Category: Safety

Making cycling and walking safe, convenient and fun in Delaware

Lockman: Cut traffic deaths on Delaware roads below 100 by 2025

Joined by Senator Hansen, Representative Osienski and a dozen of her colleagues, State Senator Elizabeth Lockman recently introduced legislation calling for Delaware to reduce annual traffic fatalities below 100 by 2025. “Traffic deaths have remained roughly constant in Delaware over the last 20 years, averaging over 120 fatalities each year,” Senator Lockman noted. “As Chair…
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April 28, 2022 0

Human fallibility is inevitable (but traffic deaths aren’t)

We are, all of us, fallible. Being human means we make mistakes. But we believe, with Secretary Buttigieg, that we should not build systems where making a mistake means death. In fact, we’ll go farther than that: we think building systems where people die when they make mistakes (and then calling those deaths inevitable) is immoral. As of…
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April 20, 2022 0

In God we trust. (All others bring data.)

By James WilsonExecutive Director | Bike Delaware The Cape Gazette and WRDE Coast TV both report: Delaware’s safe yielding law for cyclists is “controversial” in Lewes. I saw that controversy for myself a couple of weeks ago when I testified to the Mayor and Council of the City of Lewes, who had put Delaware’s safe…
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February 26, 2021 3

SLIDESHOW: The Two Factors Driving U.S. Pedestrian Fatalities

Last year 32 people were killed in Delaware for this “crime”: they were walking in the wrong place at the wrong time Very few of those deaths received any coverage in any Delaware media in 2019 beyond a short article with a few sentences paraphrasing a police report. So those 32 shattered families grieved in…
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October 1, 2020 0

Taking a Hard Look at the “Surge” of Lewes Area Bicycle Crashes

Early last month Beebe Hospital issued a press release reporting an increase in serious injuries from bicycle crashes in May and June in its emergency department for those months compared to 2018. Local press outlets in Sussex County ran with the story, not infrequently choosing alarming headlines like the one above. Other than that they…
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August 7, 2019 0

Delaware Office of Highway Safety Agrees to Probe “Surge” in Lewes Area Bicycle Crashes

“Beebe Reports Surge in Serious Bicycle Injuries” Early last month Beebe Hospital issued a press release reporting an increase in serious injuries from bicycle crashes in May and June in its emergency department for those months compared to 2018. Local press outlets in Sussex County ran with the story, not infrequently choosing alarming headlines like…
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August 1, 2019 1

Why Delaware Kills So Many Pedestrians Every Year and What We Can Do About It

Every single year in Delaware between two to three dozen people are struck and killed by motor vehicles while walking. Between 2008 and 2017, that made Delaware the second deadliest state in America (pedestrian fatalities per capita) for pedestrians (behind only Florida ). We can do something about all this unnecessary death and grief, and…
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January 28, 2019 1

Decisive Win for Bicycle Friendly Delaware Act in Delaware House of Representatives

With victory in the House, the fate of the Bicycle Friendly Delaware Act is now with the Delaware Senate: Keep Me Informed In Case I Can Help If you would like us to keep you informed about the progress of this legislation and let you know if it needs your help, fill in the form…
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June 23, 2017 1

Key Committee Vote Advances Bicycle Friendly Delaware Act

One vote down. Three more to go. Two votes down. Two more to go. UPDATE: Delaware House of Representatives Decisively Backs Bicycle Friendly Delaware Act abc   Keep Me Informed In Case I Can Help The Bicycle Friendly Delaware Act has bipartisan support in the Delaware General Assembly and was just reported out – unanimously…
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June 8, 2017 0

Mitchell and Sokola Sponsor Bicycle Friendly Delaware Act

Keep Me Informed In Case I Can Help The Bicycle Friendly Delaware Act has bipartisan support in the Delaware General Assembly and we are cautiously optimistic about its passage. But politics is often surprising. If you would like us to keep you informed about the progress of this legislation and let you know if it…
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June 6, 2017 0