ManitobaA Winnipeg couple is raising safety concerns after both were injured while biking through the same Winnipeg intersection two days apart.Infrastructure needed that will make rising number of cyclists feel safe: advocateArturo Chang · CBC News · Posted: Oct 02, 2025 6:50 PM EDT | Last Updated: 21 minutes agoJodry Clayton and Jenn Kostesky were injured while travelling through Sherbrook Street and Westminster Avenue. in accidents that occurred only two days apart. (Submitted by Jodry Clayton)A Winnipeg couple is raising safety concerns after both were injured while biking through the same Winnipeg intersection two days apart.Jodry Clayton says he landed on his head after slamming his brakes to avoid crashing into a vehicle turning right on Sherbrook Street and Westminster Avenue on Saturday afternoon. The West Broadway resident fractured his collarbone, and is awaiting surgery for a broken clavicle.Clayton’s partner, Jenn Kostesky, was biking down Westminster two days later when a truck struck her arm with a rear wheel while turning right during rush hour on Monday.”I had surgery yesterday to repair a break in my elbow — got fractures in my hand and in my wrist. So, yeah, it’s wild that it happened to both of us in the same intersection days apart.”Kostesky says drivers are not paying attention to the bike lanes when they travel through the intersection.”There’s a sign right at the intersection there to yield to pedestrian or to cyclists when you turn,” Kostesky said.The intersection at Sherbrook Street and Westminster Avenue in the city’s West Broadview neighbourhood where the accidents occurred. (Prabhjot Singh Lotey/CBC)”People just need to be aware, especially as we start adding more bike infrastructure, that it is there and that cyclists do have the right of way,” she added.”These are designed to keep cyclists safe and, unfortunately, both of us were in protected bike lanes when this happened.”Headstart for cyclists would help: Bike WinnipegBike Winnipeg executive director Mark Cohoe says the organization has been pushing the city to implement infrastructure that would prevent accidents such as this where cyclists are going straight as other vehicles turn right.He said leading pedestrian intervals — which give people a head start before cars are allowed to move through an intersection — might be something that could be added to the Sherbrook-Westminster intersection to make it safer.The city implemented a five-second head start for pedestrian and cyclists at 100 intersections across the city earlier this year.”This is really what’s going to be one our main cycling corridors … that gets you from out west into downtown,” Cohoe said. “Being close to that downtown core, [it’s] one of the areas where we encourage people to bike, but they need to feel safe doing that.”Cohoe says that as more people take up biking, vehicles also need to be more aware of them.”As a motorist it’s natural to feel that a right turn is pretty free,” Clayton said. “You can just turn right and you’re good to go. But in areas where there’s bike lanes, I see it all the time where there’s a lot of close calls.”The City of Winnipeg said in an email there are no plans to make changes at Sherbrook and Westminster at this time, but that it’s working on a new network screening system to better identify locations that pose safety risks for pedestrians and cyclists.Two cyclist collisions prompt calls for improved safetyA West End couple is asking motorists to be more aware of bikes after they were involved in separate collisions at the same intersection over the weekend. Now they’re calling on the city to make the intersection safer for cyclists. With files from Mike Arsenault
Cycling couple injured 2 days apart after run-ins with vehicles at same Winnipeg intersection
