Between 2002 as well as 2012 the overall divulge of hit-and-run accidents inward Los Angeles County dropped past times 30%. That's the practiced news. The bad tidings is that during the same menses the divulge of hitting as well as run accidents involving cyclists rose 42%.
The Los Angles Times has mapped all 661 hitting as well as run wheel accidents as well as 901 pedestrian accidents inward L.A. from 2002 as well as 2012. The L.A. Hit as well as Run Map tin live on filtered past times twelvemonth as well as past times bicycle or pedestrian victims. The severity of the injury from each hitting as well as run accident is shown past times the color of its mark on the map.
The L.A. Times analysis of the information reveals that virtually 20% of the hit-and-runs involving bikes "occurred inward 5 neighborhoods: Long Beach, Santa Monica, downtown Los Angeles, Van Nuys as well as North Hollywood".
