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This 13 year old boy, entering eighth grade, was riding home from his Alameda County middle school on 8/10/22 at 3:10 pm when was assaulted twice and severely recklessly endangered by two drivers.  It was his first time riding with a camera mounted on the back of his new e-bike so the lens is smudged. …

The Silicon Valley Bike Coalition recently invited CVE Founder, Craig Davis, to speak on the use of cyclists’ video evidence in bike safety.  The topic was later changed to the role of video surveillance in bike safety, which was unfortunate because, as a staunch privacy advocate, CVE is fundamentally opposed to persistent surveillance. Simply stated:…

I am often asked how the streets became so dangerous that the vast majority of potential cyclists conclude it’s not worth risking their lives to ride a bike and led a California Highway Patrol Commander to state that “riding a bike on the road is like riding a bike in a shooting range.”  This brief…

Imagine walking on a public sidewalk when a stranger runs up behind you yelling you don’t belong on the sidewalk, aims a gun at your head, fires, missing so narrowly you can almost feel the bullet’s wake ripping by your ear.  The stranger says they wanted to teach you a lesson: you don’t belong on…

To truly achieve safe shared streets, towns, cities and counties need to publicly support the six commitments for cycling safety. At the beginning of the global pandemic, cyclists demonstrated the huge potential cycling population by flocking to roads that were closed to motor vehicles due to Covid 19.  The road closures made cyclists feel safe…

Calling all cyclists who ride in or through San Mateo County. CVE Founder, Craig Davis, will present “Enforcing Laws For Cycling Safety” during the San Mateo County Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee meeting on February 18 at 7 PM. The Zoom meeting can be accessed at https://smcgov.zoom.us/j/98097726273 Craig explains how the lack of enforcement of…

CyclistVideoEvidence.com has written legislation to add pedestrian and cyclist safety to the California Driver’s Manual, examination and the reckless driving law. On 12/7/20 we posted a brief backgrounder for our legislation along with a petition for cyclists to add their names in support of the legislation and their testimonials why they do not feel safe…

Covid 19 has inflicted severe impacts across our country but it also highlighted cycling as the safest mode of transportation during the pandemic. When roads closed to vehicle traffic across the country, cyclists flocked to the roads and bike shops ran out of inventory. Covid 19 proved there is a huge potential cycling population if…

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC), within the University of North Carolina’s Highway Safety Research Center, recently published The Role of Law Enforcement in Supporting Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety: An Idea Book. The document discusses what law enforcement can do to improve pedestrian and bicyclist safety. …