News on Pedestrian and Bike Hits around San Diego, July-Dec 2018
89-Year-Old Pedestrian Hit by Ford F-150 Pickup in Downtown San Diego
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Pedestrian hit by SUV involved in collision in Grant Hill
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Cycling Advocate Roberta Walker Seriously Injured by Truck While Riding in Encinitas
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65-Year-Old Pedestrian Hit by Car Downtown, Suffers Fractured Hip
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Pedestrian hit by minivan near Rancho Peñasquitos intersection
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Woman Struck, Seriously Injured While Riding Bicycle on a Vista Street
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Pedestrian Struck by Car at Chollas Creek Intersection
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Pedestrian Killed on Route 54 in Chula Vista
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Man arrested in hit-and-run crash that left 57-year-old pedestrian dead
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3 Killed, 8 Injured in High-Speed I-8 Freeway Crash Near Boulevard
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Bicyclist Suffers Severe Head Injury in Collision with SUV in Bay Terraces
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Jaywalking Pedestrian Seriously Injured in San Ysidro
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Pedestrian hit by car in San Ysidro transported to hospital with life-threatening injuries
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Pedestrian Struck, Seriously Injured By Pickup at Midway District Intersection
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Crash Kills MCRD Drill Instructor Who Saved 2 Women in September
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72-Year-Old Pedestrian Seriously Injured in Linda Vista Crash
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Man Breaks Jaw After Falling Off Scooter Downtown
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Pedestrian Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver on Rosecrans Street in Pt. Loma
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Woman Hit, Severely Injured in Linda Vista Crosswalk
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2 Seriously Hurt When SUV Runs Red Light in Carmel Mountain
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2 Pedestrians Struck by Cars at Same Point on Poway Roadway
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Pedestrian Struck, Killed by Van While Crossing San Ysidro Street
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Jaywalking Pedestrian Seriously Injured Near San Diego State University
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Vehicle Crashes into SDFD Station in La Jolla
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Pedestrian Killed on Imperial Avenue by Hit-and-Run Driver
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Woman struck by hit-run vehicle, dies in Encanto
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Woman Killed in Encanto Hit-and-Run
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Woman Died After Crash with Boy, 17, in Rancho Bernardo
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Pedestrian killed near busy intersection in Encinitas
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Woman Run Over While Helping People in Crash on SR-94
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Woman Killed After Stopping to Help Crash Victims on Route 94
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Authorities ID Drivers Killed in Wrong-way Crash Near Rainbow
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6-Year Term for DUI Driver Whose Tree Crash Killed Passenger in Escondido
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Huge backup on west I-8 after multi-vehicle crash near I-5
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3 Children Killed in Crash at School Bus Stop in Indiana
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Poway school bus drivers report danger on San Diego roads
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Minor injuries reported in pedestrian crash near Balboa Park's Haunted Trail
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Rollover Crash Backs Up Traffic on I-5 in Encinitas
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MTS bus driver hospitalized after three-vehicle crash in Mountain View
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Three injured in possible drunk driving crash in Sorrento Valley
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3 Hurt After Car Crashes Off Freeway Into Embankment
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Wrong-Way Driver Kills Himself and Another Driver on Interstate 15
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Pedestrian Struck, Killed By Vehicle on Freeway Off-Ramp in National City
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Man hit with Taser, arrested following road-rage incident in University Heights
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Woman Seriously Injured in Solo Golden Hill Scooter Crash
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Two injured in Logan Heights crash involving trolley
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Driver dies after running red light, slamming into car at San Diego intersection
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Two Men Crash on Electric Scooters Near Buca di Beppo Downtown
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Woman Killed in Fallbrook Hit-and-Run
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Sleeping Driver Hits Row of Parked Cars in Kensington
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Pedestrian struck, rescued from underneath vehicle near I-805 on-ramp
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To Get Drivers to Yield to Pedestrians, St. Paul is Using Psychological Tricks
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Pedestrian dies after being hit by car in Oak Park
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Pedestrian Struck, Killed By Car While Attempting to Cross Street in Oak Park
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San Diego proposing crackdown on Segway tour companies after $1.7 million payout
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Woman Struck, Killed by Pickup While Crossing Street in Rancho Bernardo
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Woman struck, seriously injured while crossing street in El Cerrito
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Pedestrian dies after being struck by truck in Rancho Bernardo
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Woman hit by car while crossing El Cajon Boulevard; police say she has life-threatening injuries
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Car Hits Pedestrian, Major Injuries Near Rancho Bernardo HS
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Jeff Speck: For a Walkable City, Remove Centerlines on Local Streets
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Woman hit by car while crossing El Cajon Boulevard; police say she has life-threatening injuries
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Pedestrian Unconscious After Being Hit By Car in El Cerrito
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Experts: Feds Aren’t Fixing Pedestrian Safety Crisis
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Man Hit, Seriously Injured Crossing Garnet Avenue to Catch an Uber
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San Diego woman who was hit by car in her wheelchair needs help to buy van
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Skateboarder who ran red light hit by vehicle in Imperial Beach
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So, Self-Driving Cars Could Make Humans Unhealthier Than Ever
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Driver Suspected of Hitting Boy on Bike, Taking Off in Court
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Pedestrian Struck, Killed in San Ysidro by Teenager Driving Mustang
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Pedestrian Killed by Car in San Ysidro
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Hit-and-Run Victim Upset After DA Declines To Charge 82-Year-Old Driver
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65-Year-Old Woman Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver in Jamul
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76-Year-Old Woman Killed Crossing Encinitas Street
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Woman killed in Jamul hit-and-run
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Driver Almost Hits Pedestrian, Then Shoots Him After Fight in Del Cerro
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Man shot in arm while fighting motorist who almost struck him
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Boy Riding Bicycle Seriously Injured by Hit-and-Run Driver in El Cajon
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Pedestrian Seriously Injured by Hit-and-Run Driver in Pacific Beach
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Wheels: 2-Second Rule for Distracted Driving Can Mean Life or Death
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CHP Hands Out 88 Pedestrian Citations in Single Day During South County Operation
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Teenage Cyclist Hit by Car Has Long Road to Recovery: Father
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San Diego Sees 80% Increase in Distracted Driving Tickets
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Safety Board Responds to Ped Crash Crisis
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Woman, 60, struck by hit-run driver in San Ysidro
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Elderly Woman Struck By Hit-and-Run Motorist in San Ysidro
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E-Scooter Deaths Show Urgent Need for Safer Streets
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Man Injured Running Through Traffic on Oceanside Boulevard
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Bicyclist injured in Chollas View hit-and-run
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Bicyclist Seriously Injured by Hit-and-Run Driver in Chollas View
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Bicyclist injured in Chollas View hit-and-run collision
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Pedestrian Hurt in Chollas View Hit-and-Run
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The Stubborn Bike Commuter Gap Between American Cities
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Woman struck and killed by car on Chula Vista street
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Man in Wheelchair Seriously Injured by Hit-and-Run Driver in El Cajon
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Car Takes Off After Hitting Man in Wheelchair: El Cajon PD
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SEE IT! Video Shows Bus Driver Killing Citi Bike Rider
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Bicyclist Dies After Being Hit by Truck in Chula Vista
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73-year-old surveyor fatally struck by car in Emerald Hills is ID'd
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Escondido Toddler Run Over by Truck, Died
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Skateboarder Killed Running After Board into Traffic in Mission Bay
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Motorcyclist Critically Injured by Hit-and-Run Driver in BMW Sedan
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Surveyor struck and killed in Emerald Hills crash
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Car Hits, Kills 73-Year-Old Surveyor in Emerald Hills
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Self-Driving Car Developers Should Put Pedestrians First
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Report finds violent crime in San Diego still well below record high, but on the rise
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Scooters and app-rented bicycles prompt new San Diego panel focused on mobility solutions
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Violent Crime Rose in San Diego for 4th Consecutive Year, But Remains Low
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CHP recommends driver who fatally struck cycling professor face misdemeanor manslaughter charge
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Survey: Women More Likely to Prefer Separated Bike Infrastructure
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San Diego paying out nearly $1M to settle falling tree, cracked sidewalk injury suits
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Pedestrian Suffers Minor Injuries in East Village Hit-and-Run
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Musical Memorial Held for Mother, Daughter Killed on I-805
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Bicyclist, 14, Critically Injured by Motorist in Escondido
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Car turns into path of motorcycle in Grantville, crash seriously injures rider
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Pedestrian dies after being hit by San Diego police car
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Pedestrian Dies After Being Hit by SDPD Patrol Car: Police
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Car Strikes Pedestrian on Carlsbad Blvd.
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Man on Scooter Gets Hit by Car in Gaslamp
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Deputies Make Second Arrest in Hit and Run That Killed Grandmother
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The Silence After the Hit-and-Run
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Pedestrian struck, killed on I-5 in Chula Vista
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Pedestrian Struck, Killed on NB I-5 in Chula Vista
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Teen Jailed in Serious-Injury Hit-Run Crash in Santee
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CHP Reports Pedestrian Struck, Killed on Interstate 5 in Chula Vista
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San Diego Police to Increase Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Enforcement
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Seriously Injured Hit-And-Run Victim Not Expected to Survive
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2 Seriously Injured in Hit and Run Following Street Fight in Santee
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Jogger struck and killed in Lakeside, suspected drunken driver arrested
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Suspected DUI Driver Kills Jogger in Lakeside
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Speeding Driver Killed When Mazda Hits Street Lamp in Mira Mesa
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Man suspected of drunken driving hits, injures Caltrans contractors on I-15
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Motorcyclist Hits, Kills 83-Year-Old Woman Crossing Street in Mira Mesa
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Woman Hit, Killed by Motorcyclist in Mira Mesa
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Woman, 83, struck and killed while crossing street near Mira Mesa High School
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Sacramento Police Video: This Was No Safety Stop
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Pedestrian Struck, Killed by Car on I-5 in National City
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CA: Are Dockless Bikes on Their Way Out as Electric Scooters Surge?
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Pedestrian, 60, Hit by Prius and Seriously Injured in Carlsbad
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Pedestrian Seriously Injured in Collision in Carlsbad
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Skateboarder Seriously Injured by Hit-and-Run Driver in Bay Park
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Driver Takes Off After Striking Skateboarder in Bay Park
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Two students, parent hit by vehicle, injured at Escondido middle school
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Pacific Surfliner Train Hits, Kills Pedestrian in Oceanside
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The Real E-Scooters Story Is Much More Boring Than Media Coverage Suggests
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Gruesome, deadly DUI crash draws 15-years-to-life sentence for driver
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Daniel Juarez, 25, Held on Suspicion of Killing Pedestrian in Ramona Hit-Run
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Authorities Identify Bicyclist Killed in Rancho San Diego Crash
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Hit-Run Crash Kills Pedestrian on Encinitas Freeway Off-Ramp
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Driver, 20, Turns Self in for Pedestrian Fatality in Ocean Crest
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Pedestrian killed in apparent hit-and-run in Ramona
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Pedestrian Killed in Hit-and-Run Crash on Santee Commercial Street
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Woman killed in apparent hit and run in Santee
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Man Struck in Oceanside Hit and Run Dies
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Sleeping man crushed under car dies in Hillcrest
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Pedestrian struck, killed on north I-805 in Sorrento Valley
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After Recent Deaths, Bike East Bay Renews Call for Safety Fixes
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Man sleeping in front of apartment parking garage in Hillcrest run over by car and killed
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How Lazy Coverage of Pedestrian Deaths Obscures Why Streets Are So Dangerous
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Teenage girl struck, killed while walking across I-5 north of Oceanside
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Cyclist hospitalized, driver jailed in Vista hit-and-run
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Pedestrian killed in South Bay remembered as friendly, caring and athletic Navy veteran
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Woman Struck in Costa Verde Center Parking Lot Remains Hospitalized
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Man Arrested in Fatal Oceanside Hit-and-Run Crash
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Woman Killed While Crossing Street in Lakeside
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One pedestrian killed, another critically hurt in separate weekend crashes
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Woman Hit by Car in University City Parking Lot Suffers Life-Threatening Injuries
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Bicyclist Killed in Early Morning Rancho San Diego Crash
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Cyclist struck by car in Casa de Oro dies
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Actually, Curbing Uber Won’t Relieve Heavy Traffic
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Scooter Company Bird Offers to Pay Cities to Build Bike Lanes
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Pedestrian Struck, Injured by Big Rig on Freeway near Oceanside
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Body found in Pacific Beach, authorities believe woman was hit, killed by car
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Pedestrian Struck, Killed by Vehicle in South Bay
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Pedestrian hit, killed on south San Diego street
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CHP seeks hit-and-run SUV in pedestrian's freeway death
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Woman Run Over by Car in Pacific Beach, Dies at Scene
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Authorities identify bicyclist killed on SR-163 in Kearny Mesa
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Authorities Identify Bicyclist Killed on State Route 163 in Kearny Mesa
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Authorities Searching for SUV Driver Who Struck, Killed Woman in Jamul
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Authorities ID bicyclist killed on state Route 163 in Kearny Mesa
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SUV driver in fatal hit-and-run sought in Jamul
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Bicyclist Riding on Freeway Suffers Major Injuries in Early Morning Crash
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Bicyclist, 53, Suffers Major Injuries in Collision on Kearny Mesa Highway
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San Diego passes plan for bicycles, critics say it lacks deadlines or even timelines
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Planning Groups Block City’s Vision Zero, Climate Action Plans
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Pedestrian Seriously Injured by Car on El Camino Real in Carlsbad
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Possible road rage crash leaves 6 hurt, 2 seriously
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Woman hit and killed by car in Vista
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Authorities Identify Bicyclist Killed by Truck in El Cajon
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Woman killed in suspected Golden Hill hit-run crash was 19
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Ocean Beach hit-run driver apologizes to victim, gets year in custody
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Woman Walking on Vista Street Struck and Killed by Car
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Pedestrian struck, killed in Vista
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Unknown person killed in crash identified soon after sketch made public
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Authorities ID bicyclist struck and killed in El Cajon
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Another Pedestrian Killed at Sloat and 36th
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Bicyclist Suffers Critical Injuries When Hit By Truck in El Cajon
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Pedestrian Killed by SUV on Interstate 805 in Lincoln Park Area
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Drunken Woman Crashes Car, Runs Around it Naked and Screaming in Kearny Mesa
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Man Struck, Seriously Injured by Car in Spring Valley
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Pride festival hit-run suspect leads police pursuit to La Mesa
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Cities Are Replacing Dangerous Slip Lanes With Space for People
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Spencer Fast, Nearly Killed While Riding his Bike, in his Own Words
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CA Bill No Longer Redefines E-scooters, But Removes Helmet Requirements for Over-18
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Woman Walking in Traffic on Route 94 Struck and Killed
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Marin Motorist Receives Light Sentence for Running Down Cyclists
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Bicyclist Suffers Serious Injuries in Collision with SUV in Lemon Grove
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Suspect in Teen Jogger’s Hit-and-Run Death Surrenders to Chula Vista Police
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No, “Drunk Walking” Is Not Causing the Rise in Pedestrian Deaths
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Bicyclist Seriously Injured in Crash Near UCSD
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Pedestrian Seriously Injured in Oceanside Hit-and-Run Crash
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Man Struck, Killed on I-8 Business Road in Lakeside
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2 Killed in Roadways in First 12 Hours of Fourth of July Holiday
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Flying Couch Causes Multi-Car Crash on I-805 in Chula Vista
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Fatal Crash on State Route 76 involved Second Vehicle
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Driver and Passenger of Overturned Car Suffer Minor Injuries in Spring Valley
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Police Search for 2 Drivers in Separate Hit-and-Run Crashes in El Cajon
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BMW Driver Running Red Light Hits Bicyclist Downtown and Flees
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Three Killed on Local Freeways Early Saturday Morning
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Teenage Bicyclist Injured in Collision with Car
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Bicyclist Injured During Early Morning Accident in Downtown San Diego
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Juvenile Bicyclist Injured in Bay Terraces Crash
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La Mesa Crash Leaves Pedestrian With Life-Threatening Injuries
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Injured Hit-Run Victim Found Hours After Being Struck
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San Diego paying out $1.7M for Segway injury on La Jolla street
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Woman Struck by SUV in Normal Heights, Gravely Injured
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Is San Diego Ready for California's Climate Protection Act?
State planning officials have been working to change the way traffic impacts are analyzed, from level of service (LOS), a car centric measurement, to vehicle miles traveled (VMT), a multi-modal measurement, pursuant to the recently passed Senate Bill 743.
But is our San Diego region traffic planning world and local jurisdictions really ready to implement the change? It appears the answer is “no” for the most part, but they should be. With the adoption of SB 743, known as the “Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act,” the legislative intent is clear… “to encourage land use and transportation planning decisions and investments that reduce vehicle miles traveled and contribute to the reductions in greenhouse gas emissions...” The connection between vehicles miles traveled and the reduction of greenhouse gases is important to California where the main source of greenhouse gas emissions is from vehicles
In order to achieve our climate action goals, we must drive less, which means we need to carefully locate development so that driving is not the primary mode of transportation. New development needs to be located near transit, bicycle, and pedestrian facilities. There is no better way to consider location than tracking how far people must travel to and from said location, in other words, tracking VMT.
Here is why it is important for jurisdictions—rural and urban—to adopt the new VMT standards:
- First and foremost, because it will be the law of the land.
- Second, to start highlighting—with meaningful data—the locational concerns of proposed projects.
- Third, to extract multi-modal mitigation (actual physical improvements) from project developers.
This last one is important. With VMT measured impacts we can start to build actual multi-modal mitigation projects—improved bike lanes, sidewalks, and connections to transit—as a result of new development impacts. Currently, impacts to LOS only require development projects to fix or improve roads to mitigate for traffic conflicts. This shift is a very real opportunity to fund multi-modal improvements by those who are doing the developing. Mitigation where it matters! To build better sidewalks, connections to transit, and bicycle facilities. This is especially important for the City of San Diego which has just completed several Community Plan Updates and is embarking on several more. These documents are laying out future development and how those future impacts are being mitigated for . . . do we want to think in terms of mitigation for cars and delays on the roads (e.g. wider roads) or for land uses that reduce the need for those same cars on the roads?
While the state planning officials have not yet published final VMT implementation guidance, the expectation is that these guidelines are forthcoming in January of 2017. There have already been two Draft guidance documents released by OPR. The state is close. The cities of Oakland, San Francisco, and Pasadena have had the foresight and determination to adopt VMT metrics. We look forward to our local jurisdictions approaching this new requirement with the same vigor and eagerness. Let’s get going San Diego!
Foto Friday: If you build bicycle infrastructure, they will like it
It's been a while since we posted anything under the "Foto Friday" category, but some of you miss it so hopefully this will be back in regular rotation again.
From the People for Bikes blog, good news about the Calgary bike lane network - which isn't too dissimilar from what's being proposed as part of the Downtown Mobility Plan here in San Diego.
The city of Calgary, "piloted a connected downtown network of low-stress bike routes all at once."
the results have been large and almost immediate. Weekday bike counts on the affected corridors soared 95 percent in September 2015, three months after the network opened, compared to the year before. The proportion of those riders who were female jumped from 20 percent to 27 percent, and younger people are reportedly riding downtown more, too.
They say, women are an indicator species for a bicycle friendly city and so Calgary seems to be moving along to becoming a bicycle friendly city.
And to think that the bike network almost didn't come to fruition:
Despite a very close city council vote to create the network, once the public saw it in action, 64 percent decided they approve.
And on this cold and somewhat rainy day here in San Diego, perhaps we can appreciate the woman in the photo above riding on Calgary's (still new) protected bike lane network and imagine how neat it would be if we could get that here too.
Study: Cost of driving a car is six times higher that riding a bicycle
The cost of driving a vehicle is six times higher than the cost of riding a bicycle – that's the conclusion of a March 2015 meta-analysis. Coupled with the fact that most American highways are financial losers, we should be looking for alternatives to the personal automobile, especially for personal transportation.
While there have been many U.S. studies focusing on the financial benefits of bicycling versus driving, many of those studies have focused on vehicle operating costs. The March 2015 meta-analysis titled “Transport transitions in Copenhagen: Comparing the cost of cars and bicycles”, by Stefan Gössling and Andy S. Choi, focused on how Copenhagen is prioritizing the bicycle as a transportation mode. The study looked at how Copenhagen is planning to boost funding for bicycle infrastructure all while making quantified goals to reduce serious injury rates and expanding their bicycle infrastructure network.
In San Diego, in casual conversation with a cycling sympathetic audience, time and personal discomfort (being sweaty) is often listed as a reason for why cycling will not be able to compete with the personal automobile as a travel mode. Gössling and Choi includes those San Diego concerns and analyzed it alongside other societal costs that arise from investments made to promote driving versus bicycling.
The study looked at vehicle operating costs, time cost, accident cost, cost of air pollution, climate change, noise, congestion, road deterioration, life expectancy, perceived safety, and branding and tourism and concluded that driving a vehicle cost six times more that riding a bicycle.
Danish policy makers were quoted as being “particularly keen to increase the share of cyclists, as this transport mode incurs a wide range of benefits compared to vehicles with internal combustion engines, such as comparably high speeds, minimum area requirements both with regard to tracks and parking, as well as no pollution, fewer accidents, and considerable health benefits.”
The authors of the study do acknowledge that the Danish approach does have limitations in that some aspects of a cost benefit analysis cannot put a financial cost to discomfort or the effects of injuries or death such as post-traumatic stress disorder or depression. But the authors do state that such a cost benefit analysis “can be a useful methodology to investigate advantages and disadvantages of bicycle projects, which are essential to foster bicycle cultures, i.e., lasting and significant changes in transport cultures.” Thus this approach can be important in making an economic justification in making investments to supporting and increasing cycling. All of this is part of Denmark's capital city to become world's best city for cyclists’ along with becoming a “leading ‘eco-metropolis’”.
With Euro 33.61 million invested to improve cycling in the city in 2013 alone, Copenhagen is well on their way to making that vision a reality.
Thank you to BikeSD member Julie G. for sending in this study!
Florida DOT Study Reconfirms Ian Walker's Conclusions
In Traffic, Tom Vanderbilt detailed the study performed by U.K. based researcher, Ian Walker, on passing distance and driving behavior around cyclists based on gender. On his blog, Vanderbilt summarized the study,
To briefly summarize, in his study (published as “Drivers overtaking bicyclists: Objective data on the effects of riding position, helmet use, vehicle type and apparent gender,” in the journal Accident Analysis and Prevention), Walker outfitted a bike with a device that measured the distance of passing cars. He found, among other things, that drivers tended to pass more closely when he was wearing a helmet than when not (he was struck by vehicles twice, both while wearing a helmet).
This was a surprising, somewhat controversial finding that generated a lot of news coverage. To my mind, Walker’s findings were more interesting for what they said about interpersonal psychology on the road than safety itself; mostly because I felt, and Walker seems to agree, that the primary question of bicycle safety had less to do with the helmet than other factors.
In a Florida DOT commissioned study [pdf] published last month, researchers reached a very similar conclusion. Although the study didn't specifically address helmet usage, the researchers found that their data was consistent with Walker's conclusions when it came to how closely drivers passed bicyclists based on the bicyclist's gender and attire. The study found that on average, drivers passed cyclists more closely when cyclists were dressed in "bicycle attire" and if the cyclist was male. The study was unable to determine the reasons on this passing behavior and the authors of the study speculated that, "it [was] possible that motorists perceived less risk passing riders who were in [a] bicycle outfit."
I suppose effective measures that can be made as a result of the Florida study would be to encourage cyclists to ride in casual clothing rather than bicycle-specific attire. As for the conclusion on passing distance based on the cyclist's gender, perhaps it is for the best given that men typically outnumber women on the roads.