Fairfax County Sees Increase in Number of Vehicle, Bicycle Collisions
Officials hopeful bicycle master plan will make roads safer for Fairfax County cyclists.
Accidents between vehicles and bicycles in Fairfax County are happening more frequently this year — the latest claiming the life of a Falls Church woman. There have been 54 collisions between vehicles and bicycles this year with one fatality, up from 44 accidents between bicyclists and vehicles with no fatalities in 2011. On Nov. 12, Elizabeth P. Shattuck, 58, of Falls Church, was hit by a pickup truck while she was walking from the north to south side of Columbia Pike. Police pronounced her dead at the scene, marking the first Fairfax County death resulting from a bicycle versus vehicle accident in two years. The accident is still under investigation, and charges have yet to be filed. Greg Billing, a spokesman for the Washington Area …
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Alan Young
1:21 pm on Saturday, December 1, 2012
John, providing an option to use a bicycle for short range trips costs a fraction of what it costs to build roads and provide the infrastructure required of motor vehicles, potentially saving increasingly limited local transportation funds while improving our community lives. Our taxes are insufficient to continue to do business as we have, Federal and State funding dollars are going away. We … more ›