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After drivers struck his daughter on a bike twice, dad demands safe routes to school
If a reckless driver nearly injured your loved one on a bike, you'd be angry. If the same thing happened again in an almost identical manner, you'd be enraged.
November 30, 2022
Cop ran stop sign without lights or siren, creamed bike rider in Humboldt Park
When police ignore the very traffic rules they're tasked with enforcing, that further erodes public trust in a force that has well-documented problems with abuse of power.
September 12, 2022
How could death of Sam Bell, 2nd cyclist killed on Milwaukee in 2022, have been prevented?
Redesigning intersections to make it harder for drivers to whip around corners, requiring skills testing for older motorists, and stiffer penalties for drivers who kill would help prevent such tragedies.
September 9, 2022
Anatomy of a bike crash: Why did today’s collision at Addison/Drake happen?
A teenage girl on a bike collided with a driver, apparently because she was understandably afraid to ride in a four-lane street. What should we do about that?
August 22, 2022
Vigil planned for fallen cyclist Adé Hogue on Tuesday 6 PM at Grand and LFT
"It's hard to say who's really at fault," a witness said. "I don't know how she didn't see him."
October 28, 2021
Emails: CDOT trucker injured SAFE Ambassador on bike, but she was home the next day
Correspondence obtained through a FOIA request provides a window on on the crisis management conversation that took place after one city employee injured another one.
September 30, 2020
Bolingbrook cross country team member Kaylee Pannek seriously injured in bike crash
Pannek was struck in a crosswalk of an intersection with seven lanes in each direction and no pedestrian islands.
August 31, 2020
Hit-and-run driver struck and killed Walter Williams Jr., 72, in North Lawndale
Williams was the third Chicago cyclist to die in a crash in the last month.
July 13, 2020
Driver of CDOT-owned truck critically injured female cyclist, 31, at Belmont/Milwaukee
The victim was at least the seventh female or gender-nonconforming cyclist critically injured or killed by a right-turning trucker in Chicago since 2016.
June 23, 2020
Open letter to a hit-and-run driver
If you injure someone with your car, stopping to render aid is required by law, and it's the bare minimum required to qualify as a decent human being.
May 12, 2020
