Re: 2018 Cycling Fatalities
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2018 3:01 pm
I knew the rider and rode with him weekly but he hasn't been named publicly as yet.
BNA - For the Australian Cycling Community
http://bicycles.net.au/forums/
Unfortunately trucks are a serious danger to cyclists everywhere:P!N20 wrote:I was only just watching a video on how pedestrian and cyclist safety had improved in NYC.
https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-u ... f3d3cde193
silentC wrote:Police appeal for witnesses after cyclist dies following incident at Lochiel
https://aboutregional.com.au/police-app ... t-lochiel/
WHAT.... is this all about?? Very suspicious implications.Initial inquiries suggest a 37-year-old man stopped his Nissan utility to speak with the cyclist prior to the crash.
There is more to this story than that news article mentions.Scott_C wrote:Unfortunately trucks are a serious danger to cyclists everywhere:
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/ ... 806d6c4192
Do NOT go up alongside stopped trucks !!!Saw this witness account in a comment on Channel 9's news post about it
"Cameron Frewer You have no idea what you are talking about! My partner was standing at the lights and witnessed the entire tragedy unfold. The truck was in the left hand lane waiting to turn left onto the bridge. They cyclist came up on his left and stopped in line with his passenger side door (so therefore the truck driver had no idea he was there) the lights turned green, the cyclist took off, got clipped by the truck and fell off his bike and was run over and dragged underneath. The truck driver didn’t even know it happened and my partner chased him along the road to stop. This was an absolutely horrific accident. How about you stop making judgements on people before you know the facts."
Impossible to know how reliable that comment is; though it's terrible, whatever happened. Anyway, here's the (very brief) police update, since Tele links tend to disappear and/or get paywalled over time:Scintilla wrote:
And further comment (from Cycle - Members Forum FB page) suggests *much* more. It is a real tragedy, and a lesson for all to learn about riding anywhere around trucks
Do NOT go up alongside stopped trucks !!!Saw this witness account in a comment on Channel 9's news post about it
"Cameron Frewer You have no idea what you are talking about! My partner was standing at the lights and witnessed the entire tragedy unfold. The truck was in the left hand lane waiting to turn left onto the bridge. They cyclist came up on his left and stopped in line with his passenger side door (so therefore the truck driver had no idea he was there) the lights turned green, the cyclist took off, got clipped by the truck and fell off his bike and was run over and dragged underneath. The truck driver didn’t even know it happened and my partner chased him along the road to stop. This was an absolutely horrific accident. How about you stop making judgements on people before you know the facts."
There was a bit more info in the MM thread before the rider passed away. Apparently silentC was on the ride that day.Scintilla wrote:silentC wrote:Police appeal for witnesses after cyclist dies following incident at Lochiel
https://aboutregional.com.au/police-app ... t-lochiel/WHAT.... is this all about?? Very suspicious implications.Initial inquiries suggest a 37-year-old man stopped his Nissan utility to speak with the cyclist prior to the crash.
silentC wrote:We had a rider down on Saturday. Not much is known except that he was trailing the bunch by some distance as they rode past a car that was pulled over to the side of the road in the middle of nowhere. Then a few minutes later the bunch was pulled over by another car letting them know a rider had come off. When they went back he was unconscious. Ambulance was called. The driver of the car that was pulled over has passed the bunch some distance back and has apparently stopped to have a discussion with the group about the dangers of cycling. Other than that we don't know what transpired but the rider ended up with a brain injury, several broken ribs and fractured pelvis.
--- Sadly this rider has since passed away. I understand there is an ongoing police investigation into the circumstances.
Garbage truck driver downed two beers before deadly collision with Australian tourist: police
Cops collected two empty beer cans from the cab of a drunken garbage truck driver after his fatal collision with an Australian tourist, prosecutors said Saturday.
Felipe Chairez, 44, faced drunken-driving and other charges at a hearing one day after 23-year-old Madison Jane Lyden landed beneath the wheels of his truck while bicycling uptown in the Central Park West bike lanes.
The empties were found inside Chairez’s vehicle following the fatal accident before horrified West Side witnesses. Chairez was headed from a Greenwich Village construction site to a Bronx dump around 4:45 p.m. when Lyden swerved to avoid a livery car parked illegally in the bike lane near W. 67th St.
Chairez, a driver with the Mellifont Construction Corporation in Orangeburg, Rockland County, remained at the scene following the crash. Once police arrived, cops noticed the goateed driver appeared to be drunk and Chairez acknowledged drinking two brews before the accident.
He was charged with drunken driving, driving while impaired and operating a commercial vehicle while intoxicated, prosecutors said. While the standard for drunken driving is a blood alcohol level of .08, a reading of .04 or higher is sufficient in the case of commercial vehicle drivers.
Defense attorney Kenneth Ware mounted a unique culinary defense for his client, claiming Chairez could be cleared by the chicken salad sandwich that he downed along with the beers.
“If what they say is true, that he had a chicken salad sandwich — then if he had alcohol, the alcohol may have been able to be absorbed by his lunch he had,” Ware said. “If that’s true … All he is charged with right now is a misdemeanor.”
The 17-year veteran truck driver had no previous arrests and no history of problems while working for Mellifont, added Ware.
Scintilla wrote:Outrageous that the hire-car driver who caused this tragic death is not being prosecuted
I agree, but it ain't going to happenopik_bidin wrote:yup outrageous, the main cause was the blocked lane, that should be prosecuted
The wanted driver.Insp McGregor said the Mercedes was stolen in an aggravated robbery in Elsternwick last week....
....Shocked onlookers told the Herald Sun the driver calmly removed items from the back seat of the car before running off.
Yes I probably said a bit more there than I should have had I known the rider was not going to make it. I wasn't with that group on the day, I went out with an earlier group and only saw these guys on my return leg as they were heading out, the incident occurred on their way back about 2 hours later. I know a little bit more than what has been reported but only through talking to the other riders in that group. It is the subject of an ongoing investigation and as far as we know, no charges have been laid at this stage. I will update the thread if anything more is announced publicly.uart wrote:There was a bit more info in the MM thread before the rider passed away. Apparently silentC was on the ride that day.Scintilla wrote:silentC wrote:Police appeal for witnesses after cyclist dies following incident at Lochiel
https://aboutregional.com.au/police-app ... t-lochiel/WHAT.... is this all about?? Very suspicious implications.Initial inquiries suggest a 37-year-old man stopped his Nissan utility to speak with the cyclist prior to the crash.
http://www.bicycles.net.au/forums/viewt ... 0#p1453780
silentC wrote:We had a rider down on Saturday. Not much is known except that he was trailing the bunch by some distance as they rode past a car that was pulled over to the side of the road in the middle of nowhere. Then a few minutes later the bunch was pulled over by another car letting them know a rider had come off. When they went back he was unconscious. Ambulance was called. The driver of the car that was pulled over has passed the bunch some distance back and has apparently stopped to have a discussion with the group about the dangers of cycling. Other than that we don't know what transpired but the rider ended up with a brain injury, several broken ribs and fractured pelvis.
--- Sadly this rider has since passed away. I understand there is an ongoing police investigation into the circumstances.
....and the version translated into australian for the edification of local audiences....Ross wrote:http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny- ... story.html
Garbage truck driver downed two beers before deadly collision with Australian tourist: police
Cops collected two empty beer cans from the cab of a drunken garbage truck driver after his fatal collision with an Australian tourist, prosecutors said Saturday.
Felipe Chairez, 44, faced drunken-driving and other charges at a hearing one day after 23-year-old Madison Jane Lyden landed beneath the wheels of his truck while bicycling uptown in the Central Park West bike lanes.
The empties were found inside Chairez’s vehicle following the fatal accident before horrified West Side witnesses. Chairez was headed from a Greenwich Village construction site to a Bronx dump around 4:45 p.m. when Lyden swerved to avoid a livery car parked illegally in the bike lane near W. 67th St.
Chairez, a driver with the Mellifont Construction Corporation in Orangeburg, Rockland County, remained at the scene following the crash. Once police arrived, cops noticed the goateed driver appeared to be drunk and Chairez acknowledged drinking two brews before the accident.
He was charged with drunken driving, driving while impaired and operating a commercial vehicle while intoxicated, prosecutors said. While the standard for drunken driving is a blood alcohol level of .08, a reading of .04 or higher is sufficient in the case of commercial vehicle drivers.
Defense attorney Kenneth Ware mounted a unique culinary defense for his client, claiming Chairez could be cleared by the chicken salad sandwich that he downed along with the beers.
“If what they say is true, that he had a chicken salad sandwich — then if he had alcohol, the alcohol may have been able to be absorbed by his lunch he had,” Ware said. “If that’s true … All he is charged with right now is a misdemeanor.”
The 17-year veteran truck driver had no previous arrests and no history of problems while working for Mellifont, added Ware.
ABC coverage Chapel St hit-and-run: Man arrested over Melbourne collision that killed Dutch cyclistScintilla wrote:Police arrest over the horrible Chapel St stolen car hit-run. Great news!
https://www.facebook.com/9NewsMelbourne ... 809096009/
It is good news, although based on recent form, the Victorian prosecutor will fall for whatever sob story this cyclist-killing #$%^wit can conjure up.Scintilla wrote:Police arrest over the horrible Chapel St stolen car hit-run. Great news!
https://www.facebook.com/9NewsMelbourne ... 809096009/
For those who don't want to read it, he exposes NY mayor Bill de Blasio's double speak. de Blasio said the other day:P!N20 wrote:Bit of context regarding the tragedy in NYC by Eben Weiss aka Bike Snob: https://www.transalt.org/bike-forecast/ ... -13th-2018
I suspect because they'll come down hard on him, because he's "a criminal", rather than a respectable young woman who teaches horse riding.madmacca wrote:It is good news, although based on recent form, the Victorian prosecutor will fall for whatever sob story this cyclist-killing #$%^wit can conjure up.Scintilla wrote:Police arrest over the horrible Chapel St stolen car hit-run. Great news!
https://www.facebook.com/9NewsMelbourne ... 809096009/