It’s a split second of distraction for a car driver who forgets you are there. This is a typical story: Person finds bicycle and body the next morning. https://www.tampabay.com/news/breaking-news/2021/09/16/bicyclist-killed-in-ruskin-hit-and-run-driver-sought-hillsborough-officials-say/ Every week I see a bicycle driver driving against the traffic either in a “bicycle lane” (either real or imagined) or just on the right side […]
There’s lots of people giving you advice about New Year’s resolutions to improve your life. Some of those are difficult. These ones are easy. Enjoy 2018! Use your seat belt and ask tell the passengers in your car to get out if they don’t put theirs on. I know, I know a few people whine: […]
How many times you have driven on the road and you hear the rumble of a gas-powered vehicle behind you and clench your teeth for the sound of the swish of the front end or right mirror of within inches of your left handlebar. How many of you have been grazed by a right rearview […]
If you don’t, you will wake up one day in your bank account will be frozen, and you will have large bills from companies you have never heard of coming to your house. You will spend many frustrating hours on the phone trying to straighten this out.. The stories are chilling. First, learn about identity […]
Here’s a picture of me with Mayor Bob Buckhorn of Tampa and former Chief Jane Castor of the Tampa Police Department. (It’s on the front of this website.) I was presenting them a check for $2,000.00 to put “Three Feet” stickers on the Tampa police cruisers (120 of them). As the police department was getting […]
The election in the Fall of 2016 marks a milestone in Florida history and the end of an era of corruption in Florida politics. It is important election for Steele Olmstead because he put his entire finances at risk to make voting fair in Florida. Florida beginning in the 1800s was always a victim of […]
Shown here with Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn one of the celebrities attending, Steele watches on as Hizzoner rings the opening bicycle bell during the opening ceremonies of the SWFBUD 7th Annual Bicycle Bash at Cotanchobee Park in downtown Tampa, Florida. The weather was stupendous with attendance by nine bicycle shops, four bicycle interested governmental entities, […]
TAMPA — J. Steele Olmstead of FloridaBicycleLaw.com has donated $2,000 to the Tampa Police Department for more “Share the Road It’s the Law” decals on the police cars’ rear windows. Shown here with Steele is Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn and Chief of Police Jane Castor of the Tampa Police Department accepting the ceremonial check. The […]
Printed in The Florida Bar News, June 1, 2012. When Justice Teaching volunteers are asked about their sessions in the classroom, they describe the experience as fulfilling and enriching. However, as the recent unsolicited letter to Justice Fred Lewis, Justice Teaching’s founder, from Suncoast Elementary School teacher Sky President demonstrates, Justice Teaching has the capacity […]