Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Bike Fatalities

Klingenberg’s Shrine Has Been Removed; Friends Want a Permanent Memorial

By John Greenfield | Nov 1, 2016 | 24 Comments

Recently, for the second time, someone took away the flowers, candles, messages, drawings, and white-painted bike wheel that were placed at Oak and Michigan as a tribute to bike courier Blaine Klingenberg, who was fatally struck by a bus driver at the intersection on June 15. His friends and members of the cycling community say […]

Details on the Bike Crash That Took the Life of Fire Lieutenant Danny Carbol

By John Greenfield | Oct 13, 2016 | No Comments

There were at least four media-reported bike fatalities and three serious injury crashes in the Chicago area during the 12-day stretch from September 19-30. During that same period, on September 20, Chicago Fire Department lieutenant Danny Carbol, 56, sustained serious brain damage in a bike-SUV crash in suburban Evergreen Park. Carbol died from his injuries […]

Northwestern Students, Chicago Cylists Honor Crash Victim Chuyuan Qiu

By John Greenfield | Oct 6, 2016 | 1 Comment

The Northwestern University community, as well as Chicago-area bicyclists, are still processing the death of Chuyuan “Chu” Qiu, an 18-year-old student who was killed last month after she collided with a concrete truck while biking by the Evanston campus. A native of Nanjing, China, Qiu was a member of the Kaplan Humanities Scholars Program and […]

There Have Been Three Serious Bike Crashes and Four Deaths in Last 12 Days

By John Greenfield | Sep 30, 2016 | 19 Comments

It’s almost starting to feel like Bicycling magazine naming Chicago as the nation’s best bike city last week has turned into a curse. In the two weeks since that announcement on Monday, September 19, the region has seen the following bike fatalities and crashes with injuries requiring hospitalization: On Monday, September 19, around 2 p.m. […]

Organizers of Friday Vigil: We Won’t Wait Until 2026 to Prevent Bike Deaths

By John Greenfield | Sep 28, 2016 | 9 Comments

In the wake of the bike/truck collision that took the life of Anastasia Kondrasheva on Monday, as well as several other recent bike fatality cases, this Friday activists are holding a candlelight vigil and ghost bike installation at the crash site. The organizers say they’re through waiting for the city of Chicago to make progress […]

Woman Killed in Yesterday’s Crash Identified as Anastasia Kondrasheva, 23

By John Greenfield | Sep 27, 2016 | 14 Comments

The young woman who was fatally struck by a right-turning flatbed truck driver yesterday while biking in Roscoe Village has been identified as Anastasia Kondrasheva, a 23-year-old health coach at an Edgewater health facility. At around 7:50 a.m. Kondrasheva was biking north on Damen Avenue to her job at Harken Health, 5244 North Broadway, according […]

Today’s Crash, Nick Fox’s Passing Bring 2016 Chicago Bike Death Toll to Six

By John Greenfield | Sep 26, 2016 | 28 Comments

Tragically, last week’s epidemic of bike fatalities and serious injury crashes in the Chicago region, has continued into this week. This morning a young woman was fatally struck by a flatbed truck driver in Roscoe Village. She was the sixth person to be struck and killed by a commercial vehicle driver while biking in Chicago […]

This Was an Awful Week for Bike Crashes in the Chicago Region

By John Greenfield | Sep 23, 2016 | 20 Comments

This has been a terrible week for bike fatalities and injuries in the metropolitan area, with at least two deaths and two serious injury crashes in the city and suburbs. Here’s a look at the four cases. Wlodzimierz Woroniecki, 60, Struck and Killed While Biking in Franklin Park Just before 2 p.m. Monday, Woroniecki was […]

Judge in Bobby Cann Case Rules Search Warrant for DUI Blood Draw Was Valid

By John Greenfield | Sep 22, 2016 | 1 Comment

It’s been more than three years since an allegedly drunk, speeding driver took the life of Groupon employee Bobby Cann. The criminal case against driver Ryne San Hamel has been progressing slowly as the defense tries every possible strategy to have charges dropped and evidence ruled inadmissible, but there was a positive developments at yesterday’s […]

Why Hasn’t the Driver Who Killed Francisco Cruz Been Apprehended Yet?

By John Greenfield | Sep 15, 2016 | 8 Comments

[Last year the Chicago Reader launched a weekly transportation column written by Streetsblog Chicago editor John Greenfield. This partnership allows Streetsblog to extend the reach of our livable streets advocacy. We syndicate a portion of the column after it comes out online; you can read the remainder on the Reader’s website or in print. The paper hits the […]

CDOT: Citizen Support is Necessary For Us to Redesign City Streets

By Steven Vance | Sep 8, 2016 | 23 Comments

About 45 “civilians” – people who weren’t obligated to attend – showed up for yesterday’s Mayor’s Bicycle Advisory Council meeting yesterday, making it one of the most democratic MBAC meetings ever. The council, which meets quarterly at City Hall during the workday, usually draws only about 10-15 attendees who aren’t there in an official capacity, many of whom are […]

Reckless Drivers Kill Four Cyclists, Trib Warns Bike Riders to Be More Careful

By John Greenfield | Sep 2, 2016 | 22 Comments

Yesterday, in response to four recent Chicago bike fatalities apparently caused by reckless drivers, the Tribune ran a well-meaning but wrongheaded editorial that largely puts the onus for creating safer streets on people who bike. It’s clear the editorial writer or writers were moved by the deaths of Blaine Klingenberg, Virginia Murray, Lisa Kuivinen, and […]

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