by Melissa Nann Burke The News Journal Published January 3, 2013 Traffic fatalities on Delaware roadways rose by nearly 12 percent in 2012, an increase caused in part by a spike in pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities, according to preliminary figures from State Police and the Delaware Office of Highway Safety. Police recorded 115 traffic deaths last…
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There are a lot of things we do while bicycling to avoid accidents and injuries. For safety’s sake, we should be doing these kinds of things: Safe behaviors: for example, stopping at stop signs and red lights; riding defensively, watching what motorists around us are doing that could create problems for us; riding single file…
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“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” – Mark Twain In the spirit of Mark Twain, and as a service to Bike Delaware’s readers, we offer the following caution on bicycle blinky lights, from Grant Petersen’s “Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to…
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If you want to travel from point A to point B in Delaware, doing so has become increasingly safe…as long as you are traveling as an occupant in a motor vehicle. Traffic fatalities for occupants of motor vehicles have fallen almost every year for the past 10 years in Delaware. That is a cause for…
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Featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer – As the number of bicyclists on Philadelphia streets has risen, cyclists and city officials have seen a counterintuitive result: The number of bike crashes and deaths has declined. This “safety in numbers” phenomenon has been documented elsewhere, and safety experts believe it is because motorists become more alert to…
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Crazy Mini-Cooper Drivers Pucher and Dijkstra have calculated that the bicyclist fatality rate in the United States was about 10 times (1000%) the fatality rate for the occupants of cars and small trucks per mile (or kilometer) traveled (1995). We summarized their work in a recent post (where we delved into the statistics a…
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In the most recent data released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Adminstration (NHTSA), there were 630 “pedalcyclist” fatalities in the U.S in 2009, which accounted for 2% of all traffic fatalities during the year. NHTSA’s report contains a wealth of other information, with the data broken down by rural / urban, intersection / non-intersection,…
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MIAMI, Florida – According to USA Today, Florida is the deadliest state in the U.S. for pedestrians – and bicyclists don’t fare any better. In 2008, the most recent year for which federal statistics are available, 11.1% of pedestrians and 17.4% of bicyclists killed in the U.S. died in the Sunshine State, which has 6%…
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