03-04-2015, 09:11 AM
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Originally posted by pog
You guys really not getting it ... Narrow country road, early morning, lone rider ... When in this situation you constantly check by looking to see whats coming up from behind. Particularly prior to entering a blind curve.
Further >>> You listen for and turn look EVERY TIME a car is coming / overtaking and react accordingly if you want to live another mile.
Lots of "avid" cyclists think they own the road because law allows but law of gross tonnage ultimately will win.
Now you guys can go back to name calling and pointing fingers over a dead body.
I will agree with you that there are a lot of cyclists who act like jerks, but they are usually in the 12-25 year old testosterone poisoned age group, just as there are idiot skate boarders who knock over pedestrians in the same demographic group. But that does not mean every bicyclist or skateboarder is like that. Especially not a 63 year old long term bicycle enthusiast who worked in his community to promote safe cycling.
Pog, I don't know why it is so important to you to insist it was the bicyclist's fault. He had every right to ride there, the driver had every obligation to operate his vehicle in a safe manner, for himself, and everyone else on the road at the time (not to mention the Kona Nightingales who wander onto the roads there). If you think bicyclists should not have the right to ride the roads safely, work to get the laws changed so bicyclists are banned, but don't keep spewing your bile all over the dead guy's memory. The film footage posted online and the google street view I looked at both show the site of the collision is NOT a blind curve, it is a straight uphill run following a set of curves.
You are a waterman, do you think canoes that get run over by power boats deserved what they got because they weren't being defensive enough?
It seems like a whole bunch of you will make up any "facts" you can think of to make it the cyclist's fault, starting with the "Acting Battalion Chief" Capt. Whitman when he spoke to the press right after the collision.