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Kea Wilson is Senior Editor for Streetsblog USA. She has more than a dozen years experience as a writer telling emotional, urgent and actionable stories that motivate average Americans to get involved in making their cities better places. She is also a novelist, cyclist, and affordable housing advocate. She previously worked at Strong Towns, and currently lives in St. Louis, MO. Kea can be reached at <a href="mailto:kea@streetsblog.org">kea@streetsblog.org</a> or on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/streetsblogkea">@streetsblogkea</a>. Please reach out to her with tips and submissions.

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California

STUDY: U.S. Not Doing Enough To Stop Stoned Driving (or to Boost Transit)

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Aggressive Driving

Road Rage Shootings Are On a Terrifying Rise

Jesse Coburn is Streetsblog&#8217;s investigative reporter. His reporting has received a Sigma Award, a Casey Feldman Award, and awards from the Silurians Press Club and the Overseas Press Club Foundation. Previously he was a reporter at Newsday and an editor at ARCH+. He’s also written for the New York Times, the Baltimore Sun, Harper’s, Cabinet and other publications. Jesse is is on Twitter at <a href="//twitter.com/jesse_coburn">@jesse_coburn</a>. His email address is <a href="mailto:jesse@streetsblog.org">jesse@streetsblog.org</a>.

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Bicycling

Study: Complete Streets Lead to Better Crash Coverage

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Car crashes

How Cities Should Analyze Crashes that Kill Peds

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Not a Coincidence: Maryland Couple Dies on Same Dangerous Road Five Years Apart

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Bad Journalism

What is ‘Traffic Violence’ and Why Do We Need To Talk About It?

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Autonomous cars

Regulators Could Have Prevented Fatal Tesla Crash

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Bicycle Infrastructure

D.C. Cyclist Jim Pagels Killed by Driver Hours After Tweeting About Unsafe Roads

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Bicycle Safety

Why Motorcycle Companies Are Betting on E-Bikes

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NEW DETAILS EMERGE: Police Declined To Cite Drivers in Shawn Bradley Crash