“Accidents”
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Mandeville Canyon Road Rage Doctor Trial Set for 9/17
Thanks to DJ Wheels via Twitter and Midnight Ridazz.
July 8, 2009
Help Roadblock Find the Driver Who Hit Him and Fled
Late Monday night, "Roadblock" one of the most prominent of the Midnight Ridazz, was rear-ended and left in the street during a hit-and-run assault on Glendale Blvd. As he wrote on Midnight Ridazz:
May 20, 2009
Cyclists Pedal to Police Commission and Inspector General to Demand Equal Rights
For as long as I've been in Los Angeles, there has been a side bar on the Midnight Ridazz official website which reads:
April 28, 2009
Attorney for Rapper who Beat and Ran Over Ped: These Things Happen
Attorneys for David Jassy, the Swedish rapper who beat and ran over jazz pianist James Osnes for touching his SUV which was waiting in the crosswalk that Osnes was trying to cross, came up with a strategy designed to sway someone who a) believes that crashes where cars hit and kill pedestrians are unavoidable and b) is incredibly gullible.
April 27, 2009
Who Acted Worse? The Hummer Driver or the LAPD?
For anyone that doesn't think there's a bias against cyclists from the Los Angeles Police Department, they should check out this first hand report from Dr. Alex Thompson at Westside BikeSIDE of a hummer running through a group of cyclists from behind multiple times, putting some of them in the hospital, dragging a bike several blocks and then having the LAPD officers on the scene bizarrely blame the cyclists.
April 27, 2009
On Fountain and LaBrea, a Ghost Bike Appears
Yesterday morning, the sun rose on the corner of La Brea and Fountain to a new occupant on the street corner. A Ghost Bike had been erected by a group of bike activists to memorialize two pedestrians, one of whom may have been walking her bike across the street, who "lost their lives to a motorist" on March 31 while walking their bikes across the street.
April 22, 2009
LADOT, USC Plan Changes for Crosswalk at Jefferson and Hoover
Following the outcry after two USC students were run down in the Crosswalk at Hoover and Jefferson, the parents of one of the students, the one who was slain, demanded that the city "fix" this intersection. Some Streetsblog readers noted that this intersection already has one of the safest designs, a Scramble-crosswalk. Given that pedestrians are being mowed down throughout the city, is the LADOT really going to focus on this one intersection?
April 16, 2009
Family of Slain USC Student: Fix L.A. Intersections!
Last weekend, the lives of a family were changed forever, when a distracted driver decided that shaving a couple of seconds of off the trip home for his family was more important than making sure he protected other users of the road. He plowed through the intersection of Jefferson and Hoover, killing USC freshman Adriana Bachan and maiming her companion.
April 9, 2009
It’s No Accident
What if news articles of shootings, stabbings and other deaths used
the same language normally employed to describe traffic collisions?
Today on the Streetsblog Network, David Alpert of Greater Greater Washington
points to media coverage of a crash in Culpeper County, VA, as an
example of our tendency to view traffic violence as an immutable force
of nature.
March 24, 2009
Road Rage Dr. Thompson Arraigned on 7 Counts (Updated)
Stephen Box spent the morning at the La Cienega Courthouse to bring us the news on the progress of the trial for Dr. Christopher Thompson, the "road-rage" doctor that allegedly tried to kill a pair of experienced cyclists on July 4th for riding two abreast on a two-lane road. For those of you that are unfamiliar with the story, click here for all the details. For those that want to read about the charges Thompson will face, read on.
January 15, 2009