October 17, 20123 Comments on SWSS: Single Witness Suicide Swerve
You’ve heard the story: In a bike vs motor vehicle crash where the only statement given to police came from the driver (because the cyclist is either dead, carted off in an ambulance, or is blatantly ignored), the driver will swear up and down that the cyclist swerved directly in front of him!
Photo of what this looks like below, but I’ll warn you, it’s not pretty.
October 9, 20125 Comments on Incorrect title
October 4, 2012Leave a Comment
The makers of SPOKE left San Francisco last Saturday on a cross country journey to look in depth at cyclists who have been killed while riding in the United States.
Among their first stops: Joshua Laven’s ghost bike on Highway 1 north of Santa Cruz.
September 17, 2012Leave a Comment
August 4, 20128 Comments on Hit & run vs bike caught on dashcam
A Good Samaritan with a dashcam catches an SUV driver turning right on red and hitting a girl on a bike. The SUV driver runs, and Good Sam gives chase, catches him at the next block and tells the driver that he’s been caught on camera.
The SUV driver turns back and exchanges info with the cyclist.
Leaving the scene of a property damage traffic accident without exchanging information is a misdemeanor hit and run in California. I think this video was shot in or near Los Angeles somewhere.
August 1, 20121 Comment on First hand report: Olympic bus vs cyclist
From Reddit:
As I was cycling home from work tonight a guy, maybe in his late 20’s, was cycling level with me and as we approached a bus he went inside while I held back. The lights changed as he was in the buses blind spot and as he was attempting to go straight the bus turned left. He didn’t really have anywhere to go and no time to do anything anyway… he got pulled under the wheel and dragged around 10 feet or so. As soon as the bus was definitely stopped i crawled under to him from the other side and i was immediately aware that i didn’t think he’d make it.
Discussion and more: Just sat down with some poor bloke for his last few seconds. Be safe out there guys.
