My take aways from the article:
Don't drink and ride, Don't run red lights, Don't ride on the sidewalk.
On a related note: Some perspective
"In a country with a population of three hundred and fifty million people, less than two cyclists die on roads in the US each day. A pretty miniscule number, so rare these deaths are always reported by local media, to be picked up elsewhere and the stories re-run across the nation.
On any given day some 12 pedestrians will die, and around 90 people driving cars will be killed somewhere across America. For the most part these fatalities will go unreported.
This lop-sided reporting of cycling deaths, gives an erroneous impression that cycling is far more dangerous than it really is"
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