Recent Streetsblog LA posts about “Accidents”

It’s No Accident

By Brad Aaron | Mar 24, 2009 | No Comments

What if news articles of shootings, stabbings and other deaths used the same language normally employed to describe traffic collisions? Today on the Streetsblog Network, David Alpert of Greater Greater Washington points to media coverage of a crash in Culpeper County, VA, as an example of our tendency to view traffic violence as an immutable […]

Road Rage Dr. Thompson Arraigned on 7 Counts (Updated)

By Damien Newton | Jan 15, 2009 | 12 Comments

Stephen Box spent the morning at the La Cienega Courthouse to bring us the news on the progress of the trial for Dr. Christopher Thompson, the "road-rage" doctor that allegedly tried to kill a pair of experienced cyclists on July 4th for riding two abreast on a two-lane road. For those of you that are […]

Update on Last Week’s DASH Crash and Pedestrian Fatality

By Damien Newton | Jan 13, 2009 | 2 Comments

News and opinion continues to come in on last week’s horrific crash between a DASH bus and 58 year old pedestrian Gwendolyn Coleman. The most important of which came yesterday when Steve Hymon reported at LA Now that the police have determined that Coleman had the right away and a green light when the DASH […]

Media Silent on Horrific Bus Crash Downtown

By Damien Newton | Jan 8, 2009 | 30 Comments

Hat Tip to alert reader Ingrid Peterson. Yesterday morning, a DASH bus crashed into a woman in the crosswalk on Flower Street, just after 5th, in the cross walk that leads to LA public library. First hand accounts of the crash were pretty graphic and the pedestrian is assumed dead since, in the words of […]

Streetsblog Is Back and Looking Forward to 2009

By Damien Newton | Jan 5, 2009 | 5 Comments

Let’s face it, the end of 2008 presented a lot of bad signs that hopefully won’t be carrying over to the New Year. President-Elect Obama seems to be pushing a stimulus plan that would poor billions into road projects and much less into transit or other green transportation and locally the streets are getting less […]

Breaking News: Road Rage Doc’s Trial Moves Forward

By Damien Newton | Dec 11, 2008 | 5 Comments

For those of you following the saga of Dr. Christopher Thompson, the driver in the July 4th Road Rage crash that left two cyclists in the hospital, his case is moving forward. Thompson’s case gained national attention because of the brutal images of the crash that were captured, and the appalling lack of concern showed […]

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