Spinz

https://www.news-record.com/content/2...in_death_probe

stll no arrest ------- Lp

C_Heath

Dang, thats a little close to home for me. 45 minutes. Driver was probably F'ing Texting. Speaking of which, I cut mine off last week.

When I see these posts about cycling deaths, I always play it down by saying, "well, thats in a big city and I dont have that many people in my town and I ride rural roads". Well, I know that street and its pretty calm. Wrong place at the wrong time. Godspeed to him and prayers to his family, what a wasted loss.

Godspeed †

dcbikeguy

Thanks for the death thread. We need more of these.

patentcad

I liked this comment under the article:

onetrickydudeOctober 27, 2009 - 3:30 am EDT
Maybe this will get some of these bicyclist off of the roads and into parks and such.

Way too dangerous to ride those slow little things on pretty much any road.

Don't understand why people have to wastefully end there life peddling around wearing spandex

Way to many safer ways to get fit and many many safer places to ride bicycles than on the streets

X-LinkedRider

Ha ha. Yeah I am always so excited to check out BF but then inevitably I come across one of these and my mood changes severely. But it is news and it does show multiple things that we can change and improve.

"Learn From The Past, Live For The Future."

dgalati

I just saw that too, made me want to punch that guy in the face.

dooodstevenn

here's another great quote..

truthteller

October 27, 2009 - 6:41 am EDT Bicyclists want automobile drivers to be courteous, yet these same bicycle riders are ignorant enough to ride on Greensboro's busy streets at 10 mph holding up traffic, causing accidents and delays. If someone decided to ride a skateboard on Greensbor's streets and hold up traffic, they would be arrested, but if a bike rider does the same thing, they get way with it.

Randochap

When I read the comments on articles like this, I want to move to Antarctica and study penguin mating rituals.

Campag4life

Pcad...I know you said it tongue and cheek but that guy is largely right except being too stupid to understand the allure of cycling....and he reflects how the ignorant fat American public in particular feels about cycling on fast moving roads. I try to stay off them. I know many ride 45-55mph two lane roads here where I live...see them all the time...many times at dusk without a helmet even with no shoulder...many cyclists do but they are taking their life into their own hands. Just takes one inattentive driver and your life is ruined if not extinguished and roadways abound with such drivers.

Good Luck to us all. Now that the weather is turned, I am cycling on paths largely in the woods on my mtb and a whole lot safer and almost as much fun.

10 Wheels

Would you ride this road?

Flatballer

Something doesn't make sense. Damage to left front of vehicle, and vehicle was traveling left of center, and rear-ended the cyclist?

Either way, RIP.

Reynolds 

Why not?
Now if there were 18 wheelers there, that'd be another story...

Jaeger

Yeah, with a little over 700 cyclists deaths per year in the U.S. we should be able to get two of these per day. If we aren't getting one every morning and evening we're clearly missing out on the news.

knobster

Sorry to hear of such a tragedy. I lived in Greensboro for a few years and I hated riding anywhere near the city. So many redneck idiots that hate cyclist. So many times I've came close to getting killed that I decided never to ride anywhere near the city limits.

bellweatherman

This doesn't surprise me. That whole southeast area (North, South Carolina) are filled with a bunch of prejudiced hicks that hate cyclists. One of the prettiest areas in the country with some of the most asinine, mentally-incompetent people around.

PeddlingPilgrim

...weird article... it says the family of the driver is being cooperative. YET they seem more interested in drawing out the legal process rather than admitting fault in taking the life of another person. i'm still amazed @ how people become so desensitized & callous.

AFPJ

Nice stereotype, a$$munch. I live in WA and this place is filled with "prejudiced hicks that hate cyclists". What's up now?

gkelley

^
Naw, people in the northwest are pretty chill, unlike the a$$munches in the Carolina's

Flatballer

Meh, I live in NC, and he's pretty close. It's not bad in the cities (where the rich folk live) but outside, it gets stupid fast. Sad but true. I get flipped off or yelled at at least once per 20 miles.

Stereotypes are based on truth ya know.

Campag4life

True. And it isn't necessarily hicks that run down cyclists. More like drunk, old with bad eyesight, or young text messaging or not paying attention. Perhaps more dangerous for cyclists than ever before.
And hicks are everywhere, in all rural areas of America that hate cyclists in spandex. They may taunt cyclists and even brush them back but aren't the ones necessarily that run them right over. Personally, I won't ride on 45-55mph 2 lane roads. Not that my life it that valuable...I just don't want to risk it. I am an avid motorcyclist btw. The difference is I have the horsepower to outrun all the jacka$$es out there.

sonik90

"4000 pound death barge"

bellweatherman

I don't get it. You live in Washington and if I am interpretting your reply correctly you are stating that your area (WA) is filled with "prejudiced hicks that hate cyclists", but you seem offended by my statement that it is the Southeast part of the country that has the intolerant drivers.

Whatever the case, sorry to upset you. I've traveled and ridden all over the USA and in some places in Europe too. In my opinion, the drivers in the area I described are the WORST around. By far! There shouldn't even be a 2nd or 3rd place. They are just that bad. They drive around in a bad mood, completely uneducated as to the laws of the road, and laws in general. And really, its not so much that they aren't uneducated about the rules of the road, they are just plain ignorant. Period! Too bad, it's a beautiful part of the country.

C_Heath

Update: An arrest has been made. She looks like a drunk. Probably was........Anyhow Godspeed to this guy, he paid the ultimate price......

bellweatherman

Poor guy. Where is the link to the arrest of the lady that killed him?

sammabe

Unfortunately alot of these "stereotypes" about the south and cycling are fairly true. I live close to Greensboro, where this guy was hit.

Lets not forget this, which happened a few months earlier https://www.wyff4.com/news/20187786/detail.html . This happened not so far away as well.