CHP Traffic Incident Reports: BICYCLE ACCIDENTS


Cyclelicious. This application searches the California Highway Patrol realtime traffic incident data feed for anything involving "bike" or "bicycl" in the state of California. The Traffic Incident data feed covers only state roads under CHP jurisdiction, which mostly means Interstate highways and numbered California state routes.

Right now, this is a real time search. If I'm sufficiently motivated, I might make this automatically check the Traffic Incident report every 15 minutes and post any new incidents to Twitter or an RSS feed or something.

It should be easy enought to modify this program to search for other types of incidents (e.g. your favorite car, specific streets, highways and routes for your commute, etc.) Maybe I can add a query string to this program to do that.

Usually, you will see "No incidents found." I posted sample output in this blog post.

You can also add a single search term by appending "q=[search term]" to the end of the URL; for example http://www.cyclelicio.us/script/chpbike.php5?q=TOY will find all instances involving Toyotas.

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FOUND BIKE INCIDENT


Location: Sr26 / Jack Tone Rd, Stockton - Apr 17 2014 11:28AM

: 1125-Traffic Hazard
    -- Apr 17 2014 11:29AM [1] KIDS RIDING BIKES IN THE TRAFFIC LANE

FOUND INCIDENT

Location: I10 W / I10 W Cedar Ave Onr, San Bernardino - Apr 17 2014 5:50AM

: 1144-Fatality
    -- Apr 17 2014 8:06AM [65] [FSP] has closed their incident []
    -- Apr 17 2014 8:01AM [64] 1039 TRI CITY 909-884-9211 *2122 [Shared]
    -- Apr 17 2014 7:16AM [57] [FSP] has closed their incident [140417INFSP00067]
    -- Apr 17 2014 7:13AM [54] LINE 53 UNRELATED TO TC [Shared]
    -- Apr 17 2014 7:02AM [53] 2 PTYS WB AT CITRUS HAVE RC BRING IN BREAK [Shared]
    -- Apr 17 2014 6:40AM [38] 1022 TRI CITY ON SCENE AND WILL RE ROLL THEM OUT WHEN READY [Shared]
    -- Apr 17 2014 6:13AM [33] [FSP] has closed their incident []
    -- Apr 17 2014 6:02AM [30] 1039 SBSO CK'G IF THEY HAVE AVAIL UNITS TO ASSIST [Shared]
    -- Apr 17 2014 5:59AM [14] [Notification] [CHP]-CKG' WITH COMM CTR ON FIRE IC [Shared]
    -- Apr 17 2014 5:56AM [11] 1039 SBCC COPYS [Shared]
    -- Apr 17 2014 5:56AM [10] MULT VICS 1180 OR GRATER ADVISE FIRE [Shared]
    -- Apr 17 2014 5:56AM [9] [Rotation Request Comment] 1039 TRI CITY 909-884-9211 *2122 [Shared]
    -- Apr 17 2014 5:55AM [8] VEH IN DRAINAGE DITCH REQ 1 1185 50FT OF CABLE [Shared]
    -- Apr 17 2014 5:53AM [29] [Appended, 06:00:41] [13] [CHP] has closed their incident [140417IN00222] [Shared]
    -- Apr 17 2014 5:53AM [27] [Appended, 06:00:41] [11] [Notification] [FSP]-Problem changed from 1182-Trfc Collision-No Inj to 1179-Trfc Collision-1141Enrt by FSP [Shared]
    -- Apr 17 2014 5:53AM [26] [Appended, 06:00:41] [10] 1039 SB COMM [Shared]
    -- Apr 17 2014 5:53AM [25] [Appended, 06:00:41] [9] [Notification] [FSP]-PER FSP UTL ON THIS VISUAL OF A RED VN ROLL OVER DOWN THE DITCH [Shared]
    -- Apr 17 2014 5:51AM [3] ROLLED DWN RS
    -- Apr 17 2014 5:38AM [19] [Appended, 06:00:41] [3] [3] VEHS IN CD[Shared] [Shared]
    -- Apr 17 2014 5:38AM [18] [Appended, 06:00:41] [2] [2] BLU HOND CIV VS MAR NISS PK[Shared] [Shared]

FOUND INCIDENT

Location: Media Log, - Apr 17 2014 4:52AM

: 1013-Road/Weather Conditions
    -- Apr 17 2014 4:58AM [7] ^
    -- Apr 17 2014 4:58AM [6] ^
    -- Apr 17 2014 4:58AM [5] ^NO OTHER NEWSWORTHY INCIDENTS WERE NOTED FROM LAST EVENING
    -- Apr 17 2014 4:57AM [4] ^
    -- Apr 17 2014 4:57AM [3] ^
    -- Apr 17 2014 4:56AM [2] ^MI# 140416BC00793, 11-44, 1750 HRS, NB 15 N/ OF SR-52, T/C INVOLVING M/C VS. VEH RESULTS IN FATALITY TO M/C RIDER. CONTACT CHP SAN DIEGO FOR FURTHER DETAILS.
    -- Apr 17 2014 4:52AM [1] ^

DONE