The Law Offices of James M. Freeman, P.C.

Most bicycle and pedestrian accidents are intersection related. Of those intersections controlled by a traffic light, most accidents occur within a few seconds of a change of lights. Those few seconds are a dangerous time for cyclists and pedestrians.

in 2011, CDOT found that 28 percent of pedestrian/auto crashes between 2004 and 2009 in the "central business district" involved taxis.  The Central Business District was considered to be the area bounded by Division, Halstead and Roosevelt.   The report indicated that there was not data on the percentage of taxis relative to the overall vehicle population in the central business district, so it declined to conclude that taxis were overrepresented among the general number of crashes in the central business disctrict.