In the week since a 19-year-old woman plowed into a group of bicyclists on a New Hampshire bicycle ride — killing two and injuring two others — police have charged three people in connection with the crash.
Police are investigating everyone related to the tragic case. Early on, they had been criticized for not doing …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/09/28/now-3-people-charged-in-connection-with-new-hampshire-bike-ride-tragedy/
The parents of a nursing student killed by a drunken driver as she rode her bicycle home from the library at Chico State University in California wrote the following heart-felt letter.
It shows how the irresponsible actions can have far-reaching consequences.
“The body of our daughter, Kristina Chesterman, lies upstairs at Enloe Medical Center waiting to be used to help other patients in need of organ donations. ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/09/26/parents-of-bicyclist-seek-maximum-penalty-for-drunken-driver-after-fatality-in-california/
The 19-year-old woman who drove a car into a group of bicyclists — killing two and injuring two others — as they participated in an organized bike ride on Saturday is sitting in a jail cell in New Hampshire.
Some are saying that if the police had put her in jail when they stopped her for speeding and driving without a license 8 hours before the fatal crash, then the tragedy on the coastal New Hampshire bridge never would have taken place.
Meanwhile, police made a second arrest on Wednesday that sheds more light on the tragedy. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/09/25/a-second-arrest-in-crash-that-killed-two-bicyclists-on-new-hampshire-bike-ride/
Update: Sept. 23, 2013 — Police had cited the driver for speeding on the bridge just 8 hours before the crash and confiscated her car after she admitted to not having a driver’s license. More below…
Sept. 22, 2013 — Horrible news from the Granite State Wheelmen Tri-State Seacoast Century bike ride on Saturday….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/09/22/2-bicyclists-killed-and-2-injured-in-new-hampshire-bicycle-event/
Update: A 54-year-old male bicyclist died in a collision with a semi-truck Wednesday morning in Seattle at the intersection of South Hanford Street and East Marginal Way South.
The cyclist was identified as Lance David of Federal Way, an avid cyclist. Reports say he regularly pedaled more than 5,000 miles a year and rode from …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/05/01/bicyclist-killed-in-south-seattle-collision-with-a-semi-truck/
Bicycling deaths were on the rise in 2011.
A report issued by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration finds that 677 bicyclists died in traffic in 2011. That’s a 8.7% increase over 2010, when 623 bicyclists died.
That reverses a trend of two straight years of decreasing fatalities for bicyclists. The number of bicyclist deaths …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2012/12/11/bicycle-fatalities-increase-in-2011/
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