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LI bike fatality rate highest in metro area

Published: July 13, 2011 10:32 PM
By JENNIFER MALONEY, KEITH HERBERT, MIKALA JAMISON AND BART JONES  lidesk@newsday.com

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Photo credit: Paul Mazza | A bicyclist was injured in an accident on 43rd Street and Sunrise Highway in Lindenhurst. (May 4, 2011)

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Bicyclist fatalities on Long Island, 2005-2011

Bicyclists pedal roadways at their peril on Long Island, where at least 64 cyclists have been killed in crashes since 2005.

The bicycle crash death rate on Long Island far exceeds that of New York City, New Jersey and Connecticut, according to a Newsday analysis of federal crash data. Forty-three cyclists have been killed in Suffolk County and 21 in Nassau since 2005, records from the U.S....

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