Sometimes being a bike safety researcher is heartbreaking. Last week an eight-year-old boy was hit while riding his bike on my street. He is badly injured with cracked ribs and a broken clavicle.
It didn’t take a road safety expert to predict that it was only a matter of time till there was a tragedy in the neighborhood connected to San Antonio Creek Road. The community is at the interface of urban and rural area. There are no sidewalks, narrow shoulders, and traffic flowing between the 154 and Cathedral Oaks Road.
With a growing number of young kids in the neighborhoods, parents have been organizing to improve road safety, under the auspices of Walk San Antonio Creek. When the group gets together, parents wring their hands, concerned about fast speeds and sightlines obstructed by sharp turns, hedges, and the sun.