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: […]
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 […]
When I talk with the drivers of human powered vehicles like bicycles, tricycles and recumbents, their greatest fear is contact with a motorized vehicle. Pedestrians and human powered vehicles share the same status: you are a vulnerable user of the public roads; You are more likely to be injured in a crash with any motor powered […]
If you don’t mind I’d like to slip into Medical Mode for all you cyclists out here, here’s a discussion that I have with my injured cyclists clients and the parents of young cyclists. The human brain weighs approximately 3.0 pounds/1.5kg. It is sitting in a semi-opaque fluid called cerebral spinal fluid. It is inside […]
As you know I rail monthly in the FloridaBicycleLaw.com newsletter about bicycle crashes and the senseless slaughter of the best of our communities by distracted drivers and those who ignore the laws requiring distance from bicycles. However recently there have been several editorials on “watch out for bicycles. On July 2, 2011, Dr. Kurt Lang […]