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Article #56Re: SF Bicyclist runs red light, seriously injures pedestrian
From: Robert Neff
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:22
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:22
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On my daily ride through Sunnyvale, Mountain View, and Palo Alto I continue to observe about 20% of individual cyclists will violate a traffic signal, I assume because they think it is wasted time and the stop is safely avoided. A small fraction of these are running red lights without stopping. I count any behavior which you would not consider in a car, like stopping, then going against a red when there is no traffic, the right turn/u-turn/right turn maneuver, and running the red across the top of a T. -- Robert jcdill wrote: > I was driving north on Embarcadero about a week after this incident, > stopped at a red light, and a bike sped past me on the right and ran the > light - within a few blocks (if not at the same actual intersection) of > where this incident happened. Clearly there are a lot of bicyclists who > haven't realized how dangerous this type of behavior can be. > > jc > >
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