A Bicycle Safety Parable
I. The Artful Advocates and the Fair City Once upon a time in the land of the Massachusett, the streets of the Fair City of Cambridge were dominated by great an...
Category: Crashes
Dooring is Real. So Stop Putting Bike Lanes in the Door Zone
I have been doing some research about bike lanes and on-street parking over the past few years and have found: Most crash data sources do not include crashes wh...
Motorist Overtaking Fatalities in Urban Areas
The U.S. DOT/NHTSA’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System now includes a code for bicyclist crash type. The map below has the 2015 fatalities that involve m...
Bicycling is Dangerous–When Drunk Or Negligent Drivers are About
On June 28 2016, a year after causing the death of 18-year-old bicyclist Fritz Philogene (pictured below) in Dorchester, Mass., Gregory McCoy plead guilty and w...
Death by Harassment
Another bicyclist has tragically and needlessly died in the Boston area. Not because bicycling is dangerous, but because harassment by motorists is — when...
Boston Bicyclist Injury Report
I’ve finally completed a report analyzing almost 1,800 bicyclist crash incidents reported by Boston Police between 2009 and 2012. The City of Boston produ...