I thought the Liberals wanted us to share the road?
Posted on 09/01/2009 4:12:02 AM PDT by kanawa
Toronto - A cyclist was killed and the driver of a Saab convertible has been arrested after a serious crash on Bloor Street near Avenue Road on Monday night.
Police sources told 680News the driver of the Saab has been identified as Michael Bryant, the province's former attorney general and economic development minister.
Witnesses told police the driver and the 33-year-old cyclist got into an argument at Bay and Bloor streets and then there was contact between the bicycle and the car.
Police said the cyclist grabbed onto the car and was then dragged about 150 metres along Bloor Street to east of Avenue Road --- he was hanging onto the driver's-side headrest.
The driver pulled into the Hyatt hotel and called police.
The cyclist was rushed to hospital and pronounced dead.
Bryant, 43, will appear in court Tuesday morning for a bail hearing.
Bloor Street is shut down between Bay Street and Avenue Road, and it's expected to remain closed into the morning rush hour.
Bryant recently left provincial politics to work for a city agency. He is the chief executive officer with Invest Toronto, the newly formed City of Toronto agency designed to attract business to the city.
Prior to that, he was a rising star in the McGuinty government, serving as attorney general, and recently, the economic development minister during the auto restructuring talks at Chrysler and General Motors. He was also previously minister of aboriginal affairs.
He also presided over the province's ban on pitbulls and Ontario's crackdown on street racing and drunk driving
Ping
Reports are that Bryant drove up onto the sidewalk
in order to smash the cyclist into a fire hydrant.
I thought the Liberals wanted us to share the road?
Oops, for a second there I thought I had stumbled upon another Ted Kennedy thread.
RIP.
“My dog has killed less people than this arrogant SOB.”
Back in the 70’s and before Chernobyl I saw a guy in LAX wearing a sandwich board that said “More people have died in Ted Kennedy’s car than in nuclear power station accidents”
He doesn't look so cocky sittting in the back of a police cruiser...
LOL. I want one of those.
I wonder if he was drinking?
Yeah, sure.
Toronto police have officially charged Mr. Bryant with criminal negligence causing death and dangerous driving causing death, after a collision left a 33-year-old cyclist dead.
Darcy Allan Sheppard, 33, died in a fatal accident involving former Ontario attorney-general Michael Bryant on Monday night.
I expect he would be tested but I've heard no mention of it.
He had better been!
The police should state if alcohol was or was not a factor.
I'm curious as well as to the identity of the woman in the car with him.
I take it this guy is behind the dog ban idea up there.
Good riddance.
Hi Sam!
I'm curious as well as to the identity of the woman in the car with him.
I know what you mean. Hubby and I asked the same question this morning. Is he married?
To tell the truth I'm not even sure he cared deeply about the issue.
It purpose was purely political.
He ginned up hysteria to make himself look good.
Well... it turns out it was him that was the 'ticking time bomb'
and him that 'snapped'
Sam asks,
"Who left these treats on the floor?"
The cyclist had been drinking!
The woman in the passenger’s seat was his wife. She and the driver were attacked by the cyclist.
Was that before or after Bryant is reported to have deliberately hit the cyclist's bike?
Which report has the cyclist attacking the woman?
According to today's reports, you are correct.
Very interesting that you signed up just to post on this, though.
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