Blame the victim #FAIL.

A trailer jackknife can happen when you brake the tractor, and the trailer’s momentum pushes the back of your tractor around. With a bike trailer, the bike is the tractor.

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Last week’s news that I neglected to pass along: Peter Sagal, host of public radio’s “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me” game show blogged about getting t-boned at an intersection while he rode his bike.

Via Chicago Bike Advocate and Biking In LA. Last fall, Peter Sagal’s brand new Felt road bike was stolen.

Oh yeah. Featuring big sound on bicycles in Queens, New York.

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Yesterday morning, while one of my friends tried to tell me that cell phone use doesn’t cause distracted driving, divers fished the body of an Antioch woman out of the water after she drove her Ford Expedition into the Sacramento River. She was on the phone with her daughter when she drove her vehicle onto a boat ramp and into the river. Just before the call was cut off, the victim told her daughter that her car was filling up with water and to phone her insurance company.

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Multimillionaire CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper rides a bicycle to get around, crushing the stereotype of the “loser cruiser” bike commuter.

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