Bicycle Accidents

At least one SoMa intersection will become safer for cyclists. The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition recently announced that right-turn enforcement has finally been installed at the intersection of Market and Octavia. This will help catch drivers who decide to make illegal right turns onto the freeway.

A male cyclist was killed this morning in a cycling accident at the intersection of Bryant, Division and 11th Streets.

The former chief financial officer of Amazon.com was killed in a bicycle accident last Wednesday. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that 50-year-old Joy Covey was riding her bike in Woodside, California, when she was killed.

In our last post we discussed the mounting pressure that San Francisco’s biking community was placing on the SFPD after the death of a 24-year-old biker. Members of the San Francisco Bike Coalition were appalled by the lack of investigation in the death of Amelie Le Moullac and independently found surveillance footage depicting the crash.

The San Francisco Streets blog recently blasted the SFPD for failing to fully investigate the death of 24-year-old Amelie Le Moullac The young woman was killed two weeks ago when a truck driver made a right-turn into the biker on Folsom and Sixth early that morning.

A 37-year-old San Francisco cyclist was sentenced to three years of probation and 1,000 hours of community service for fatally striking an elderly pedestrian.

A 37-year-old San Francisco cyclist was recently convicted of vehicular manslaughter for causing the wrongful death of an elderly pedestrian. Authorities say that the cyclist was racing through the intersection of Market and Castro when he hit a 71-year-old man.

In our last post we discussed a San Francisco bicycle accident which left a 21-year-old cyclist dead. This is the second recent accident to involve Recology garbage truck.

A 21-year-old Clayton man was recently killed in a Mission District bicycle accident. Authorities say that the man was biking shortly before 7 a.m. yesterday morning when he was run over by a Recology garbage truck driving in the same direction. The truck reportedly began making a turn from 16th Street onto South Van Ness.

California streets are becoming more dangerous for cyclists, according to recent data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. There were 677 bicyclist deaths in 2011, which is a 9 percent jump from the 623 cyclists killed in 2010. Cyclist deaths accounted for 2 percent of the traffic fatalities nationwide but were 4 percent of