Yes, I made another trip to the Lab Rat Keeper, I weigh more than I did last week but the same as the week before, and the placebo makes my BP go up (as expected, they are getting rid of all the old meds from my system and getting me back to baseline, what I can do with meditation, diet, and exercise). If I take care of myself, meditate daily, eat right, and use active transportation (walk, ride a bike) I’m a level II hypertensive. The puts me at elevated risk for stroke and cardiac problems as well as renal problems, if I continue to not take meds. Since the entire purpose of working with the LRK is to test meds for safety and efficacy I don’t have to worry about not getting meds. So you can count on my making links and snarky comments about them for a long time.
Up first is an article from BikePortland about an assault with a deadly weapon after an exchange of gestures. Police: Horn, middle finger lead to injury hit and run in Southeast Yes, gesturing with the extended middle finger (commonly called “flipping the bird”) is not smart. Assault with a deadly weapon (the motor vehicle) is a felony. Find this guy and put him in jail and his minivan in a recycler’s crusher.
In an update on a story linked here earlier, they have now determined the make and possibly the model of the vehicle that was used to kill a cyclist in NC. Police Search for Truck Involved in Cyclist’s Death See the previous paragraph fopr instructions on how to deal with this waste of human skin. More Cyclists think safety after fatal hit and run As much as I agree with the majority of the advice in this article about lights and reflectors, the cyclist was lighted and reflectorized and still got hit ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. In other words, the vehicle that he was hit with had to be guided (or allowed) off the road to hit him, which makes the driver either incompetent (which makes him guilty of manslaughter) or guilty of homicide.
Updates from Topeka, the DA can’t decide if killing a cyclist by running him over from behind is a crime until the toxicology reports come back on the driver. Decision On Charges In Fatal Bike Accident Weeks Away Come on and grow a pair, file the lesser included charges that come from hitting another vehicle from behind and killing the operator, then enhance them later when the tox screens come back. Get him in jail for the safety of the public.
In the meanwhile, drivers in the Great White North (thank you SCTV) can’t seem to comprehend that cyclists don’t pack up their bikes and get into cars just because we are past the Equinox and are wending our way to the Winter Solstice. There are several wrecks and updates on wrecks in the Feed today that originate in Canada.
Up first from the GWN is a cyclist that was hit twice, because once was not enough. Cyclist killed after being struck by two vehicles and Three car crashes in Toronto leave two dead, several injured In the first report the police did not know if the cyclist had run a red light but believed he did, in the second report they had decided that he did in fact run the light. Given that he was riding a BSO, and LEO originally published his age as “in his 40s” and later corrected that to 28 when they ID’d the body, I would have to say that this was a person who lived astride the restrictions of the law, mostly obeying it and sometimes not. This time it was to his detriment that he did not. I think you know how to avoid ending up like this, if the light won’t change wait until traffic has cleared before attempting to cross the road, otherwise don’t run red lights.
Update on one of the 71 YO men that was hit over the weekend. Injured cyclist remains in serious condition Since LEO are very quick to assign blame when a cyclist is or might be in the wrong the fact that we made it all the way to Tuesday without blaming the cyclist tells me the driver just flat out ran into him as he was crossing the road legally.
Another report on the Jr. ciclist killed in Belize Cyclist Kristopher “Spermy” Chuc, 17, dies in road accident You think they could have come up with a better nickname, or just left the nickname off?
In Oz, a semi pulls out on top of a cyclist already in the road, with predictable results. Female cyclist killed by truck The comments are pretty much stacked against the driver of the truck as I post this. More Cyclist killed after being hit by truck at Docklands
Still in Oz, a widow seeks legal action in the form of pulling the accused’s license to practice law. Legal board issues McGee statement In case you couldn’t figure it out the statement was they had no statement, but they would have a statement soon. Did I mention I have a large antipathy towards lawyers? It has taken 7 years to get this far against the killer hit-and-run driver.
Trucks in Oz have been having a hard time staying on the roads when they’re supposed to. Breakdown deaths arrests Yep, gotta “do something” about all those people getting killed by trucks.
As the cycling season begins to ramp up in South Africa, the carnage commences. Cyclist killed on Durban road
And Infrastructure! in the Great White North. Rossi promises separated bike lanes A mayoral candidate was against bike lanes until he was for them.
And that’s all the news that gives me fits for Tuesday.
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Another Canada-heavy Feed
Wow, they are having a bad week in Canada. Lots of wrecks for such a small population.
Up first though is a dead Bike Ninja in FL. Cyclist killed in Leesburg traffic accident I’m going to post this again and I hope this is the last time I post it: I do not recommend riding Ninja, but if you choose that mode, ride like you’re invisible because for all practical purposes you are invisible. Riding Ninja sharply reduces the risk from idiots that are hunting cyclists, but greatly increases your risk from people that don’t want to kill cyclists and who would avoid them if they could see them. I don’t agree with riding Ninja, but I do know why it’s done, after all I was sent to the hospital by a driver that hit me deliberately and screaming at me when he did it.
A reward has been offered in the hit-and-run death of a NC cyclist. Reward Offered in Death of Hit-and-Run Cyclist LEO are taking this one seriously as a possible homicide because of the lack of skid marks and the contact away from the actual road.
The town where my son went to college does it right for a hit-and-run victim. Top “Volunteer City” Comes To Aid of Injured Cyclist I hope they are as quick in finding the driver and bringing it to justice.
A driver threatens a cyclist by honking, and gets surprised when the cyclist fights back. Cyclist threatens driver after being honked at in Cambridge Yeah scary cyclists threaten people in control of WMDs. Wooo, scary lycra over toned muscles. woooooo! (boo!)
And while I was composing the US portion of the post, the links from Canada went bust. The only one still working when I did this was this one about a right hook. Guelph cyclist seriously injured in collision with transport truck I think this might be an update or a report from a different source than the original one I saw, because that “dragged for several meters” quote looks familiar as well as that picture of the truck sitting on the cyclist. I should let you know that some of the broken links led to this same URL in spite of being from different sources.
I don’t know how long this link will stay up this time, but the man that hit 5 cyclists from behind in the bike lane has been found competent to stand trial. Driver accused in ‘Kanata 5’ crash will stand trial It took prosecutors over a year to prove the driver wasn’t insane, or at least sane enough to contribute to his defence. In previous public statements the driver has shown no remorse for the wrecks, and is facing 10 felony charges, 2 for each victim.
Meanwhile in Oz, a cyclist is killed trying to navigate a roundabout. Two riders die in crashes I don’t know what to tell you about this one as I don’t know exactly how to avoid a wreck like this one that isn’t exactly a down the road but isn’t an intersection either…
A road hazard we don’t get on this side of the equator. Magpie ends tour hopes for promising Kiwi cyclist Birds that attack with enough ferocity to knock a person off a moving bike are thankfully confined to Oz and Enn Zed. And as the article reports they are danged hard to kill and very territorial.
And to wind up, a really nice place to ride a bike. Grizzly Century bike ride celebrates 18th year
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