Stockton topped a list that considers it the most dangerous city in the U.S. for cyclists, but officials say they're seeing major success in turning that statistic around.

Deacon Stephen Bentley has been the director at Helping Urban Bicyclists in Downtown Stockton for 10 years.

As a cyclist himself, he's seen many changes on Stockton roads.

One of them is not a change he'd like to see.

"If there's someone who has had a deadly encounter on the bicycle, we will put up a white bicycle in its place, just to identify that this is where a person passed," Bentley shared.

A new study from the Journal of Consumer Research used data from 2023 showing the rate of cyclist deaths in Stockton was more than six times the national average.

According to the Stockton Police Department, there were 2

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