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Another Shocking Cyclist Collision
5 Comments | Posted by Mike in Bryant, Toronto, cycling deaths
By this point, it’s pretty safe to assume that most people have heard about Monday’s incident between former Ontario cabinet minister Michael Bryant and courier Darcy Sheppard. Details as to what exactly happened, or at least what started it all, are still being sorted out, but the Star seems to have a pretty good initial [...]
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7 People
6 Comments | Posted by Adam in Gatineau, Ottawa, commuting, cycling deaths, law, safety
This is the number of cyclists who have been taken to hospital since Saturday morning due to collisions with vehicles. 5 cyclists were hit on Saturday morning in a hit and run on March Road in Kanata, on Tuesday night a man was hit on Ogilvie Road and on Wednesday morning a man in Gatineua [...]
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Who’s being silly?
0 Comments | Posted by Padraic in cycling deaths, other cities, police, winter
I bike TO notes the public response and eventual apology after a Waterloo Region police sergeant had this to say after a 34-year-old father of four was hit from behind, and killed, by a car, while cycling on a dry country road and full of reflectors:
Riding a bike with weather conditions like this, it seems [...]
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The rule of law
2 Comments | Posted by Padraic in Toronto, cycling deaths, legislation, police
A few months ago, I was reading Advocacy and Respect for Cyclists’ primer on “Cyclists and the Law” and was surprised to learn that the Ontario Highway Traffic Act contains a provision to prohibit parked motorists from ‘dooring’ cyclists, or others:
165. No person shall, (a) open the door of a motor vehicle on a highway [...]
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Right-Turn Tragedies
3 Comments | Posted by Mike in Toronto, bike lanes, commuting, cycling deaths
Spacing had a nice piece this week marking the anniversary of the death of Ryan Carriere, who was killed by a truck in 2005. Carriere was killed on his bicycle by a right-turning truck.
Now, I take the Bay street bike path to work every day, and this sort of thing pretty much represents my biggest [...]
The Ottawa Citizen reports that a guilty plea has been entered for the charge of impaired driving causing death in the August 28th death of 17-year-old cyclist Marie-Hélène Primeau in Gatineau.
