Ohio Bike Lawyer - Steve Magas

Ohio Bike Lawyer - Steve Magas Got Rights? Get The OhioBike Lawyer! Steve Magas, Ohio's Bike Lawyer, has handled 500+ BIKE cases and handles cases throughout Ohio!

Steve Magas, the Bike Lawyer, is an avid cyclist and Ohio Trial Lawyer who has handled more than 450 "bike cases" over his 38+ year career. Steve is the author of many articles on "Bike Law" and co-author of "Bicycling & The Law." Steve is also a contributing author to "Bicycle Accident Reconstruction & Litigation." His unique Bike Law practice was featured in Lawyer's Weekly USA, and locally in C

incinnati magazine and Cincy Business as well as the Cincinnati Post. Steve has developed a legal education program for lawyers & judges called "BIKE LAW 101" which he has given throughout the state. Steve's Bike Law practice takes him all over Ohio. In the past few years alone he has had cases in Cleveland, Youngstown, Toledo, Mansfield, Columbus, Dayton, Bellefontaine, Marietta, Ironton, Stow, Bowling Green, Pickerington, Lima, Findlay, and many more. He has appeared in many of Ohio's 88 Common Pleas Courts to protect the rights of cyclists injured or killed in crashes. In addition to his trial practice, Steve is a long time bike advocate, starting back in the 1980s in Cincinnati. He now works with local advocates throughout Ohio and has sat on the Board of the Ohio Bicycle Federation for many years. Steve also sits on the Legal Committee of the League of American Bicyclists, which drafts Model Laws and consults on special legal projects. For the past 10 years Steve has been working on his Fatal Crash Project in which he studies, in detail, every fatal bike crash in Ohio. After working on this as a "side project" in his solo law office, Steve is now starting a NEW non-profit entity which will take over the project. The new entity should be up and running by Jan 1, 2021 and will seek funding to study the fatal crashes in a more formal fashion. It will gather all data- crash reports, witness statements, photos, videos, crash reconstruction data, forensic reports, alcohol data and more. The group will study this data, catalog it and report its findings. The data & reports will help cyclists, legislators, media understand what is happening on Ohio's roads, and why. Steve can usually be found on one of two bikes... his Bike Friday World Tourist, with e-assist, or his custom painted Independent Fabrication Club Racer...

Thursday’s 90 minute BikeLaw 101 is not a sell out but 80+ folks have signed up! I guess on Zoom maybe a sellout is what...
05/27/2026

Thursday’s 90 minute BikeLaw 101 is not a sell out but 80+ folks have signed up! I guess on Zoom maybe a sellout is what, 100,000?

Truth!
05/27/2026

Truth!

05/27/2026
Do motorists hate cyclists? What's going on?You can check it out here...
05/27/2026

Do motorists hate cyclists? What's going on?

You can check it out here...

We're seeing a lot of similar headlines in the news today... No surprise here since we research and track these things, and write about them... but the US is

05/27/2026
Gravel…. Running… here we go
05/27/2026

Gravel…. Running… here we go

Cycling isn’t the only sport to be increasingly sliced and diced into new segments, with the Pas Normal Studios cycle clothing brand collaborating with Salomon to launch a gravel running collection, including shoes and kit.

32” wheels… huh..
05/27/2026

32” wheels… huh..

The emergence of 32-inch wheels in gravel racing is set to be tested at this year’s Unbound Gravel in Kansas, where the Scott RC Gravel 32″ prototype will make its competitive debut

We're seeing a lot of similar headlines in the news today... No surprise here, since we track these things, but the US i...
05/26/2026

We're seeing a lot of similar headlines in the news today... No surprise here, since we track these things, but the US is seeing an "alarming rash of crashes" - Car v Bike crashes...

Why?
Well, there are no solid answers. Starting with 1975, the year the MOST cyclist were killed until recently, data showed that fatal cycling crashes DECREASED SIGNIFICANTLY each decade... so fewer cyclists were killed annually in the 80s than the 70s... fewer were killed in the 90s than the 80s, fewer were killed in the 2000s than the 90s... but...then...

SOMETHING ... happened...

NHTSA/USDOT publishes
"FARS" data - FARS data is a nationwide census managed by the NHTSA containing detailed, standardized records on all fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes occurring on public roadways in the United States. It basically sucks in ALL the crash reports from all 50 states - tallies up data in the many categories and gives us an annual snapshot of what is happening... not WHY things are happening, but data/numbers...

If you look at the FARS data you see a clear line of demarcation around 2009-2010. After several DECADES of decreasing numbers of cyclists killed, we started seeing SHOCKING, significant increases not only in the number of cyclists killed on the road, but also the number of pedestrians killed, and the number of motorcyclists killed!

2007. 718 Cyclists Killed
2008. 628
2009. 623
2010. 682
2011 734...

After 2011 the number never went below 734-

2020 948 cyclists killed
2021 976
2022 1117
2023 1166

2022 was the first year sine 1975 that we saw more than 1000 cyclists killed on the road... seems like that is now the "trend" not an aberration.

The WHY remains cloudy.

Did cyclists just forget how to ride safely and start jumping in front of moving cars? Did pedestrians and motorcyclists simultaneously started walking carelessly and recklessly operating their motorcycles? I dunno, but that seems... unlikely...

Maybe there are just MORE of everything - more motorists - more cyclists - and but not more SPACE?

Maybe motorists ... hear me out... started enjoying the fruits of modern technology and became more and more distracted?

That 2009-2010 line of demarcation is interesting to me... a few other seismic cultural events were also occurring around that time... any guesses?

Well, the iPhone came out around 2008 and took the world by storm...

Then, Facebook and other social media apps fired up and... took the world by storm...

When the phone became SMARTer I'm wondering if drivers became DUMBer? More distracted... less in tune to the fact that 2 ton death machines could easily kill and maim...

OH and let's not forget another cultural milestone... the birth of the HUUUUUUUGE SuperTall SUV/Truck... Super large vehicles replaced their smaller shorter forefathers... and heavy tall vehicles kill and maim a lot more efficiently than shorter lighter vehicles...

Another phenomenon came during the past few years as vehicle SPEEDS have increased... people want to go FASTER - Tickets for traveling 100+ mph are at record levels while enforcement seems to have decreased overall...

There are a lot of moving parts here, but serious independent STUDY is needed.

This is an EPIDEMIC that is not being studied effectively. From 2010- 2023 traffic fatalities of cyclists have gone from 623 to 1166 - an increase of an absolutely SHOCKING 87%.

For pedestrians, we saw 4302 killed in traffic in 2010 and 7314 in 2023, an increase of 3000+, more than 70%.

While different factors influence motorcycle fatalities, we have seen a jump there too - from 4518 in 2010 to 6335 in 2023, a 40% increase.

Parties with skin in the game want to give answers... motorists want cyclists OFF the road, some cycling advocates want MORE cyclists ON the roads in different flavors of cycling infrastructure... Big Asphalt wants to build more lanes

I suspect thatpeople did NOT forget how to ride a bike, pilot a motorcycle or WALK all of a sudden... the most vulnerable users of the public ways are being killed and maimed in shockingly high numbers...

Do drivers "hate cyclists?" Maybe some do, but many drivers are just too distracted to see them and care...

A rash of crashes shows a dangerous rivalry won't let up. Why are drivers and bicyclists seemingly always at odds?

HA[It's funny because it's true...]
05/26/2026

HA

[It's funny because it's true...]

Runners won't like this! 🏃‍♂️ 🏃‍♀️ 😂

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