists will be sure to attract many on-line comments about scofflaw cyclists who never stop at stop signs. And it’s been debated in this website, too, with several of my readers wondering why cyclists don’t always come to a complete [...]
Brooks, brakeless hipsters, and the tobacco industry
Brooks has been aggressively marketing their $500.00 and $1,000.00 bike messenger bags lately and it is getting on my nerves. I’m sure they’re great bags and everything but the appropriation of the messenger culture to do the selling of such pricey accessories is, uh, gross.
They have a full-page ad out now in Momentum that [...]
Study finds bad driving, not bad cycling, the cause of most cycling accidents
This is interesting:
A tiny proportion of accidents involving cyclists are caused by riders jumping red lights or stop signs, or failing to wear high-visibility clothing and use lights, a government-commissioned study has discovered.
. . .
The data, which was analysed by the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL), showed that more than a quarter of all [...]
Copenhagen and bicycles
Lauren just sent me this video under the heading “Copenhagen is ridiculous.” I thought it was going to be about global warming, but it is a video on some of the really creative and amazing things Copenhagen has done for bicycles. Like for example pavement-level flashing red lights that bicyclists cannot see (“we’d [...]
Read More..>>Riding to bike rack on the sidewalk now legal in Denver
One of the things that has always irked me is that, to be strictly lawful about it, you have to mount and dismount your bicycle in traffic and walk to a bike rack.
I never cared much about it until, naturally, I got a client who had been ticketed for riding his bike fifteen [...]
Asheville Firefighter pleads guilty in bicyclist shooting
Article here.
ASHEVILLE — A former Asheville firefighter pleaded guilty today to charges he shot at a bicyclist, narrowly missing his skull.
Charles Alexander Diez, 42, pleaded guilty in Buncombe County Superior Court to assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. A sentencing hearing is under way.
Police said Diez, a 17-year veteran of the Fire [...]
Lighting up the night, one bicyclist at a time
From Facebook:
Teams of volunteers will be installing bicycle lights and educating
bicyclists on the law requiring bicycles to have operating lights at
night and provide information on safe riding during both daylight and nighttime hours.
Bicycle lights will be installed on Thursday, November 19, 2009, from 5p.m. to 7 p.m. (or until supplies are exhausted) at the intersection [...]
Road raging L.A. doctor found guilty and is in jail awaiting sentencing
Many cyclists around the country have been following this case closely. L.A. Times article here.
–EBR
Two injured in Oro Valley after elderly driver hits them in the bike lane
This is all I know. It is from an e-mail from Mindy Blake to Jean Gorman:
Cyclist hit in OV
8:45 a.m. fri.
Happened at Calle Buena Vista south of Calle Concordia. An 85 year old woman hit two bicyclists who were in the bike [...]