May 9, 20112 Comments on Sad
It’s not a happy Monday.
I and many of you were following Stage 3 of the Giro d’Italia this morning when you saw Leopard Trek rider Wouter Weylandt crash out on the steep descent from Passo del Bocco. Weylandt succumbed to his injuries. 🙁
May 4, 20111 Comment on Anti-cyclist bias by Dayton police?
Steve Magas AKA “Ohio’s Bike Lawyer” received hundreds of pages of bicycle crash reports from the Ohio Department of Public Safety. He began analyzing the data on 12,084 reported bike crashes and found what he believes might be police bias against cyclists in Dayton, Ohio.
April 25, 2011Leave a Comment
The state of Illinois will now track doorings in their crash data, according the Chicago Tribune.
March 9, 20116 Comments on Illinois three foot law
Illinois enacted a three foot passing law in 2007. That didn’t help David and Cindy Combs, the disabled couple from Champaign, IL who were hit by a driver as they rode their tandem bicycle to choir practice on Monday afternoon. Cindy, age 53, was killed in the crash. Her widower David remains in critical condition.
March 8, 20115 Comments on Illinois blind cyclist killed
David and Cindy Combs were riding theirtr tandem bicycle to choir practice west of their hometown of Champaign, Illinois when they were hit from behind by Errol Maul of Tolono, according to the Champaign-Urbana News Gazette. Police believe Maul was reading a map when he struck the cyclists. He was ticketed for “failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident.”
February 28, 20115 Comments on Police blotter
Announcing @chpfatal: In response to the recent fascination with bike accident map projects, I’ve created @chpfatal on Twitter. It’s a real time feed of fatal car crashes in California as reported by the California Highway Patrol.
We had about 3,000 traffic fatalities in California in 2009, which is about eight lost lives everyday. The Twitter feed, which only grabs fatalities which occur on the highway and are reported to the CHP, has been running roughly two fatalities per day, while the official state statistics of 3000+ deaths tabulates all fatalities whether the responding police is the CHP or a local agency. The official state stats also record deaths that occur after the crash at, for example, the trauma center, while @chpfatal tweets mostly record the fatalities that occur on the highway itself or (sometimes) enroute to emergency treatment.
I plan to soon update my software so it creates a CSV database on the fly that can then be used by Google Fusion Tables so you can map, infograph and otherwise visualize the highway fatality data to your heart’s content.