By Jen Benepe The Ghost Bike carried to it’s final resting place by Peter Meitzler is this week’s bike of the week. Meitzler painted the bike in his studio and then carried it along the route of the Ghost Bike Memorial ride, which eventually ended in Queens. Cyclists from all of the five boros...
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Rides will be held throughout the five boroughs of New York this weekend to honor the 20 cyclists who have fallen on city streets since last year. The event will also memorialize and recognize the 136 pedestrians who were killed by automobiles in the same time period. The annual Ghost Bike ride will be...
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When you set out for a ride every day, do you wonder whether you’ll make it home in one piece? If you do, there is good reason because American drivers are using more devices and are more distracted than other drivers worldwide, says a new report. Almost 70 percent of Americans ages 18 to...
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In a horrific crash between a young driver and a cyclist, the driver fled the scene after striking the cyclist, but not before jettisoning his arm–which had been amputated in the crash– into a nearby stream. The article, which can be translated from Portuguese using Google Translate, was published in Sao Paulo on the website...
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The head of the League of American Bicyclists is asking Americans to appeal to the federal government for safer cycling. In a letter from LAB’s director Andy Clarke, he writes, “The US Department of Transportation is required by the new transportation law to establish national safety goals and performance measures to guide the states....
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Two British cyclists who were traveling around Thailand by bicycle and documenting it in their blog were killed by a young driver who leaned down to pick up his cap while driving his truck. The 25-year-old driver was released pending an investigation. In Thailand, killing someone with your motor vehicle can result in up...
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In Saturday’s NY Times this week, Chanel Reynolds reveals how after her 43-year-old husband suddenly died in 2009 after being hit by a car while riding his bicycle, she had to get her financial life in order. Reynold’s husband, Jose Hernandez, hadn’t left any paperwork, including a signed will that would make it easy...
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By Jen Benepe Billy Dominguez was killed early Monday morning in Georgetown, SC,  by a young male driver driving a pickup truck. The 43-year-old had started out in the early morning when he was struck by the Ford truck driver in the northbound lanes of U.S. 17 near the bridges at the entrance to the...
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We have difficulty understanding how the reporters knew the speed of the cyclist, and how a cyclist riding a mountain bike could achieve such speeds on a portion of roadway that has a very moderate decline, East 95th Street, on the Central Park Drive north.  I mean my goodness if he really was going...
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Residents living along Route 9W learned this week that lawmakers and the state transportation agency will be posting signs warning cyclists of the danger of the route. This decision, agreed to between Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffe and the state Department of Transportation sidesteps the more difficult and politically unpalatable step of reducing the speed limit,...
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New York, NY., August 9, 2012, By Jen Benepe Four industrious NY Daily News reporters wasted their time and ours by going out and clocking the speed of cyclists in Central Park, as published in their report today. Their finding? Cyclists were going over the “speed limit” of 25 mph in the park, and ergo–posing...
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In the News, July 20, 2012 More and more cyclists are using video cameras like GoPro to record their rides. But what many of them are capturing are the drivers who curse at them, side-swipe them, and send them flying to the pavement. GoPro, who makes video cameras that can be affixed to your...
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With injuries he sustained to his hand yesterday, there was some question at the beginning of stage 5 whether Team Sky’s Mark Cavendish would be up to a full scale sprint. Well, at least he answered part of that question, with his sprint win at the intermediate point in Breteuil where he won handily...
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Tomorrow night—Tuesday—there will be a meeting held at the Orangetown Town Hall about the crash on Route 9W that killed Janet Martinez. The family of Ms. Martinez has asked for the meeting where they plan to ask for a reduction in the speed limit, and the placement of signs to increase safety for cyclists...
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The media has been buzzing about the cyclist who was arrested for striking a pedestrian because by his own admission, he could not stop when going through a yellow light. But one thing missing in all the uproar over Bucchere is a sound fundamental in the traffic profile of San Francisco: Many more cyclists...
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We’ve been trying to come up wtih all kinds of reasons why the trucker who killed Emma Blumstein, 24, on Bedford Ave. in Brooklyn Tuesday, could not stop before he hit her. Apparently he deftly performed a “left cross” in front of Blumstein, who had right of way and was traveling south on Bedford,...
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“She had an infectious laugh,” said Kristina Curti about her mother Janet Martinez who died Sunday after being struck by a motorist on Route 9W. “She had a big smile,” continued Kristina, then slipping into the present tense like so many people do when their loved ones leave suddenly, “She has a beautiful smile.”...
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Distracted driving may have been the cause of a crash resulting in the death of a Rockland County cyclist last Sunday. Orangetown Police have determined that the driver, Denise Patawaran who struck and killed Janet Martinez around 1:39 PM June 10 was at fault. But the investigation is still pending on whether that fault...
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