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Cyclist Fatalities

May 20 2014
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Out Of Tragedy, Halting Steps Towards Protecting Vulnerable Users

By BicycleLaw Blog, Cyclist Fatalities No Comments

Portland Bicycle Accident Attorney on Vulnerable Road User Laws

By Bob Mionske

Gerald Apple was returning home from a ride. One left turn, and he would be in his driveway. But as he began turning, a driver coming up behind …

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May 16 2014
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Sending A Message In San Francisco

By BicycleLaw Blog, Cyclist Fatalities No Comments

by Rick Bernardi

In America, we like to imagine that our lives have value. That we count. That we are somebody. That, great or small, we have rights. It’s right there in our Declaration of Independence, after all: “We hold …

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Apr 24 2014
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The “Get Out Of Jail Free” Card Strikes Again

By BicycleLaw Blog, Cyclist Fatalities 6 Comments

By Rick Bernardi

I’ve been car-free since 2002, when a teen driver slammed her daddy’s SUV into the back of my car, while I was stopped at a red light (The first words she said when she got out of …

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Apr 22 2014
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Personalizing The Consequences Of Bicycle Crashes – The Gerald Apple Story

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By Ann Groninger, Bike Law North Carolina

I always wonder what it will take to get the attention of motorists. How can we drive it into people that they shouldn’t take risks when operating a two ton hunk of metal …

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Apr 04 2014
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Getting Tough On Traffic Violence, Pennsylvania-Style

By BicycleLaw Blog, Cyclist Fatalities 3 Comments

By Rick Bernardi, J.D.

Two years ago, Frank J. Aritz, Jr. was riding his bike in State College, Pennsylvania. It was after midnight when he rode past a marked police cruiser and shouted something that was unintelligible to the officer. …

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Jun 19 2013
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Words Escape Me

By BicycleLaw Blog, Cyclist Fatalities No Comments

By Rick Bernardi

What does one say, in the middle of the night, when once again, a cyclist lays dead and our system of injustice gives us its grotesque pro formaritual of shifting the blame to the cyclist, and …

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Jun 04 2013
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The Truth Emerges

By BicycleLaw Blog, Cyclist Fatalities 3 Comments

It was a summer evening, the last night of August nearly four years ago,when two worlds violently collided on Toronto’s posh Bloor Street. In the aftermath, a cyclist lay dead, and the driver he clashed with stood accused of …

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Jul 26 2011
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Sending A Message

By BicycleLaw Blog, Cyclist Fatalities One Comment

“It sends the wrong message.”

That’s how Denise Hudson described a decision by the Supreme Court of South Australia’s to slash the sentence of the careless driver who killed her husband.

Some backstory: In March of last year, cyclist Chris …

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Jul 02 2010
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An Unprosecuted Murder In Lebanon, Pennsylvania

By BicycleLaw Blog, Cyclist Fatalities No Comments

This blog post by Joseph Wade was re-posted here to preserve and archive this blog post.

Originally posted on July 2, 2010 – artspace629

An Unprosecuted Murder in Lebanon, Pennsylvania

Non-fiction

A Review of the Case Concerning the Murder of …

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Jun 01 2010
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Executive Summary Of The Withdrawal Of Charges In The Michael Bryant Case

By BicycleLaw Blog, Cyclist Fatalities No Comments

Executive Summary

On Tuesday, May 25, Richard Peck, the special prosecutor appointed to try former Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant on charges involving the death of Toronto messenger Darcy Allan Sheppard, withdrew the charges against Bryant, noting that “there is …

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