Comments on: Child Dead in Collision With Pick-up http://isocrates.us/bike/2009/12/child-dead-in-collision-with-pick-up/ Getting Around on Two Wheels and Two Feet Tue, 22 May 2012 23:22:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Andrew http://isocrates.us/bike/2009/12/child-dead-in-collision-with-pick-up/comment-page-1/#comment-5477 Andrew Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:04:22 +0000 http://isocrates.us/bike/?p=2198#comment-5477 Regardless of who is at fault here--not enough evidence from this snippet--the report shows a clear bias by saying that the boy rode into the path of the truck. And I always wonder when someone has come to a complete stop how hard he has to gun his engine to hit someone hard enough to kill. Regardless of who is at fault here–not enough evidence from this snippet–the report shows a clear bias by saying that the boy rode into the path of the truck.

And I always wonder when someone has come to a complete stop how hard he has to gun his engine to hit someone hard enough to kill.

]]> By: robert http://isocrates.us/bike/2009/12/child-dead-in-collision-with-pick-up/comment-page-1/#comment-5317 robert Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:11:42 +0000 http://isocrates.us/bike/?p=2198#comment-5317 I can hear his father telling him when he first started riding his bicycle, "stay on the sidewalk so you dont get hit by a car." I can hear his father telling him when he first started riding his bicycle, “stay on the sidewalk so you dont get hit by a car.”

]]> By: Andy Cline http://isocrates.us/bike/2009/12/child-dead-in-collision-with-pick-up/comment-page-1/#comment-5316 Andy Cline Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:10:03 +0000 http://isocrates.us/bike/?p=2198#comment-5316 Tracy... Thanks for the detail. And I'm sorry your comment was tagged as spam. I don't know why. Tracy… Thanks for the detail. And I’m sorry your comment was tagged as spam. I don’t know why.

]]> By: Tracy Wilkins http://isocrates.us/bike/2009/12/child-dead-in-collision-with-pick-up/comment-page-1/#comment-5310 Tracy Wilkins Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:35:32 +0000 http://isocrates.us/bike/?p=2198#comment-5310 Four way stop. Single streetlight on the NW corner (driver's left). Chain link fence obscuring the view of the cross street to the south (driver's right). Sidewalk crosses the street across the intersection from where the truck would have stopped. If the cyclist was coming from the south, he was against a backdrop of an unlit industrial parking lot. If he was coming from the north, he was coming out from behind both the streetlight and the car on the north. Full on dark, with rain/snow setting in. Don't be so quick to blame the driver on this one. My guess is that the kid came off that sidewalk in front of the truck. You can pull that intersection up on Google Streetview, and it looks fairly wide open, but factor in the weather and probable improper cycling technique on the part of the kid as well as the witness account and I'm guessing that kid was almost impossible to see regardless of the direction he was coming from. Four way stop. Single streetlight on the NW corner (driver’s left). Chain link fence obscuring the view of the cross street to the south (driver’s right). Sidewalk crosses the street across the intersection from where the truck would have stopped. If the cyclist was coming from the south, he was against a backdrop of an unlit industrial parking lot. If he was coming from the north, he was coming out from behind both the streetlight and the car on the north. Full on dark, with rain/snow setting in. Don’t be so quick to blame the driver on this one. My guess is that the kid came off that sidewalk in front of the truck. You can pull that intersection up on Google Streetview, and it looks fairly wide open, but factor in the weather and probable improper cycling technique on the part of the kid as well as the witness account and I’m guessing that kid was almost impossible to see regardless of the direction he was coming from.

]]> By: robert http://isocrates.us/bike/2009/12/child-dead-in-collision-with-pick-up/comment-page-1/#comment-5309 robert Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:24:44 +0000 http://isocrates.us/bike/?p=2198#comment-5309 I would imagine he was on the sidewalk. Not that I'm blaming the kid in this situation but in these types of crashes, at least in Columbia, the bicyclist is almost always on the sidewalk and enters the crosswalk at bicycling speed where its nearly impossible for anyone to see and/or yield to them. I would imagine he was on the sidewalk. Not that I’m blaming the kid in this situation but in these types of crashes, at least in Columbia, the bicyclist is almost always on the sidewalk and enters the crosswalk at bicycling speed where its nearly impossible for anyone to see and/or yield to them.

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