Hello All. I wanted to give heads up about a nice new crash reporting app recently released by Boston University: http://www.bu.edu/bikesafety/cycling-safety/accident-toolkit/
The app is nice and clean and prompts you to take good notes, photos and even voice recording of witness statements. It also asks if you'd like to upload the crash data (time, date, location) to an anonymous database that BU will track and share with the jurisdictions, enabling tracking of non-police involved crashes. Apps like this are particularly important for non-injury crashes that police may be slow to respond to. Even if not injured, the adrenaline from having been involved in a crash can make it difficult to properly assess your condition and gather data that you may need for an insurance claim. The developer has a 2-month hold on working with anyone else, but he retained the IP rights and is hoping to roll this out with other universities/communities, customized to their locality. It would be great to see the City or UW roll this or something similar out (ideally jointly). The whole website (and their overall safety program) are a great model for safety education, too. Kevin -- *Kevin [email protected] <[email protected]>*
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