Paige Onweller is a professional athlete who knows firsthand what unsafe roads really cost. While on a training ride in Bentonville, Arkansas, Paige swerved to avoid a head-on collision with a van driving on the wrong side of the road. She went down hard. The driver then ran over the back of her bike while she was trapped underneath it and was not even ticketed.

Paige suffered a concussion, a neck injury, extensive bruising, a Morel‑Lavallée injury, and lasting emotional trauma that has made returning to the road difficult. This crash didn’t just injure her body. It took away her ability to work and forced her to miss the races she trained all year for.

Justin Allen is a lifelong cyclist and father. Justin’s daughter, Dovie, was hit by a driver. She was hospitalized and, thankfully, survived. But the impact on their family has been lasting. Their entire family rides bikes, and that moment changed how they move through the world. Justin brings a parent’s perspective to this work, and a refusal to accept that children being hit by cars is treated as normal or inevitable.