[77Univega]

--- This news item just in from Eureka, CA:

The Times-Standard
May 27, 2005
EUREKA -- The Eureka Police Department responded to an accident earlier this week that had all the potential for a tragedy.
Police responded to the 1900 block of Broadway at 4:31 p.m. Tuesday to a report of a collision between a vehicle and a bicycle that was pulling a child trailer.
When the police arrived, they found a bicycle intact, but the two-wheeled child trailer it had been pulling was crushed. No children were in the carrier.
Police said the bicyclist had been riding on the wrong side of the road, against traffic when the accident occurred.

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[bennyk]

well, that could have been worse.

bk

[eubi]

That doesn't make any sense...how can the trailer get crushed if he was riding against traffic?

I'm not doubting the article, but at the same time it's not passing my smell test.

[DCCommuter]

The headline got my heart going, glad to see it was a false alarm.

I could see the trailer getting crushed and the bicycle unharmed if he was crossing an intersection or a driveway and got the old left hook.

[77Univega]

That doesn't make any sense...how can the trailer get crushed if he was riding against traffic?
--- The newspaper article gave no details on exactly how the collision occurred. There was an accompanying picture of the bike with the crushed trailer still attached.

[lilHinault]

Or, crossing an intersection the wrong way, on the sidewalk, and a car impatient to make a right turn doesn't notice the low-lying trailer behind the bike.

[CPcyclist]

Cyclist wrong, car worng both should get tickets. WTF how could the car not see the trailer, most are bright yellow? The smell test is failing.

[Helmet Head]

Car drivers turning right are often looking only to the left, assuming that no one is coming from the right, that's how he could possibly not see the trailer - not looking.

[pseudobrit]

Wrong way cycling: deadly and illegal.

Here's some real world proof that didn't have to illustrate the "deadly" part quite so literally.

[Bob Gabele]

Whatever the details....Don't ever ride AGAINST traffic!

[ehammarlund]

the traileris wider than the bike. And if the bike swerves sharply towards the side of the road (as it might were a car about to hit the rider) the rear of the trailer could be a fair bit roadward of the cyclist.