Category: Motorist Education

This video is from our first real road ride, Tuesday, Feb 9. Late morning, we headed to lunch a round-about way. The instructors plan routes to use major roads like John Young and US 441 to initiate the officers in operating around large, fast, noisy motor vehicles. It also embeds the principle that bicycles are [...]

I was pleased that somebody is doing something, but then I read that line and I wonder what they are doing.
Law-enforcement officers throughout Orange County are conducting targeted traffic details today at locations that have a high rate of pedestrian and bicyclist accidents.
The enforcement is intended to bring a heightened awareness to both drivers and [...]

Semoran Blvd & University in Orange County
The last two years have brought unprecedented change to the nation and to Central Florida. The financial crisis virtually dried up credit. This caused the housing bubble to burst putting Florida’s housing industry sales into free fall. Unemployment, foreclosures and out-migration rippled through the economy. [...]

Photo by Mighk
Today was a stellar day! The weather was perfect and my work for today consisted of shooting on-bike video for the Law Enforcement Toolkit. The objective was to shoot the best practices of bicycle driving with a uniformed officer. My subject was Bill Edgar of OPD (with appearances by Mighk). Bill runs the [...]

Do you know someone that is accident prone? I know I do.
I have a brother and a sister that are accident prone and have been since they were children. I’m the oldest, so I witnessed the gore. Knocked out teeth, stitches in foreheads and broken bones were routine among those two, whereas my other sister [...]

The title is the conclusion from a study.
Until we get the media on board they will undo anything we try to do.
Title and abstract follows.
Newspaper framing of fatal motor vehicle crashes in four Midwestern cities in the United States, 1999–2000
S Connor and K WesolowskiDepartment of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University and Community Safety and [...]

This idea just popped into my head as I rolled up my driveway.  A vehicle belonging to a business had just passed me, and while this driver was not rude (and people driving company vehicles generally know better than to pull nonsense like that), I thought about the times I had been able to contact [...]

I must have missed this one back in 2006. I’m sorry that I did because it comes from the TXDOT and I would have liked something to say to those smarty pants that claim fuel taxes pay for everything. The goal was to defend using toll roads, but there is just so much more to [...]

The Florida Safety Council and Florida Bicycle Association are looking for instructors for their Alternative Transportation Education (ATE) classes.
This 3-hour course is taught to motorists with suspended licenses or otherwise less-than-stellar driving records.  It’s a great opportunity to teach safe cycling practices to potential cyclists, as well as teaching roadway sharing principles to motorists.
Candidates should [...]

they are uncontrollable and their drivers can’t be trusted.
Wandering the internet (trying to avoid some really boring work that I intend to make as difficult and torturous as possible by dragging it on all day), I came across this little car-culture gem:
Part 1

Part 2

The little parting shot, “why can’t they pay attention?” is pretty ironic [...]