As many of us know, the intersection of Eastwood & Division is also dangerous for those traveling inbound as drivers doing a right-on-red maneuver often don't bother to look right before proceeding- a common pedestrian issue. On Friday morning at around 7:30 I approached this light as the Division St. signal was turning red. A pickup truck raced through the yellow/red light and I thought the car behind would follow, but the driver came to a quick, but soon-to-become apparent, very brief stop. As I proceeded through the intersection the car began to make a right turn narrowly missing me. The bicyclist behind me was not so lucky and was knocked off his bicycle before the driver stopped. He was already trying to walk off the injury to his knee by the time I turned around. Unfortunately none of those of us the witnessed the crash had a cell phone and the rider who was hit just wanted to get the drivers contact information and move on.
I think it is very important that the police are involved in any crash for a several reasons; the first being that if the rider had more serious injuries that developed later the driver couldn't effectively deny that the accident happened. Also, it would have been a good little public awareness exhibit for other drivers to pass the scene and try to put 2 and 2 together as to how the accident happened and maybe encourage them to think about their own driving habits. Ride like the drivers are trying to run you down- don't give them the chance. Steve _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
