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LBAC Meeting Minutes 9 Let’s bring up the Ambassador Program with the Friends of the Lexington Bikeways organization. Also, bring it to TSG as an idea. The group talked about the monthly Crash Reports – it’s documented as a bike incident – not documented like a car crash form. For a car there is a full police crash report but for a bike incident there is the crash report. For a car and bike crash then a full crash report. Bike versus Bike then we don’t have the information – it’s more of a medical call. Officer Barry can give us the number of bike incidents just the number and maybe a little more information. That’s all they can provide. They can provide generic information about how many per year or per month. The recent Meriam Street crash was a public record and involved a car. The bicyclist went to the hospital and received a ticket from the Lexington police. The majority of crashes are single bike crashes. To improve the data from bike crashes, could the Police boil it down to the 5 or 6 types of crashes that happen? Some type of data identification. They don’t have those specific codes – such as a dooring, car cut off or etc. They don’t have specific codes do make these distinctions. Mark – my question about the crash report: We would like to use the crash reports to help prevent future crashes. Officer Barry – we can search on the location and most crashes are at the bikeway intersections. Are they happening at nighttime.– Mark – what are the reasons for these crashes? This is what we want to track and discover from the crash reports. 6. Liaison Reports Ross/DPW: DPW got approval to use Green paint across Maquire Road crossing. The Battle Green construction is still ongoing.