Stockton cited as most deadly city for bicyclists — but police say it’s safer now

A new ranking lists Stockton as America’s most deadly city for bicyclists.

But Stockton police say that with the statistics in the study based on 2023, they have made steady progress in cutting the cyclist death rate.

Two years ago, 20% of traffic fatalities involved cyclists, according to the analysis of accident data in Consumer Affairs, a unit of the Journal of Consumer Research. By comparison, bicyclists made up only 2.9% of traffic deaths nationwide…

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