Thursday, September 2, 2010

first cycling death of 2010 locally

http://news.therecord.com/News/Local/article/771767

D: my roomie was afraid that was me.
It was within a block of our home.

This is the 11th traffic fatality this year, and the third of the summer, on roads patrolled by Waterloo Regional Police. At this time last year, there had also been 11 fatalities. It is the first cycling fatality in Waterloo Region in 2010.

Debris littered the roadside, and the car’s windshield was smashed on the passenger side.

That stretch of University Avenue has a marked bicycle lane. Investigators believe the cyclist was riding in the marked lane.

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D: not sure, but might explain why I got yelled at on road today.
Somebody informed me that "I am not a car"....
yeah I knew that.
Sometimes a bicyclist is safer breaking road rules than obeying them.
I'd rather be wrong and alive.
As the saying goes, better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.