Last Thursday, while hundreds of cyclists were testifying in support of the draft 2020 Master Bike Plan, a cyclist was hit by a car just a few blocks away at Nueces and Fifth Street. According to reports by the Austin American Statesman, witnesses said the cyclist ran the red light. LOBV president Rob D’Amico came [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bicycle Accidents’
Drunk driver who hit cyclists Saturday arrested
This was reported in the Austin American-Statesman’s Blotter yesterday afternoon, but I just got it forwarded to my inbox. Austinite Rudy Calderon was arrested for failure to stop and render aid, public intoxication, and driving under the influence after hitting cyclist Cory Nowell on Saturday night. The Statesman reports: Cory Nowell . . . was injured near East Riverside [...]
Hays jury finds driver guilty of reckless driving in fatal wreck with cyclist
The Austin American Statesman is reporting that a Hays County jury found Austinite Bradley Danz guilty of reckless driving in a 2007 crash that killed a cyclists. The Statesman reports: Danz hit Adam Raymond, 36, of Austin, head-on while rounding a curve on Mount Gainor Road just south of Dripping Springs on March 23, 2007, killing [...]
New #1 Threat to Cyclists: Cows!
It appears that bears are not nature’s only godless killing machines. Now we can add cows to the list. The Denver Post is reporting a Boulder woman was knocked down and her leg stepped on by a cow when she stopped to allow the cow to cross a road. The article quotes Boulder Mountain Bike Alliance [...]
The other hidden cost of the automobile
We live in such a car dominated culture that most people think only of the price of gas and maybe insurance when thinking about the cost of gas. Few people think of the other hidden costs like depreciation and the lost revenue from having tens of thousands of dollars tied up in a hunk of [...]
