Today in San Francisco I saw an ebike rider get hit very hard by a pickup driver who ran a red light. The biker was hurt badly and taken away in an ambulance but luckily was conscious and had movement in all extremities. I saw the truck run the light but only heard the impact (and immediately saw the aftermath). Bike totaled, truck had ... a broken headlight. Happened at Fell and Masonic (driver ran red westbound on Fell).

Every year I am more and more nervous about biking in the Bay Area, even as bike infrastructure improves. This intersection has a red-light camera, a resident told me, and this still happened. Oakland has no red-light cameras that I know of and I see people blatantly run reds almost every day.

Be safe, y'all, it's scary out there.

@BikeEastBay
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Happy Birthday to Robert James Smith, English singer, lead guitarist for the band Siouxsie and the Banshees from 1982 to 1984, and Co-founder of the band The Cure, born on this day in 1959, Blackpool

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