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Old 05-29-10 | 08:14 AM
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Jay was killed biking home from work more than a week ago in Tempe. Investigators said he was hit by a car as he rode through a crosswalk at McClintock and Alameda drives.
“He sold his second car with the idea that he would take up biking and ride to work which is probably 10 to 12 miles away,” said Jay’s father, John Fretz. “He knew that was a dangerous thing to do.”

I would want to know more about the incident. Learn from it, and if I had anything in common with this tragedy, see if I could make changes. I would not call riding a bike dangerous, any more than I would call the rest of life's activities, including being sedentary, dangerous. I am also having trouble understanding what "rode through a cross walk" means. If it means that he was riding on the sidewalk and using the crosswalks to go through intersections, it has long been an A&S tennet that riding in pedestrian areas is more dangerous than riding in traffic. I also have a family, but refuse to stop living because it might kill me. I did mitigate my guilt and fears with a mondo life insurance policy.
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