Posted on 12/10/2020 9:38:57 PM PST by BenLurkin
A group of cyclists were riding and had a Subaru hatchback "safety car" assigned to trail them when they were hit about 9:30 a.m. on southbound U.S. Highway 95 near Mile Marker 36, according to Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Travis Smaka.
A southbound truck "entered into the group of bicyclists, some of them were traveling behind the safety vehicle, they were struck, the safety vehicle was also struck as well as some the bicyclists in front of the safety vehicle," Smaka said.
The five cyclists were pronounced dead at the scene, south of Boulder City and north of Searchlight. One bicyclist suffered critical injuries and was airlifted to University Medical Center, officials said.
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"...evidence in defense of the truck driver..."
WTF is the “Trace”?
To me that is something to do with art supplies and “onion skin” thin paper.
Same here.
Have to agree, I don’t ride on the road much anymore for just that reason. With older guys at least there is some caution but young guys just want to drop the hammer and “share the road” means they do what they want. Ironic to hear bitching about drivers while rolling thru stop signs, etc. I decided I didn’t have anything to prove and stick to bike trails and backroads nowadays.
[A coworker’s dear daughter was hit and killed when her car broke down on side of the road a couple months ago.]
That was my thought as well.
"...people being in the traffic lanes..."
LOL...Get real. Have you ever driven on a wide open desert highway? Some of the truckers are moving along at 80 and 90 ++mph out there. Of course if people are out there in traffic lanes riding around on their bicycles, they’re going to get busted up and killed. Trust me here.
I gave up in riding public roads when I got blindsided by a “Karen” on a short hill that had signs “Cyclists TAKE the lane”. Yup, even the I want your manager”? WTF!
Wanna buy a Sweet mid weight road bike?
So what. Wouldn't you slow down if you came upon a bunch of people on bicycles on a highway? I agree that it was dumb of them, and of the driver of the vehicle that should have been *trailing* them with emergency lights on.
So what if they were riding bicycles on a desert highway where people routinely drive at 90+ mph?
Really? Be truthful here, do you really think that’s a safe and sane thing to do on a bicycle?
"...Trust me here..."
Things happen real fast on highways like this. People are used to driving 2 and 3 hours at high speed...No stops, no nothing...Then suddenly you get some suicidal people who thought riding their bicycles out there 20mph was a good idea?
Trust me here. Some of the collisions going to and from Vegas area look like aircraft crashes. Not a place to be bicycling.
Wrong. They only slammed into the rear of the idiot who was out on a desert highway driving at about 20mph, after first mowing down the bicyclist who were traveling BEHIND their so called safety vehicle.
"...safe and sane..."
Since there was physical evidence all over the place, why do you think didn’t the cops cite, arrest, and or charge the driver of the truck?
If it was a long straight stretch that’s even less of an excuse for the driver not, or barely, slowing down. He would obviously have been able to see them well in advance. Coming around a turn, that’s a whole different situation.
We responded to a bicyclist who was hit by a truck while he was riding several feet out of the traffic lane on the right shoulder. His body ended up in the ditch on the left shoulder, but his shoes and bicycle ended up on the other side of chain link fence on the right side of the road.
The trucker was fooling with his phone and drove onto the shoulder. There were a bunch of witnesses and they all stood around while the unconscious cyclist drowned in 6 inches of water in the ditch.
But since you are so knowledgeable of what can be sold in court... explain the physics of how that happened.
Here in Oregon we have windy, narrow mountain roads with no shoulder, and jackass bicyclists who ride at 20 mph in the middle of the road, where cars and trucks are doing 55 mph, it’s complete lunacy!
I don’t know if that’s what happened here, but we need to start closing roads down to cyclists if there’s so little margin of error.
“There is no bike lane out there but there are bicycle debris all over the traffic lanes.”
Do you actually think that the bike riders equipment, gear and pieces of the bike, are going to stay in one place when hit by a truck doing 70MPH.
Have you every heard of physics or even played a game of pool?
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