Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Bike Fatalities

The ghost bike installation ceremony for Lisa Kuivinen, 20, killed at Milwaukee and Racine Street in 2016. Photo: Steven Vance

Map: Where drivers have fatally struck people biking on Chicago’s Milwaukee Avenue

By John Greenfield | May 6, 2022 | No Comments

Given it's status as our city's most popular cycling route, it's way past time for the city to turn the entire corridor into a bike-priority street.

Nick Parlingayan, who was killed on his bike by a hit-and-run driver Wednesday night at Milwaukee/Kilbourn. Photo: Facebook

Failure to create safe cycling conditions on Milwaukee leads to second bike death at Kilbourn

By John Greenfield | May 5, 2022 | No Comments

The latest victim was barista Nick Parlingayan, 22, fatally struck Wednesday night by a driver who fled the scene.

BMW driver fatally struck Gerardo Marciales, 41, as he crossed DLSD on a Divvy bike

By John Greenfield | Mar 3, 2022 | No Comments

Police say the motorist "instead of turning left according to the traffic signal, continued north," but he wasn't cited.

The memorial in the Damen Avenue plaza of the Bloomingdale Trail. Photo: Sharon Hoyer

Jose Velásquez, 16, fatally struck by trucker, remembered at gathering on The 606

By Sharon Hoyer | Dec 20, 2021 | No Comments

Almost a hundred attendees stopped by to pay their respects, the majority of whom were teens and young adults.

Jose Velásquez, 16, is the latest bike rider killed by a turning trucker who failed to yield

By John Greenfield | Dec 12, 2021 | No Comments

Yet another young life has tragically been cut short in Chicago by a truck driver who made a right turn without yielding to a person biking.

Looking north at Pratt and Western, where a driver ran a red light, killing two female pedestrians. Image: Google Maps

Drivers killed 2 female pedestrians in West Ridge, man on bike in Back of the Yards

By John Greenfield | Nov 15, 2021 | No Comments

Drivers have fatally struck 20 pedestrians and 9 bicyclists on Chicago streets this year.

The 4900 block of North Milwaukee, where Friday's victim was struck. Image: Google Maps

2nd person in 2 months is killed on stretch of Milwaukee where road diet was blocked

By John Greenfield | Sep 27, 2021 | No Comments

If speed was a factor in these crashes, having fewer travel lanes would have encouraged the drivers to obey the speed limit, and perhaps these tragedies could have been averted.

Independence Boulevard before and after protected bike lanes were downgraded to buffered lanes. Images: John Greenfield, Google Maps

Driver killed cyclist Jason Hardt, 48, on road where protected bike lanes were removed

By John Greenfield | Sep 15, 2021 | No Comments

When safe bike infrastructure is downgraded or delayed, it can have deadly consequences.

Treatments to the Logan/Western intersection. Image: CDOT

After 2 cyclist deaths, Logan/Western is finally getting road diet, protected lanes

By John Greenfield | Sep 1, 2021 | No Comments

It's great that these needed improvements are coming to Logan/Western at last, but tragic that they weren't done before two young men lost their lives.

Witnesses discuss George Sawicki’s bike crash death near Soldier Field

By John Greenfield | Aug 24, 2021 | No Comments

The two witnesses, employees of an event rental company corroborated the initial Chicago Police Department statement that the victim "struck a parked truck."

The 1400 block of South Museum Campus Drive. Image: Google Maps

Cyclist George Sawicki, 70, died after he “struck” illegally parked truck on Museum Campus Drive

By John Greenfield | Aug 18, 2021 | No Comments

Streetsblog Chicago is seeking more details on this case. As is usually the case in fatal bike crashes, the victim did not have a chance to tell his side of the story.

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