Originally Posted by DogBoy
The part of the story I thought didn't belong was "The crash happened just a few blocks from a bike trail." It implies that she should have been on the bike trail.
How so? Perhaps the intent of the reporter was to give a description as to the general location or to perhaps make note of the trail as that may have been her point of origin or destination.
The same goes for the lack of helmet comment. News articles concerning vehicular accidents will often contain the statement as to whether the occupants were wearing seatbelts or if the vehicle had airbags. Since wearing a helmet is considered a "norm", the lack of one is noted.
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This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.