Savannah’s bicycling faithful say they hope a new state law requiring motorists to be more careful will help curb accidents, but they acknowledge the driving habits of their fellow cyclists also pose a hurdle to minimizing the number of mishaps.
Reports of accidents between motorists and cyclists in 2009 and 2010 fault bicyclists about 48 percent of the time and motorists about 39 percent of the time. The rest of the time there’s either no fault assigned to either or both are blamed.
Those are numbers determined by outside groups that pore over police reports every year and often assign blame to a cyclist even after an officer faulted the motorist, said Sean Brandon, Savannah’s director of mobility and parking services.
Source: http://savannahnow.com/news/2011-07-18/savannahs-cyclists-motorists-both-take-accident-blame#.TihXkGFi_Lk
