Category Archives: Crashes

Patricia Kovacs’s review of crashes in a two-way separated bikeway

Posted on September 16, 2021 by jsallen

Patricia’s review is here. She reports an increase in the number and rate of crashes on Summit Street in Columbus, Ohio following the installation of a two-way parking-separated bikeway on the right-hand side of this one way street. A cyclist … Continue reading →

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A crash in Toronto

Posted on December 2, 2019 by jsallen

Have a look here: https://globalnews.ca/news/6209332/video-cyclist-struck-markham/ [also archived, video not available there.I do have it stored in case of need.] So, who was at fault, but more importantly, because an ounce of prevention is better than a ton of cure, who … Continue reading →

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Crash on the Pinellas Rail Trail

Posted on November 18, 2019 by jsallen

An article about a car-bicycle crash on the Pinellas Rail Trail in Florida is on the Cycling Today Web site : There was a lot of nonsense about this crash in a Facebook post and comments. Many people just looked … Continue reading →

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Mighk Wilson’s report on Orlando bicycle crashes

Posted on October 3, 2018 by jsallen

Mighk Wilson, who works for the Orlando, Florida metropolitan planning organization, has prepared a very interesting study of bicycle crashes in the Orlando area based on a database of 5,000 crashes, 2011-2017. The study is important in that it distinguishes … Continue reading →

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Description and history of the location of the Tempe crash

Posted on March 23, 2018 by jsallen

Comments from Reed Kempton, a Senior Planner with the Maricopa County Department of Transportation, late in the day on March 21. This is an addition to my earlier post about the crash. I thank Reed for his permission to post … Continue reading →

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The Tempe crash

Posted on March 21, 2018 by jsallen

The dashcam video in the recent Tempe crash which killed a woman walking across the street with a bicycle has now been released. To me, it is quite clear that the human driver was dozing off or distracted and that … Continue reading →

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Avoiding the left cross

Posted on September 2, 2017 by jsallen

This post isn’t about pointing the finger of blame. If that is to your taste, you would have been able to find endorsement of that position in many comments on the video below when it was originally posted on YouTube. … Continue reading →

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Alice Swanson fatality, a right hook

Posted on June 6, 2017 by jsallen

Here is the intersection in Washington, DC, where cyclist Alice Swanson was killed by a right-turning garbage truck. The Street View is from 2009, as close as Google gets to the year of the crash (2008). The big cross street … Continue reading →

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Duck Boat crashes

Posted on May 14, 2016 by jsallen

We had a duck boat run into a motor scooter from behind on Saturday, April 30, 2016 in Boston, killing one of the riders. It appears that the poor forward visibility from the duck boat was a factor. (Boston Globe … Continue reading →

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Some thoughts about self-driving cars

Posted on July 25, 2015 by jsallen

Google’s report on its self-driving cars: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en/us/selfdrivingcar/files/reports/report-0515.pdf — no longer available. Here is an updated version. Most than half of the collisions reported in this document are slow-speed rear-enders of the Google cars. That’s unusual. It might be that the … Continue reading →

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