23% of Bike Involved Collisions are Hit & Run

February 5, 2010 at 10:15 am in Biking in LA

Finally someone started running the statistics on this.
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Alex over at Westsidebikeside has the scoop:

“LAPD Sergeant David Krumer and Commander David Doan sorted through massive collision data for 2008, and found that in 2008, 23% of bike involved traffic collisions are Hit & Run – 3% were misdemeanor and 20% were felony. This was just one statistic of many in a report on bike collisions in LA in 2008. You can see a preliminary report here – BikeTrafficCollisions2008“

This is a great step considering the history between the LAPD and cyclists.

5 Comments »

http://frazgomeanders.blogspot.com frazgo

I wonder how this compares to the hit and run stats for auto vs auto and auto vs motorcycle. Pathetic result non the less.
http://www.westsidebikeside.com/ Alex Thompson

Frazgo – that was the first question out of our mouths, once everyone picked up their jaws. LAPD didn’t have the stats on hand but promised to look into it.
http://www.typetive.com/candyblog cybele

Like frazgo I’m curious about other comparable stats. Especially pedestrian versus auto.
http://www.westsidebikeside.com/ Alex Thompson

I can tell you this – more than a 1/3 of traffic fatalities in LA are pedestrians . . . nutz.
http://www.typetive.com/candyblog cybele

I may have found one factoid – 20% of pedestrian fatalities are hit & run. (That’s national though – I don’t know if it’d be different for Los Angeles)

http://www.iihs.org/research/fatality_facts_2008/pedestrians.html

The rates are largely unchanged over the past 10 years.

Some explanations in this older SF article
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/07/27/MN292165.DTL

23% of Bike Involved Collisions are Hit & Run

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