by John Boyle | Aug 27, 2025 | Biking the Region, Crash, News, The Circuit, Vision Zero
On August 11th, Dr. Jerald Matt was tragically killed while cycling on the Schuylkill River Trail at the intersection with Ford Street and Lafayette Street in Norristown. While cycling on shared-use paths is generally less stressful and safer than riding in...
by Nicole Brunet | Aug 8, 2025 | Biking in Philly, Crash, News, Vision Zero
The first six months of 2025 saw the lowest amount of traffic fatalities since before 2019. So what does this mean for Vision Zero and for the rest of the year? Part of our effort to meet Philadelphia’s goal of zero traffic fatalities in 2050 includes us analyzing...
by Nicole Brunet | Jul 14, 2025 | Biking in Philly, Crash, News, Scooters, Vision Zero
It has come to our attention that there have been a number of crashes at the corner of LeCount and South St. by drivers making right turns into the bike lane and hitting bicyclists and scooter users. Most recently, a 37 year old bicyclist was hit on Wednesday, July...
by John Boyle | Jun 27, 2025 | Biking in Philly, Crash, News, Vision Zero
We are saddened to report that Andrew Dormer has died from injuries sustained in a crash that occurred on the afternoon of June 5th at the intersection of Dupont and Wilde Streets in Manayunk. This is the third bicyclist killed in a crash so far this year. Our hearts...
by Nicole Brunet | May 9, 2025 | Biking in Philly, Crash, News, Vision Zero
On Thursday, May 8th at 8:15am a Jeff Ishibashi, 50, was riding a bike on Baltimore Avenue going east into the 58th St. intersection. At that time the driver of a Mack truck was also traveling east and made a right turn hitting and killing the bicyclist. This crash...
by Bicycle Coalition | Jan 31, 2025 | Bike Month, Biking in Philly, Crash, News, research, Vision Zero
As we move further from 2020, the number of overall people killed in traffic crashes in Philadelphia continues to be stubbornly high. In 2024, 125 people were killed as a result of a crash. Throughout the year, we gave snapshots, generally tracking the number of fatal...
