Monday, April 1, 2013
2012 bike crash data finalized
As we noted earlier, there were a total of 106 reportable bike crashes in 2012. The final table of crash locations was just posted on the Fairfax County 2012 Bike Crash page:
The leading cause of most crashes involving bicyclists was one party failing to yield the right of way. In 19 crashes (18%) the bicyclist was found to not have the right of way and in 30 crashes (28%) the driver was found to not have the right of way.
We used a program called BatchGeo to geocode the data and produce a draft crash map but there are several suspect points so the map needs a lot of editing. We're hoping Fairfax Police will produce a map using their GIS system.
Here is a link to the 2010 Fairfax Bike Crash Map.
Labels: bike crash
Comments:
1. Personal takeaways
Dont ride on wrong side of road. Dont ride distracted, and be careful about yielding right of way. Avoid notorious traffic sewers.
2. Policy takeaways - Improvements by drivers and cyclists are both needed. Most cyclist faults are NOT failure to observe signs signals. Both cyclists and drivers receive citations.
Dont ride on wrong side of road. Dont ride distracted, and be careful about yielding right of way. Avoid notorious traffic sewers.
2. Policy takeaways - Improvements by drivers and cyclists are both needed. Most cyclist faults are NOT failure to observe signs signals. Both cyclists and drivers receive citations.
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: April 2, 2013 at 8:55 AM
: April 2, 2013 at 8:55 AM
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