A person on bicycle was hit by car yesterday afternoon. The light was green for both directions of traffic, and the person on the bicycle was coming out of Hollywood going into downtown Homewood at Ventura Road. The car was turning left onto highway 31 coming out of downtown Homewood. Below, the bicycle is yellow line moving left and the car is in red moving right:

Bicycle path in yellow and automobile path in red.

Let me give a bit of the background about why this happened: Homewood is being overrun by aggressive people driving cars daily — it has to do with the location of Homewood being between where people live and where people work. People driving cars think Homewood neighborhoods are their shortcuts. They aren’t paying attention, and they don’t care about your neighborhood.

Over the past 5 years, I have ridden about 10,000 miles commuting on a bicycle. Below, I’ll share some of the things I’ve learned:

How to ride a bicycle in a way that protects you from a car