May is also National Bike Safety Month, with more bicyclists hitting the streets and roads to enjoy the warmer weather. But it often means a spike in accidents. Greg Tassone, with the Grass Valley CHP Office, doesn’t have any local numbers. But he says motorcyclists and bicyclists share responsibility..

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One law designed to reduce deaths and injuries, called the “Three Feet for Safety Act”, went into effect in September of 2014…

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The National Highway Traffic Administration reports that 48-percent of bicyclist deaths in 2014 occurred between 4pm and midnight. Tassone says that’s mainly due to the declining light and surge in commute traffic. But in California, the number of deaths has declined 23-percent from 2013 to 2015. He also notes a couple of local events coming up this month. One is a Kids Safe Festival on Saturday at Sierra College. The other is the Gold Country Challenge, highlighting the rules of the road, that takes place at the Nevada County Fairgrounds on Saturday, the 14th.