Comments on: Bicycle accident map https://bikedenton.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/bicycle-accident-map/ Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:56:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: howard https://bikedenton.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/bicycle-accident-map/#comment-430 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:36:38 +0000 http://bikedenton.wordpress.com/?p=1823#comment-430 In reply to Nina C..

@neener, you mention a key point that I forgot in the article. Bicycle accidents are seriously underreported, and we try to implore cyclists to report accidents, because if there’s no paper trail, there’s no problem. I wonder if it’s a self-perception problem that “hey, I’m on a cheap 30 pound bike, not a costly 3000 pound car that has insurance and a payment”, leading cyclists to not report accidents? Thanks for the kind words!

]]> By: Nina C. https://bikedenton.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/bicycle-accident-map/#comment-429 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:28:17 +0000 http://bikedenton.wordpress.com/?p=1823#comment-429 As always, thank you for the continued resources you all provide for the pedalin’ citizens in Denton. A cyclist was hit in my neighborhood a few months ago but no one called the police. Makes me wonder how many more dots would be on the map if every incident was called in.

]]> By: Robert https://bikedenton.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/bicycle-accident-map/#comment-428 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:03:58 +0000 http://bikedenton.wordpress.com/?p=1823#comment-428 A lot of cases reporting ‘wrong way – one way road’, so it sounds like sound advice to just not do that anymore. I wonder which driver is usually meant in case of ‘driver inattention’. Anyway, interesting map!

]]> By: Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for July 8th « Texbiker.net https://bikedenton.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/bicycle-accident-map/#comment-424 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:39:43 +0000 http://bikedenton.wordpress.com/?p=1823#comment-424 […] Bicycle accident map from Bike Denton by howard Readers from last year will remember that when Nick Magruder was seriously hit and run on Bonnie Brae, the Denton Police were not collecting bicycle accident stats at that time.  Naturally, we asked if they could, and they agreed to start keeping track of bicycle accidents.  The police gave us a raw spreadsheet of accident data, and we plugged in the data to Google Maps via http://www.batchgeo.com.  You can click on each dot… […]

]]> By: john https://bikedenton.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/bicycle-accident-map/#comment-423 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 03:54:31 +0000 http://bikedenton.wordpress.com/?p=1823#comment-423 It seems a good majority of the accident reports fault the cyclist.

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