A few days ago, the following news item appeared in the American-Statesman: Driver critical after collision Saturday with truck in Lakeway By Philip Jankowski American-Statesman Staff A driver remains in…
Maryland Bike Accident Lawyer on DC Area’s “Intersection of Doom” By Peter Wilborn Excellent article today in the Washington Post about Rosslyn’s “Intersection of Doom.” It accurately portrays a situation we deal…
Law enforcement officers—at least in California—just can’t seem to be bothered with actually learning the laws they are charged with enforcing. Consider the Los Angeles Police Department, which has been…
In September, I wrote about an enforcement action jointly conducted between the Los Angeles Police Department and the University of Southern California Department of Public Safety. Their target? Law-abiding cyclists…
Kevin Connell was from Miramichi, the largest city in Northern New Brunswick, with a population of just over 18,000 residents. The youngest of six children, he had grown to a…
“Cyclist At Fault In Crash With Car” That was the headline of a minor article on the “Cops and Courts” page of the Santa Cruz Sentinel recently. It was also…
In Bicycling & the Law, one of the issues Bob addressed under the rubric of anti-cyclist bias was police bias against cyclists. Anti-cyclist bias within law enforcement manifests in several…
It was a Sunday morning in July; the five cyclists, ranging in age from 26 to 45, were on their regular weekend ride. On this particular Sunday morning, they planned…