Nick Magruder is a self-described “bike mechanic turned internet mechanic” who dedicated his free time to create a tool to help people “conceptualize and ingrain the true scale of the damage traffic violence bares on our communities,” he wrote in an email to Seattle Bike Blog.
CrashMap parses data from Washington State to create an easy-to-use map of the reported deaths, serious injuries and minor injuries of people walking and biking on streets and highways. He said he aims to update the data about once a month, and he is seeking feedback on this beta version to help make it as useful as possible.
“I could never find a good place to visualize bike and pedestrian crashes in Washington, so I’ve wanted to build something like this for ages,” he wrote. “I’m between software jobs right now, so I finally had time to build it.”…