Sometimes it Sucks to be a Bicyclist
June 7, 2008 · Print This Article
Imagine taking part in a weekend bike race, merrily pedaling along without a care in the world, when suddenly a car seems to be coming straight at you. Before you have time to move, it has plowed into the crowd, sending cyclists up into the air. This horrific photo shows just that, and the result was one dead cyclist and ten injured.
From CNN:
The 28-year-old driver was apparently drunk and fell asleep when he crashed into the race, said police investigator Jose Alfredo Rodriguez.
A photograph taken by a city official showed bicyclists and equipment being hurled high into the air by the collision.
It’s things like this that make people afraid to ride bicycles in the roads. I still maintain that it should be harder to get and keep a driver’s license. There are way too many people out there that barely know what they’re doing, and the fact is, every time you get behind the wheel you become operator of a huge piece of dangerous machinery that, as illustrated here, could easily take out a crowd.
Link [CNN]
Photo credit: Jose Fidelino Vera Hernandez / AP
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OUCH.
When I was learning to drive my mother would always remind me that i was not learning to drive a car, but a “killing machine”. Thanks for th lesson mom. looks like more people need it though.
It’s people like this who made it hard for me to convince my mom to let me ride my bike to school.