Aug 26, 2019 | Bike Accident
This summer, Bicycling magazine has a story that really hits home with many bicyclists. “Hey, Bike Shops: Stop Treating Customers Like Garbage” captures what many of us from all skill levels (and sizes) have reported across the country: in SOME local...
Aug 19, 2019 | Bike Accident
Bicyclists across the country are watching to see how New York City is going to address its huge spike in cycling deaths in 2019. The death toll climbed to 19 recently – more than double the number of those killed at the same point in 2018. The New York Times...
Jul 23, 2019 | Bike Accident
I was driving on North Main Street in Elmira recently, in the construction area between West Second and West Clinton streets where the new roundabout is being built, and I observed a bicyclist trying to navigate among impatient drivers. The bicyclist was riding in the...
Jul 15, 2019 | Bike Accident
Chemung County is in the national news, and it’s good news! I am always happy to see the Twin Tiers get some positive news – and share a great idea to educate young bicyclists AND their parents. Chemung County sheriff’s deputies are...
Jul 2, 2019 | Bike Accident
Many motorists get annoyed or angry when they are slowed behind bicyclists riding in the driving lane. Many drivers think cyclists riding “in the middle of the road” are doing it to make a statement or violating the law but did you know that under NY law,...
Jun 25, 2019 | Bike Accident, Injury Law
This has already been a tremendously sad summer for the local bicycle riding community. First, a drunk hit-and-run driver kills a bicyclist in Elmira, and now a second drunk hit-and-run driver kills 16-year-old Constance Mazzarese of Owego, NY. So, so sad …....
Jun 6, 2019 | Bike Accident
Kingsbury’s Cyclery in downtown Elmira will hold the kickoff party today (Thursday, June 6) for the annual Tour de Keuka bike ride that benefits the Food Bank of the Southern Tier. At the kickoff, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. today at Kingsbury’s at 228 W. Water...
Jun 5, 2019 | Bike Accident
A Chemung County grand jury has indicted an Elmira Heights woman who was arrested in April after an Elmira bicyclist was struck and killed in a fatal hit-and-run crash near Eldridge Park in Elmira. The grand jury indicted Sara E. Harnas, 40, of East 11th Street in...
May 16, 2019 | Bike Accident, Uncategorized
The Ziff Law Firm thanks New York State Sen. Tom O’Mara for his tireless fight to make our streets and roadways safer for bicyclists and pedestrians. On Wednesday, the New York State Senate approved legislation that O’Mara has co-sponsored for several...
May 13, 2019 | Bike Accident
Bicyclists are encouraged to come together Wednesday evening (May 15) in Elmira to honor those who have been injured or killed while riding. The worldwide Ride of Silence, in its 17th year, will run from 7 to 8 p.m. starting at Wisner Park in downtown Elmira. The...
Apr 30, 2019 | Bike Accident
Chemung County may soon connect Elmira and Horseheads with a new bicycle 6.15-mile corridor that would give bicycle riders a safer path to travel from the Chemung River in Elmira to Hanover Square in Horseheads. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced last week that NY State is...
Apr 23, 2019 | Bike Accident
Ithaca is offering a great way to celebrate spring this weekend and promote biking and walking – Bike Walk Tompkins, a great cycling advocacy organization in Ithaca, will hold its 14th Streets Alive! street festival from 1 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, April 28. I...
Apr 13, 2019 | Bike Accident
I am sad to report that another Elmira bicyclist was struck by another careless motorist who simply wasn’t paying attention and struck a bicyclist while making a turn. At about 7:30 a.m. Friday, a motorist struck a male bicyclist, identified as a man in his 50s,...
Apr 12, 2019 | Bike Accident
The recent fatal bike crash in Elmira revealed the worst of humanity and the best of humanity. The worst in a woman, in the middle of the day, who was extremely drunk. Who drove her car drunk. Who ran down an adult bicyclist in a crosswalk. Who left that...
Apr 10, 2019 | Bike Accident
Charles G. Rogers, a 68-year-old bicyclist from Elmira, was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver with a suspended license Tuesday afternoon on Grand Central Avenue in Elmira, police said. Mr. Rogers was crossing in the crosswalk on Grand Central near the Clemens...
Apr 8, 2019 | Bike Accident
Bicyclists are back on our potholed Twin Tiers roads, and in addition to navigating around bad road conditions, we have to be mindful of the drivers around us. We’ve all gotten angry at thoughtless or careless drivers, and in that moment, did we confront?...
Mar 19, 2019 | Bike Accident
Sad to say but it appears to be open season on bicyclists in New York City. So far this year, in less than three months, 7 cyclist fatalities. In the last week alone, two very experienced bicyclists were struck and killed. NYC police said a total of...
Mar 13, 2019 | Bike Accident
It’s great to see longtime Elmira business owners – and longtime champions for downtown – work together to promote a great business and help a local agency that serves people with disabilities. It’s an inspiring story that resulted in the...
Jan 17, 2019 | Bike Accident
Sometimes, a 10-year-old boy can be more responsible than a 66-year-old man. That was the case last fall in the aftermath of a car-bike crash in the Rochester suburb of Pittsford, according to a report this week in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle newspaper. The...
Oct 8, 2018 | Bike Accident
This video illustrates (sadly again….) that cell phones and driving do NOT mix. Ouch!!!! Jim Reed NY Bike Crash Lawyer
