Bicycle fatalities dropped for the third year in a row in 2010, marking the fewest number of bicyclists killed in traffic accidents since the statistics were first published in 1975.
The deaths of 618 bicyclists is still too many, but the downward trend seems to be a good sign as the number of bicyclists on the road appears to be rising. The number of bicyclists injured remained constant, at 51,000, when compared to the previous year.
The numbers were included in a federal report that noted that all traffic deaths fell to 32,885 in 2010, a 2.9% drop that reflected the lowest number since 1949. …
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A 35-year-old bicycle commuter from Bellevue was killed in Kirkland early Thursday morning after he was struck by a man driving an SUV.
Kirkland police told reporters the driver of the SUV has been booked on suspicion of driving under the influence.
News reports say the collision happened about 3 a.m. at the intersection of NE 124th Street and 132 …
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The National Park Service wants to manage the Blue Ridge Parkway “as a traditional, self-contained, scenic recreational driving experience.”
That might be fine for some, but unfortunately it doesn't consider the growing number of bicyclists who ride parts if not all of the 469-mile road along the crest of the eastern mountain chain in Virginia and North Carolina.
Under a new draft management plan proposed by the National Park Service, the managers wouldn't have to accommodate these human-powered users of the parkway …
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A German bicycle traveler is returning home from the US soon, in spite of his comatose condition.
Michael Sprick has been hospitalized in Roanoke on life support ever since he was struck by a delivery truck on a Virginia highway on Oct. 8. The driver was fined $500 on Tuesday.
In spite of being thousands of miles from home, friends he had made during his travels in the US have gathered around to lend support. That support hasn't slackened as the days turned into weeks turned into months.
If not for the tragic results of the crash, this would be a feel-good story about the bicycle community pulling together …
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German cyclist struck down by truck driver in Virginia returns to Germany in a coma.
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When the Adventure Cycling Association convened its local members in Seattle last year, at left, I had no idea we were part of the largest bicycling organization in the US.
But the nonprofit created to chart a cross-country bicycle route to celebrate the nation's bicentennial in 1976 has grown to 44,000 individual members who benefit from its mapping, tour hosting and bicycle transportation advocacy roles.
The Missoula, Montana-based nonprofit announced its results for the past year and past decade on Tuesday. During the past 10 years, membership has grown 19%, map sales are up 48% and its annual budget has soared to $4.1 million, a 65% increase from the beginning of the decade.
To me, these are all hopeful indicators …
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Can you ride them all?
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Portland Wheelmen Touring Club.
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The survivor of a life-threatening bicycle crash during a century bike ride in Oregon last summer wants to find and thank the bicyclists and passersby who saved his life.
Jim Phillips, 68, says he's alive today because of the cyclists who stopped on a screaming downhill descent during the Pioneer Century in Clakamas County on June 4 to give him aid.
“… it turns out I was bleeding profusely internally. Had I laid there, I don't know how long, I would have suffocated had I not gotten out of there,” …
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