Late night insanity

Yes I’m up late posting to my blog again. I know the blog clock says after 6 in the morning, but it’s on GMT and I’m living in CST right now. But I had to parse that feed and get these links to you as soon as possible.

First up is really sad, a little girl riding her new bike on a residential street is killed by a semi truck and trailer making a delivery. 6-year-old on bike struck, killed by semi Hell of a way to kick off a blog post, but the semi was in the wrong for being there, the kid was in the wrong for running the stop sign. And the older brother will just have to live with that for the rest of his life. As for not winding up dead in a similar situation, hey it was a kid and kids have no judgment. Judgment requires experience and experience requires time. I’m still wondering why the truck driver was driving through a residential area to get to the store, when I know there was a truck route designated to that store (the street the truck was on was a no through-trucks zone).

A media outlet (I’m not sure if it’s TV or radio but because of the call letters I know it is a broadcast outlet of some kind) has a discussion of he “door prize” Getting “Doored”: More on the perils of bicycle commuting They seem to have a resident troll in their comments section. I have to say that I have never gotten a door prize on my bike, mostly because I’m very careful around parked cars and partially because there isn’t a lot of on-street parking allowed here in my part of Dallas County. I also give a great deal of credit to dumb luck.

And finally from the UK is a report on a left-hook wreck that I reported on from when this blog was located on a different provider. In the UK madia are not allowed to give any details of a wreck until after it is adjudicated. In most cases where there were no crfiminal charges filed that requires waiting until the coroner’s inquest is finished. Cyclist’s death was an accident, concludes coroner That’s funny I don’t draw the same conclusion from the data presented in the article. I draw the conclusion that the drivcer of the truck neglected to clear his right-of-way prior to making the left turn (like a US driver making a right turn) across the bicycle path. The cyclists were standing at the light for 27 seconds as shown by a security camera from a nearby store, when they left at the green light. One of the cyclists was subsequently caught in the rear wheels of the trailer.

And that’s enough for tonight.

Billed @$.02, Opus