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An Analysis Of Bicycle-Related Motor Vehicle Accidents In Lexington, Ky, Kenneth R. Agent, Charles V. Zegeer Mar 1980

An Analysis Of Bicycle-Related Motor Vehicle Accidents In Lexington, Ky, Kenneth R. Agent, Charles V. Zegeer

Kentucky Transportation Center Research Report

A 1978 report dealt with an analysis of statewide bicycle-related, motor-vehicle accidents in Kentucky. In this study, a more detailed analysis of one city (Lexington) was performed. Accidents in a seven-year period were analyzed to make a detailed summary of several years of accident data, compare the Lexington accident summaries with statewide statistics, identify high-accident locations, and recommend accident countermeasures.

The number of bicycle accidents in Lexington has increased in recent years; however, the bicycle accident rate for Lexington was lower than that found for many other major cities in Kentucky. The largest number of bicycle accidents involved male cyclists …