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 INCIDENT

Location: I80 E / Jwo Madison Ave, North Sac - Dec 11 2013 4:24AM

: 1144-Fatality
    -- Dec 11 2013 5:41AM [63] S9 VIA LL - TRAFFIC MOVING FINE, 2 FAR RIGHT LNS STILL CLOSED [Shared]
    -- Dec 11 2013 5:37AM [61] 1039 NSAC OFC - CPZ LINE 59 [Shared]
    -- Dec 11 2013 5:29AM [58] 46-S10 ***CD IS OPEN AGAIN***\ [Shared]
    -- Dec 11 2013 5:05AM [51] 1039 NSAC PIO [Shared]
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:56AM [47] [Notification] [CHP]-SIGN TRUCK IS 1097 EB 80 JWO MADISON [Shared]
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:43AM [44] 46-S10 ADV 1185 - 2 SEP VEHS TOWED FOR EVID // 1039 1185 [Shared]
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:42AM [43] UA OF 1185 / 183 CPZ [Shared]
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:41AM [41] 1039 COLLEGE OAK AS EVIDENCE TOW @ 916-648-2580 [Shared]
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:40AM [40] 1039 CORONER [Shared]
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:39AM [38] [Notification] [CHP]-** ISSUE SIGALERT *** COLLISION BLOCKING THE LEFT LANE AND THE 2 RIGHT LANES , UNKNOWN WHEN THE LANES WILL OPEN [Shared]
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:38AM [32] 46-S10 PUT OUT SIG ALERT #1 AND FAR TWO RIGHT LNS CLOSED [Shared]
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:37AM [31] 1039 SAC SO [Shared]
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:34AM [29] C46-183 NEEDS CT SIGN TRUCK - WILL NEED TO BLK 2-3 LNS [Shared]
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:31AM [25] C46-183 PARTIALLY BLKG #1 [Shared]
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:29AM [20] C46-040 VIS FRM WB SIDE - VEH IN CD AND 2 VEHS PULLED TO RHS [Shared]
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:28AM [18] SAC FIRE LOG 863 [Shared]
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:28AM [15] 1039 FIRE [Shared]
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:27AM [10] [Appended, 04:27:51] [4] RP ON MADISON OFR
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:26AM [8] [Appended, 04:27:51] [2] WHI VOLVO XC90 VS UKN PED
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:26AM [4] UNK TYPE VEH
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:25AM [3] TC'D INTO CD
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:25AM [2] SOLO VEH SPIN OUT

FOUND INCIDENT

Location: I5 S / I5 S Sr32 Ofr, CH - Dec 11 2013 4:10AM

: 1144-Fatality
    -- Dec 11 2013 5:41AM [29] [Notification] [CHP]-**UPDATE SIGALERT** DUE TO A MAJOR TRAFFIC COLLISION THE RIGHT LANE IS CLOSED, MOTORISTS SHOULD EXPECT DELAYS IN THIS AREA
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:59AM [22] [Notification] [CHP]-25 MIN ETA FOR CT LEAD
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:41AM [20] [Notification] [CHP]-**ISSUE SIGALERT** DUE TO A MAJOR TRAFFIC COLLISION MOTORISTS SHOULD EXPECT DELAYS IN THIS AREA
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:38AM [19] C93-002X REQ ETA FROM CORONER,,,,,,,SO SGT IS ENRT NOW DRIVING TIME FROM WILLOWS
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:34AM [17] [Notification] [CHP]-PLEASE ADV WHEN LN IS CLOSED THANKS
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:27AM [15] C93-002X WILL BE SHUTTING DOWN THE #2 LN AROUND THE SCENE
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:22AM [13] 1039 93-S2
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:14AM [11] BUT SAW SMOKE AND SPARKS AHEAD OF HIM AS HE WAS DRIVING
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:13AM [9] 1039 GCSO FOR MEDICAL
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:11AM [3] VEHS ARE ON THE RHS
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:10AM [2] SEDAN HIT THE BACK OF THE SEMI TRUCK
    -- Dec 11 2013 4:10AM [1] SEDAN VS BIG RIG

DONE