8,187 bike and car crashes in eight years

(DECEMBER 11, 2018) Many Oregonians like bicycles. They ride bikes to school. They ride bikes to work. They ride bikes for fun, too.

Sometimes riding a bicycle on a road with cars is dangerous. Cars and bikes can crash. Another word for crash is collision. Oregon Department of Transportation counted these collisions. It looked at information from 2007 to 2015. Bikes and cars crashed 8,187 times. 83 people died.

The Oregonian newspaper studied the information. Where do collisions happen often? Here is a list of cities:

1. Corvallis (5.33 crashes per 1,000 residents); 1 person died
2. Portland (4.40 crashes per 1,000 residents); 14 people died
3. Grants Pass (4.03 crashes per 1,000 residents); 3 people died
4. Ashland (3.77 crashes per 1,000 residents); 0 people died
5. Eugene (3.63 crashes per 1,000 residents); 6 people died