http://bikingtoronto.com/forum/ BikingToronto Forum Topic: Collisions between cars and bicycles down, cops say en Wed, 22 May 2013 22:54:42 +0000 http://bikingtoronto.com/forum/topic.php?id=274#post-693 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:33:14 +0000 toddtyrtle 693@http://bikingtoronto.com/forum/ <p>Wow, 3 crashes a day? That's still *crazy*.</p> <p>All in all it's kind of like the weather man saying proudly: "Temperatures have dropped! While it was 45°C last week, it'll be only 40 this week!"</p> <p>Infrastructure will go a long way towards helping with this, I suspect. And enough with the justification that we shouldn't put in infrastructure for a bunch of scofflaws or I'll suggest that the airbags be removed from all cars because drivers speed and therefore don't deserve them. </p> http://bikingtoronto.com/forum/topic.php?id=274#post-685 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:11:19 +0000 joe 685@http://bikingtoronto.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://bikingtoronto.com/forum/topic.php?id=258">Even with all this hubbub</a>, the roads are getting more civilized? <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2009/09/03/10728781-sun.html">Less collisions</a>, but more media coverage?</p> <p><ul><li><em><br /> <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2009/09/03/10728781-sun.html"><strong>Collisions between cars and bicycles down, cops say</strong></a></p> <p> Collisions between bikes and cars are down this year, but Toronto Police admit more could be done when it comes to enforcing the rules of the road on cyclists.</p> <p>According to numbers from traffic services, of the 417,879 traffic tickets issued this year, only 1,894 were issued to cyclists. That's less than the 2,718 issued to pedestrians.</p> <p>"Is there room for improvement on enforcement? Oh yeah," Burrows said. "Is that the route we want to take? I don't think so, I think we'd prefer to go after education and change the behaviour."</p> <p>The death of Darcy Allan Sheppard who was fatally injured in an incident involving the car driven by former attorney general Michael Bryant Monday is considered a pedestrian fatality even though he had earlier been riding a bike.</p> <p>Before Sheppard's death, 15 pedestrians, two drivers, four passengers and one motorcyclist had died on Toronto roadways this year. </em></li></ul> </p>