On August 26, 2006, Austin cyclist Arjun Khanna was struck and killed by driver Jeremy Ron Wigley. Police found Wigley to be intoxicated, and since he was on parole for earlier convictions, he was jailed and later convicted of Intoxication Manslaughter. This conviction carries a ten year term in addition to Wigley’s previous convictions. Wigley [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bicycle Fatalities’
Bicycle News Roundup, 4/8/09
Want more opinions than mine on the GM-Segway “PUMA” concept? Car news site CarJake offers their two cents’ worth with some surprising insights. Geeks Are Sexy notes that South Park already invented something similar to the PUMA in an episode mocking the Segway. The CommuterPageBlog from Washington, D.C. answers suburban critics along with a plea [...]
#1 Threat to Cyclists: Bears!
Fellow cyclists, thanks to the vigilance of Steven Colbert, we all know now that bears are Godless killing machines. But little did we know that bears now have their sights now set on our fellow two wheeled brethren. The Associated Press is reporting an incident of a Missoula, Montana, teacher’s run in with a bear [...]
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 [...]
