As District pedestrians and drivers face a record increase in crash injury and insurance rates, Howard University senior Evan Barker is among those supporting the D.C. Council’s pending Motor Vehicle Insurance Modernization Act, a bill introduced that would effectively double the current coverage amount set in 1986.
“Here in D.C., you’re really lucky if [the driver] stops, you’re extremely lucky if they have insurance, and then after that, you’re like the luckiest person in the world if they don’t try to make it seem like it was your fault even if it was theirs,” Barker said.
Following a nonfatal bicyclist collision with a city bus in 2023, Barker told The Informer he simply got up and rode the rest of the way home, unbeknownst to the fact that he would be managing the impacts of the crash for years to come–both physically and financially…