Recent Posts in Bike Accidents Category
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Posted on Dec 9, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
The Bloomberg administration has aggressively expanded New York City's bicycle infrastructure, creating hundreds of miles of bicycle lanes and encouraging residents to try out the cleaner, often ...
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Posted on Dec 1, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
countersued for his own injuries, alleging that the woman improperly crossed into the bike lane Tuesday, November 22, 2011 A Windsor Terrace woman is suing New York City for $3 million after nearly ...
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Posted on Nov 30, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM James Estrin/The New York TimesSafety-warning poems / sprouting from city sign poles / look for one near you. Look! It's a street sign with a haiku underneath. They are new, ...
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Posted on Nov 21, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
What happens to a bicycle when it gains an electric motor? Is it still a bicycle? Is it a scooter? Or is a different beast entirely, a patched-together monstrosity with no place on the road? The legal ...
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Posted on Nov 21, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Charles Astor, 4, amid the new traffic barrels set up in Prospect Park. Collisions have left two pedestrians badly injured. By J. DAVID GOODMAN On a stretch of Prospect Park 's main drive, bright ...
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Posted on Nov 16, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Ever been doored? It is actually illegal By Andreas on 15/11/2011 in Safe cycling in London I was once witness to a car dooring. My friend was pedalling past stationary traffic less than a metre ahead ...
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Posted on Nov 16, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Steps to keep in mind if you are ever involved in an accident By Andreas on 21/09/2010 in Safe cycling in London It's a horrible thought, but it is far better to be aware of the steps needed if you ...
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Posted on Nov 16, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
A Room of Their Own for 2-Wheeled Commuters Dave Sanders for The New York Times Jordan Mokriski in the bike storage room of the Starrett-Lehigh Building, where he works. The room holds about 150 ...
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Posted on Nov 14, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
The Pedestrian Loses the Way By CHRISTOPHER GRAY Published: November 10, 2011 IN the future, perhaps our time will be known as the first decade of the Bicycle Wars, with righteous armies fighting over ...
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Posted on Nov 8, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Pleasures of Life in the Slow Lane By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN Published: November 7, 2011 New Yorkers should love bicycling. We're control freaks. We want to get from here to there in a New York minute and ...
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Posted on Oct 28, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
The Surprising Psychology of Driver Interaction With Cyclists by Angie Schmitt on October 26, 2011 Pop quiz. Do you wear a helmet when you ride? Spandex or normal clothes? Are you female or male? ...
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Posted on Oct 19, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
By Joe Coscarelli Mon., Feb. 28 2011 at 2:34 PM This afternoon, Gothamist points us to a proposal by assemblyman Michael DenDekker, a Democrat from Queens, which would require by law that every ...
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Posted on Oct 11, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
The driver's neighbor writes us in his defense.] A delivery worker, described by police as a 41-year-old Asian man, was killed last night in Greenpoint when a driver in a Buick struck him from behind ...
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Posted on Oct 11, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
It's a great time to be a bike advocate-so go ahead and party like it's 1899. By Bob Mionske Fifty years ago, there was no national bicycling advocacy organization. This hadn't always been the case. ...
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Posted on Oct 5, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
A critical Mass goes horribly wrong with multiple people injured in bike accident. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDrX-kvppiE&feature=player_detailpage
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Posted on Oct 5, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
NEW YORK - Bicycle lanes, cycling lessons for adults, and soon 10,000 bikes in a sharing program : New York is pedaling hard to join the world's growing love affair with the bicycle. The number of New ...
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Posted on Oct 4, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Just when we thought we heard all there is to hear about the dangers involved in texting and driving, now we need to warn rider about texting and biking. It may take superb balance to pull off, but ...
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Posted on Sep 29, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Fixed gear bikes that have become popular in New York neighborhoods and fashion forward accessory in Brooklyn, LIC and as far west as San Fransisco are now heading overseas and are being found in ...
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Posted on Sep 28, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
In effort to make New York City more "biker friendly", Mayor Bloomberg has ordered 10,000 bicycles to be distributed among 600 bike racks throughout Manhattan and some areas of Brooklyn by next ...
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Posted on Sep 28, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
A rise of 26 per cent in the number of accidents involving cyclists in the UK has prompted an outcry for greater awareness of the dangers of cycling amongst all road users. The Department for ...
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Posted on Sep 28, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
ESCONDIDO - A 79-year-old Escondido man died Tuesday night following a bicycle accident, police said. Officers responded about 7:30 p.m. to Mission Avenue, east of Gamble Street, to a report of an ...
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Posted on Sep 25, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
By IAN AUSTEN Published: September 24, 2011 MONTREAL - When the Belgian cyclist Wouter Weylandt was killed in a crash during the Giro d'Italia in May, the commemoration began immediately. Each rider ...
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Posted on Sep 25, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
The New York times recently published an article on the deception produced in competitve races, including bike races that compel competitiors to ride faster. Tom Boland/The Canadian Press, via ...
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Posted on Sep 23, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
Cops Shrug Off Witnesses to Fatal Vespa/SUV Crash Aileen McKay-Dalton Despite three witnesses who say that the driver of an SUV blew through a red light and killed a Vespa-driving Fort Greene mother ...
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Posted on Sep 21, 2011 By Dan Flanzig
SOMETHING lovely and all too rare happened to Janette Sadik-Khan, New York City's frequently demonized transportation commissioner, as she and I rode our bikes down Park Avenue South one morning last ...
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