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  • How to Avoid Traffic Accidents (865)
    A look at all types of bicycle-motor vehicle collisions, and how they could have been avoided, plus personal near collisions, and how I avoided them. - by Ken Kifer
  • Is Cycling Dangerous? (673)
    Fearmongering discourages vehicular cycling and by doing so increases the number of deaths; bicycling is at the worst no more dangerous than driving an automobile and has compensatory health benefits that greatly overshadow the risks.
    - Ken Kifer's
  • Kids Bike Safety (608)
    One of the best kid bike safety pamphlets I have seen.
  • League of American Bicyclists - commuting by bike (594)
    The League of American Bicyclists have a number of very good fact sheets on commuting by bicycle.
  • Maryland's bicycle safety video. (548)
    Maryland Department of Transportation's new bicycle safety video, "Competence & Confidence: A Bicycling Guide for Adults", is online and fully accessible. MDOT received a lot of input from the bicycling community while putting it together and we think it's a great resource for people who want to be more effective and safer cyclists. It also has some sobering information on our state's relatively high rate of bicycling-related injuries.
  • National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Bicycle Safety Programs (584)
    Through education, enforcement, outreach and legislation, NHTSA's bicycle safety program goals are directed toward reducing bicycle injuries and fatalities. Bicycling is encouraged as an alternate mode of transportation to motor vehicle travel.
  • NHTSA Bicycle Safety Tips For Adults (1,769)
    A new educational video on YouTube from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on safely driving, fitting and maintaining a bicycle.
  • Safe riding in narrow lanes (1,130)
    Two League of American Bicyclists certified traffic cycling instructors shoot video of each other "driving" their bicycles safely and legally by controlling lanes on streets that are part of the route they use to train students in the Bike Ed
  • Sprocket Man (610)
    Comic book safety facts from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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