Action Alerts: Protect Vulnerable Road Users

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TWO IMPORTANT PETITIONS:

Action Alert: Protect California’s Vulnerable Road Users

Sign the California Bicycle Coalition’s petition to support California’s Vulnerable Road Users Protection Act, AB 2398. Too many Californians have been injured on our streets or are mourning the death of a loved one due to distracted or negligent motorists. Protecting Californians who ride bikes, walk, run, ride horses, scooter, skateboard, and work on our streets is vital to make California a better place to live. AB 2398 will protect all road users by:

  • Raising the fine for hitting a Vulnerable Road User
  • Assigning a point on the motorist’s driver’s license
  • Suspending the offender’s license for six months

This bill will remind motorists of their obligation to be cautious of each person on our streets. Sign CalBike’s petition today, join our Thunderclap to make a huge social media push, and encourage our representatives to support the Vulnerable Road Users Protection Act. Help make our streets more livable, and take California one step closer to reaching CalBike’s goal of tripling the number of people bicycling by 2020.

Action Alert: Let’s End California’s Hit & Run Epidemic

In the City of Los Angeles, 20,000 hit-and-run crashes occur annually, resulting in over 4,000 injuries. Of those injuries, 150 will be severe or fatal ones, and people walking and biking are disproportionately affected, accounting for 75% of those severe injuries and deaths.

While other crime rates in the City of L.A. have fallen over the past several decades, hit-and-runs have held steady or increased. If you are hit and severely injured or killed while walking or biking, there’s a greater than 1 in 5 chance that the driver will not stop. In February 2013,
a motorist hit Damian Kevitt while he was biking through Griffith Park in L.A., pinned him down, and then dragged him several hundred feet, leading to severe and near-fatal injuries. Hit-and-run victims are often more severely injured or killed during the act of fleeing than from the initial collision. Stopping after a collision saves lives.

So why do people run? Because they’re likely to get away with it.

Sign LACBC’s petition to help change that!

 

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