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Heat Map of UCD Bike Accidents

With the Tour over, I haven't really posted a lot of bike related things. But I guess with the new year, there's a nice slew of bike accidents on and off campus. I found this heat map that a UCD grad student set up that analyzes the number of bike accidents at a given intersection or street. It doesn't give super rich data, but I think it gets the point across.

I'm glad to learn that I do indeed have the safest route to and from campus (5th->4th->3rd->campus). I'm a bit surprised at how many accidents there are along 8th Street though. I also thought it was interesting that there were no metrics on accidents on campus. But then I realized, every intersection on campus probably has an accident. It probably also goes unreported too. And how unsurprising, downtown and 5th street are clusterfucks.

If you have time, I'd also recommend his blog post on the matter. In a nutshell, his sister was hit head on by a car:
http://vort.org/2009/04/29/davis-crash-map/

Anyways, ride safe out there.

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