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Kansas City, Missouri bicycle, electric scooter (Bird, Lime, etc) injury lawyer

Our law firm has successfully pursued cases involving injuries to clients riding bicycles and electric scooters

Bicycle and electric scooter accidents in Kansas City and elsewhere in Missouri and Kansas:

Walking and biking are increasingly touted as healthy, environmentally friendly transportation options. More people are walking and biking to work, cities are implementing bike share programs, and planners are taking pedestrians and bicyclists into account when designing transportation plans.

Unfortunately, pedestrians and cyclists are at an inherent disadvantage when involved in traffic crashes: when a faster moving vehicle meets a pedestrian or a bicycle, the vehicle always wins.  The average bike rider and bicycle weigh less than 200 pounds while many new vehicles way in excess of 5000 pounds!  This difference in mass means that drivers should be especially careful around 

According to the National Highway Transportation Safety Agency (NHTSA), bicycle and pedestrian accidents account for almost 20% of all traffic fatalities:

Key Findings

■ In 2020 there were 938 pedalcyclist fatalities, which accounted for 2.4 percent of

all traffic fatalities during the year.

■ In 2020 there was a 9-percent increase in pedalcyclists killed (938) from the 859

pedalcyclists killed in 2019.

■ In 2020 an estimated 38,886 pedalcyclists were injured, a 21-percent decrease from 49,057 pedalcyclists injured in 2019.

■ In 2020 the pedalcyclist fatality rate per 100,000 people was 7 times higher for

males than females. The injury rate for pedalcyclists per 100,000 people was almost 4 times higher for males than for females.

■ Alcohol involvement (BAC=.01+ g/dL) – either for the motor vehicle driver in­volved in a fatal pedalcyclist crash and/or the killed pedalcyclist – was reported in 34 percent of all fatal pedalcyclist crashes in 2020.

■ Twenty-two percent of the pedalcyclists who died in 2020 had blood alcohol con-

centrations (BACs) of .01 grams per deci-liter (g/dL) or greater.

■ Seventy-nine percent of fatal pedalcyclist crashes in 2020 were in urban areas.