23% of Bike Involved Collisions are Hit & Run

By

Sean Bonner

– February 5, 2010Posted in: Biking in LA

Finally someone started running the statistics on this.

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.

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5 Comments

1. frazgo

   Posted February 5, 2010 at 10:33 AM

   I wonder how this compares to the hit and run stats for auto vs auto and auto vs motorcycle. Pathetic result non the less.

2. Alex Thompson

   Posted February 5, 2010 at 11:17 AM

   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.

3. cybele

   Posted February 5, 2010 at 6:17 PM

   Like frazgo I’m curious about other comparable stats. Especially pedestrian versus auto.

4. Alex Thompson

   Posted February 5, 2010 at 7:00 PM

   I can tell you this – more than a 1/3 of traffic fatalities in LA are pedestrians . . . nutz.

5. cybele

   Posted February 5, 2010 at 7:19 PM

   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

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