#3 is especially critical for the kind of incidents reported here recently, and for the one I'm about to describe. Some of these acts ought be prosecuted as criminal acts of violence, as they are done intentionally or with no regard to the safety of the bicyclist.
A collision of a car with a bicyclist occurred last night on Odana road on the West side. The bicyclist was returning from the YMCA at about 11:00 pm on Odana Rd. (heading East), and was hit while riding in the bike lane by a passing motorist. The bicyclist said he was hit in the hip by the car, knocked off the bike, but that he remained upright by running out from the crash after being hit. The bicyclist said the car was a black sedan, possibly a Pontiac, which had two people in it. The driver of the car didn't stop the vehicle after the collision, but instead appeared to speed up. (The bicyclist did not have time to get the car license plate number.) The bicyclist said he saw the person in the passengers' side look back to see what happened to him before the car sped up. The incident occurred at a well lit location, at the corner of Odana Road and This incident has been reported to the Madison Police. The boy's mother said he won't be allowed to ride his bike to the Y anymore and will have to drive instead. Mike Neuman ------------ Preceding Message -------------- Darin Burleigh wrote: > > In fact there are things that we can do to prevent these types of crashes. > Cars cannot sideswipe you if they are observing the Wisconsin rules of the > road, which require 3 feet of clearance when passing. > > When you're on the road, you can > * choose roads that provide 3 feet of clearance > * be visible so that motorists have enough reaction time to safely pass > > When you're not on the road, you can advocate for better bicycling: > 1. Educating motorists about the 3 feet rule > 2. Enforcement the 3 feet rule > 3. Prosecutation of abuses of the 3 feet rule > ( I don't think this ever happens) > 4. Require that all roads and highways have wide shoulders so > that motorists can safely observe the 3 feet rule. > _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
