Category: Bike Law New York
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Ride Guide NY: Five Boro Bike Tour
This coming Saturday is the annual Five Boro Bike Tour through New York. 40 car free miles with 32,000 new bike loving friends! Bike Law New York is entering its 4th year of supporting the TD Five Boro Bike Tour, the world’s largest charity ride with over 32,000 riders. We are honored to help raise money to…
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Summons for Violation of NYC’s “Right of Way” Law Leads to Early Settlement of Cyclist’s Claim
An ongoing problem in New York State is the inability of a Police Officer to issue a traffic violation for an event they did not witness. Even if 10 witnesses confirm that a vehicle ran a red light and struck a cyclist, a Police Officer’s ability to write a summons is limited unless the event was actually witnessed…
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Breaking News: Killer of Olga Cook to Plead Guilty to All Charges
The New Jersey man charged with felony manslaughter for striking and killing cyclist Olga Cook in the bike lane on the West Side Highway has agreed to plead guilty to all charges. In June of 2016, the 26-year-old driver, from Newark, was heading southbound on West St. in his 2011 Ford truck around 7:50 p.m.…
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NY Civil Judge Takes Driver’s License (after police wrongly found deceased cyclist at fault)
Distracted, Speeding, and you kill a cyclist? Arrested? Ticketed? Nope. Welcome to New York. Well, Dan Flanzig changed the ending to this story. In the summer of 2014 Matthew Brenner was struck and killed by a motorist on Sands Street underneath the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn. From the moment of the crash there was more questions than…
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GoPro: A Trial Lawyers Best Friend
If a picture is worth a thousand words then a video is worth a million. As every lawyer knows, a crash will have multiple versions of the event; your client’s story, the defendant’s story, and the truth. A video always gets us to the truth. Rarely are we as lucky to have a client with…
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Bike Damaged in Crash? Make a Claim.
You survived that , but your ride was trashed. Now you ? You can’t believe that just happened. You were cut off. Left hooked. Doored. However your crash occurred, it happened, and thankfully you are walking away, shaken and pissed off. Sadly, you can’t say the same for your bike. Your frame is cracked or…
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Door Zones: A Dangerous Game of Russian Roulette For Cyclists
Advocacy / Bike Law Canada / Bike Law Colorado / Bike Law Illinois / Bike Law Louisiana / Bike Law New York / Bike Law USA
Dooring crashes. You know the danger if you live in any U.S. or Canadian city where older roads have been retrofitted with bike lanes. Those bike facilities are often shoehorned into the space next to car parking. When car passengers open their door without looking, they can hit passing bikers. Here’s how Daniel Flanzig, a…
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Bike Law Timmy’s Five Boro Bike Tour
On Sixth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan pedestrians fill crosswalks like liquid aluminum in an anthill. At intersections every inch between waiting cars is a channel for people moving with and without purpose through the city. I was in one of those cars as I made my way from Bike Expo NYC to my hotel. In the…
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Adding Insult to Injury in Brooklyn
Driver sues cyclist for car damage after she runs him down. A Manhattan woman is suing our client, a Brooklyn Cyclist, for $ 2000 for damaged to her car after she mowed him down on a Brooklyn street. In May of 2014 cyclist John Roemer, just days before his college graduation, was seriously injured in…
