text: BACKGROUND. A resilient and sustainable New York has become a tangible goal of the OneNYC initiative, originally released in 2007 to address the city's long-term challenges including its aging infrastructure. Every year, an average of 4400 bicycle accidents are reported to the NYC Police Department. Despite a significant decrease of accidents involving pedestrians, the rate of cyclist accidents remains unchanged. To help ensure a safe environment for everyone who is out and about on NYC's busy streets, I answered OneNYC's call to speak up and analyzed the motor vehicle collision dataset that is accessible on the NYC Open Data platform. The complete analysis can be found here. For the underlying code, please refer to my Github.
  What are the major causes of cyclist accidents and what can we do to prevent further accidents from happening? Let's find out...
  In order to identify the main causes of bicycle collisions, it is important to understand whether seasonal or daily trends occur. After sorting the number of accidents by season, I looked at the relative increase in accidents between 2013 and 2017.