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Orange County Pedestrian and Bicycle Crash Analysis | 1 <br /> <br />Introduction <br />In order to support and inform the efforts of the Bicycle Safety Task Force, Orange County <br />Transportation Planning staff has prepared this report on bicycle-motor vehicle crashes in the rural parts <br />of Orange County. This report analyzes a total of 34 bicycle-motor vehicle crashes that occurred in <br />Orange County between January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2013 and includes information about age, <br />types of injuries, demographics, crash types, and road and light conditions as well as information about <br />driver demographics, driver speeds, driver vehicle types, and whether the crash was a hit and run crash. <br />The Town of Hillsborough was not included in this analysis as no bicycle crashes occurred within the <br />town limits during this time period. The final section of this document presents a crash cluster map, <br />indicating where bicycle crashes are occurring more frequently in Orange County. The overall intent of <br />this document is to provide meaningful information about bicycle safety and those people involved in <br />bicycle-motor vehicle crashes, allowing the Bicycle Safety Task Force to base any future <br />recommendations on <br />verified data and to <br />help target specific <br />audiences with <br />bicycle safety <br />educational <br />messaging. <br />Data Sources <br />The North Carolina <br />Department of <br />Transportation <br />(NCDOT) provides <br />specific locational data for pedestrian and bicycle crashes as well as associated information about each <br />crash in a format compatible with the most common mapping software, ArcGIS. The crash data is <br />provided for the entire state of North Carolina. Orange County Transportation Planning staff obtained <br />the data from NCDOT using their online portal (Figure 1 - <br />http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=b4fcdc266d054a1ca075b60715f88aef); clipped the crash <br />data to the Orange County boundary, also removing crash data from Chapel Hill/Carrboro; and <br />performed a spatial analysis on the remaining bicycle crashes. The results of this analysis are presented <br />in the following sections. <br />This crash data is periodically updated by NCDOT. This analysis will be updated upon receipt of the new <br />data, with 2014 data available this winter. <br />Crash Analysis <br />The report is divided into two sections. In the first section, Orange County Transportation Planning staff <br />will present information about bicyclist age, injury severity, race and sex of motor vehicle crash-involved <br />bicyclists, crash types, road conditions, and light conditions. In the second section, information regarding <br />the bicycle crash-involved drivers will be presented, including driver race and sex, driver age, driver <br />Figure 1: Web <br />Interface for <br />Bicycle and <br />Pedestrian <br />Crashes <br /> 41