Driver in last year’s hit-and-run Seattle bicyclist fatality pleads guilty
The motorist charged with killing Seattle bicycle rider Michael Wang last summer faces up to three years and five months in prison after pleading guilty to felony hit-and-run on Tuesday. The man, Erlin...
View Article3 bike travelers hit by truck in Georgia; 1 dead
Sad news from Georgia where three bicycle touring friends in their 60s were hit by a tractor-trailer rig on Thursday morning. The three were nearing the end of a two-year, 6,000-mile bike adventure...
View ArticleCyclist dies from injuries at RAMROD bike ride
A Tacoma cyclist has died from injuries he suffered when he crashed on a downhill stretch of the 152-mile Ride Around Mount Rainier in One Day (RAMROD) bike ride last week. The cyclist, Steve Albers,...
View ArticleMan sentenced for 2011 hit-and-run of bicyclist in Seattle
A King County judge sentenced a motorist to 3 years and 5 months in prison on Friday for felony hit and run in the death of bicyclist Michael Wang. That’s the maximum penalty that prosecutors had...
View ArticleArizona cyclist dies after falling from bridge in LOTOJA bike race
Sad news from the 206-mile LOTOJA bicycle race where a 42-year-old Arizona man swerved to miss a pothole, lost control of his bicycle, and catapulted off a bridge 35 feet to his death in the Snake...
View ArticleBicyclist dies in collision in Snohomish County (WA) (UPDATE)
View Brier bicyclist fatality in a larger map Snohomish Sheriff's deputies are investigating the death of a bicyclist in the Brier area after a collision with a pickup truck. Few details are available...
View ArticleCalifornians remember two bicyclists killed in traffic; fund drive open
More than 1,200 cyclists took to the streets in Newport Beach on Sunday in a memorial bike ride for two bicycle riders killed in separate crashes in September. The two, Dr. Catherine “Kit” Campion Ritz...
View ArticleBoston struggles with string of bicycle fatalities
Boston bicyclists are mourning the fifth traffic fatality among members of their growing community this week. On Thursday morning, a Boston University grad student was killed in a bicycle-truck...
View ArticleEndurance cyclist dies in head-on collision
We’re saddened by the news of another bicyclist death in Snohomish County last weekend. According to reports, endurance cyclist Jerry Shafer, 65, of Kent was struck and killed Saturday morning by an...
View ArticleBicyclist fatalities, injuries rose again in 2012
Grim news for bicyclists (and all road users) from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: 726 bicyclists died in collisions with motor vehicles in 2012. The bicyclist fatalities in traffic...
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