Bike hit-and-run hits close to home

yopappamon

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My son-in-law's cousin was riding in a pedi-cab in Scottsdale AZ when an SUV (drunk driver?) hit them and left her in critical condition. The driver dragged them for 50 feet, didn't stop, hit someone else, and just kept going.

http://www.bikernet.com/blog/?p=10235

Poor girl, she's busted up pretty good but will pull through. No leads on the driver yet. :evil:
 
In Snotsdale it doesn't have to be a drunk to do that--AFAICT most people there must really hate non-car/trucks of any kind, based on my experiences and observations the times I have been forced to go there. These days I will not go there at all, even to meet friends, because of that. I'd rather ride off a cliff into lava.

FWIW, that's the one place in the valley I would daily expect a repetition of the Brazilian incident that was posted up yesterday, with dozens of cyclists mowed down murderously by a motor vehicle driver.
 
This really does hit close to home for me as pedicab season starts in Boston in about a month. It really is my favorite occupation of all time but that little thought in the back of my mind always nags at me "someday one of those idiot drunk drivers I see every night on the streets is gonna roll me right over".

I wish they could hang people like that with their own intestines for all the world to see. A five year old girl died from a hit and run a block from my apartment. Same stretch I take every day. The funny thing is that no matter how many people die on that four block piece of road the city of Boston still won't as much as put a bike lane in. There are six lanes most of the year but now there are only four due to the snow piles and traffic flows just fine. Too fine, 50mph in a 35 fine and it's ridiculous. It goes to show it wouldn't hurt to put a nice big green bike lane in like they do for th BU kids.
 
The most devastating thing is trying to get over the idea that your life doesn't matter.
Hit-and-run incidents represent about seventeen percent of car/bike collisions. Some populations are more prone to it than others.
Rather than discriminate against them I just regard all drivers lower than flush nuggets.
 
Safe assumption. Of the local biker or pedestrian hit and run fatalities, 100% of the ones caught were drunks. That's why they run. Those that didn't run, are usually those that are sober, and simply didn't see the victim.
 
dogman said:
Those that didn't run, are usually those that are sober, and simply didn't see the victim.
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`Xactly... "Sorry orificer, I didn't see the freakin' PEDI-CAB? (The minivan of the bike world.)
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dogman said:
Those that didn't run, are usually those that are sober, and simply didn't see the victim.
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That's exactly what happened just a couple weeks ago.

Most of the bike fatalities here are cyclists that ride at night with no lights and dark clothing.

This happened just a week ago, the cyclist was riding in the middle of the expressway (fast lane) at 2:00 AM.
 
*I've* almost run over (on CrazyBike2 or DayGlo Avenger) the ones with no lights, reflectors, and dark clothes, when it's really late at night and streetlights, parking lot lights, and business signage are shut off for the night, making it a lot darker in some places than is safe, and making my own headlight just about the only thing that lets me see them. Same thing with the pedestrians that wander across the road wherever they please (and just step off the sidewalk suddenly without looking) at night, again in dark clothing.
 
What i would do to live in a place where i don't have to ride alongside 2000-6000lbs worth of metal boxes transporting about 200lbs of person..

Freaking rediculous.
 
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