Bicycle Safety

Wanju Yu, a 74-year-old Cupertino resident, was struck and killed by a driver while riding his bicycle near De Anza College yesterday.

A bicyclist was injured in an apparent collision involving an automobile at Market and Ellis Streets this morning. Limited details were available about the crash, but Streetsblog contributor Pam MacLean reports that it took place just before 7:40 a.m. today:

Mary Yonkers, 58, of San Mateo, was killed by a truck driver while riding her bicycle to work on Shoreway Road in Redwood City last week.

Turns out even the fastest cyclists in the world still have to contend with oblivious and dangerous drivers, at least when they're not racing on a closed course. David Zabriskie, current U.S. time trial champion and winner of three cycling grand tour stages, recently told a capacity crowd in Larkspur, California, that he has been whacked three times by cars while riding in the United States. 

Note: We've posted an update and a profile of Mary Yonkers.

Note: We've posted an update and a profile of the bicyclist, Mary Yonkers.

A woman bicycling on Haight Street between Clayton and Belvedere was injured in a crash involving multiple delivery trucks between 9 and 10 a.m. today. Details are still unclear, but according to an eyewitness account, she was taken away in an ambulance, conscious but with apparent injuries to her legs.

A San Francisco police inspector has "severely warned" two men who allegedly harassed a bicyclist in the bike lane along the Embarcadero last week. The terrifying tale, which we published verbatim on Streetsblog, stirred quite a reaction among new and regular commenters, and served as an important reminder about what to do when bicyclists encounter hostile, threatening motorists.

From SF Citizen via Eyes on Blogs comes word of a nasty collision between a bicyclist and an SUV driver in Golden Gate Park Wednesday. The photographer who snapped these shots described the crash on his Flickr post: