Lots of stuff in the feed today, so let’s get to slogging.
First up is a multiple report story from EnnZed. Cyclist flown to hospital after charity ride crash and Cyclist injured in Canterbury charity bike ride also Cyclist injured Wow, all that and all she did was touch wheels in a large peloton.
Back in the US there is something about cyclists that Sheriff’s Deputies in SoCal just don’t like. You might remember all the hate and discontent that went down last year when the Deputy fell asleep at the wheel and killed 2 cyclists in Santa Clara county, my blog at the time had as many as 500 hits in one day and more than 1000 hits for the week. Bike Accident With Cop This one was very strange, with the flashing lights going and the cop all of a sudden making a U turn directly into the cyclist, just missing killing or permanently injuring him by fractions of an inch. The bike was trapped under the cruiser’s left front corner.
From America’s paradise in the Pacific comes another report of a cyclist struck on a bike path. Car hits cyclist, 2 kids head-on I’m still wondering how anyone could put a bidirectional bike path next to a major highway without some kind of barrier to prevent cars from wandering off the road and head on into the bike path, but the driver in this case should have been on the road not the bike path.
And finally from India comes a report of instant Karma. Mob torches bus after it hits cyclist I hate that the state of the roads in India is such that this happens with frightening regularity, but you gotta love a place where they torch the other vehicle if there is a death involved. Kill a cyclist, watch your investment in your vehicle go up in smoke. I’m pretty sure that insurance won’t cover mob action after a wreck…And even if it does you’re out the use of the vehicle until insurance pays it off and you can get another.
And that’s the whole bloody mess, no pun intended.
Billed @$.02, Opus