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sevencyclist
03-10-2008, 09:54 AM
Two cyclists died and one still in the hospital. They were riding on a popular loop around here and got ran over by the Deputy who apparently had dozed off at the wheels while patroling. I was just on that road last week.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23557984/

Sad news.
mdeeds71
03-10-2008, 10:00 AM
Used to be one of my favorite loops. My condolensces to the families and to the one still in the hospital.
Blue Jays
03-10-2008, 10:13 AM
Sad cycling news indeed (http://forums.thepaceline.net/showthread.php?t=41960) :(
tomwd3
03-10-2008, 10:43 AM
Once again, a cyclist pays for another's mistake.
Is falling asleep at the wheel an accident?
I'm sure the sad pattern will be repeated. I'm not even sure that severe punishment for a deputy would get the message across that driving tired is driving impaired.
My heart goes out to these people's families.
I guess it all comes back to....when on the road...trust nobody.
DarrenCT
03-10-2008, 10:49 AM
at what point do we ride toward traffic like runners?

actually... not a good idea either

sad story
ada@prorider.or
03-10-2008, 10:50 AM
HORROR

Hope you ask on Barrack to CHANGE this

ASK FOR SEPERATE BIKE LANE'S !!!
Kevan
03-10-2008, 11:22 AM
HORROR

Hope you ask on Barrack to CHANGE this

ASK FOR SEPERATE BIKE LANE'S !!!

Impossible.

This is the risk we carry. Bad things happen to the best of folk.

Such a shame.
Blue Jays
03-10-2008, 11:24 AM
Bike lanes are typically lines painted on the ground.
The only thing that would have helped these unfortunate people would have been a five-foot concrete wall or heavy steel barricade.
BumbleBeeDave
03-10-2008, 12:44 PM
HORROR

Hope you ask on Barrack to CHANGE this

ASK FOR SEPERATE BIKE LANE'S !!!

. . . you'd like to tell us about yourself, Cees? Your axe is already ground down to the nub. Hard for me to believe you'd throw something like this in a thread on this subject. Very unfortunate . . . :no:

BBD
ada@prorider.or
03-10-2008, 02:57 PM
Well my buddy trains on those roads for me its hard to those thing happpens and nobody does anything to change it.

The only thing to change is to aks the politician to change this!!!
bcm119
03-10-2008, 03:11 PM
Bike lanes would be nice, but have nothing to do with this tragedy.

A 27 yr old cop falls asleep on a winding road at 10:30 AM? Sounds pretty weird.