Posted on 07/30/2019 12:05:44 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
... The driver of the van told CBS2’s Lisa Rozner he feels horrible.
“It is AGAINST the law to open a car door into the path of a cyclist. Our lives are in each other’s hands. We must act like it,” Mayor Bill de Blasio wrote on Twitter. “Rising cyclist fatalities are a crisis. We will do everything in our power to stop them.”
“Pay attention. Drivers must pay attention to make sure that they will be able to see there is not a cyclist coming,” said Assemblyman Felix Ortiz, who lives a block away from the scene of the accident.
“It’s scary just to think about the possibility that my life is on the line every time I bike ride just to go to work,” cyclist Miguel Gomez said. “I’ve been doored plenty of times. I’ve been doored, like, four times. Luckily, I don’t ride that fast just because I want to be safe, but yeah, it’s a scary thing. It happens all the time.”
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I’m of the opinion that some streets should be reduced in speed to account for bicycles, but routes chosen should not interfere with main street traffic flows.
There are a lot of accident involving only cars that happen like that too.
Definitely many more across the country than involve bicycles.
Either that truck, or the bicycles should be removed from the streets.
I LIVE here. Still have family in Brooklyn that I visit.
The bikers have NO regard for their own lives so why should the drivers?
EVERY CORNER is a busy thoroughfare in the boroughs.
#### em.
This is about number 1,000,000,000 on my list of concerns.
This story has two sides. Bike riders consistently run red lights, stop in the middle of crosswalks so the pedestrians have to go around them, go the wrong way on a one-way street, and ride on the sidewalk (the worst, in my opinion, especially at night). The street that I live on has narrow sidewalks, made narrower by the trees and flower beds on the street side. Many times I have had a cyclist speed past me at night with no sound as warning.
At least on Fire Island it was the rule to beep your horn if you were coming up behind someone.
I have noted the restaurant that they come from and told them I was going to report them, but I never did because I hate that kind of thing. I also remind them of the law, as if they need reminding, and I am the only person who does so. If you ever hear anyone else telling them off, let me know.
Now they are bolder and answer me back: “The traffic is too heavy to ride in the street” (this one mostly in the Village) or “I’m just riding from the corner to here” (which just happened to be where I was walking). And a lot worse remarks, which I won’t repeat here.
As always, they are PC for riding a bike and so they are self-righteous. The illegals are the only ones who apologize or get out of your way.
I’m surprised how many pedestrians and cyclists just assume you see them; plenty of auto drivers do the same, but they have a little more protection. I’ve driven in some parks in NY state where on winding roads you come around a winding curve with short sight lines upon four bicyclists riding abreast - absolutely crazy.
I get the same impression when I see people driving mixed with bicyclists in India; while it seems like mayhem, very few accidents.
Are there many cyclists riding into the doors of cement mixers and tractor-trailer trucks?
, was killed by a tractor-trailer truck at West 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue. The driver was cited for equipment violations.
June 27 – Ernest Askew, 57, was killed by a car at Chester Street and Sutter Avenue in Brownsville, Brooklyn.
July 1 – Devra Freelander, 28, was killed by a cement truck at Boerum Street and Bushwick Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
July 23 – Alex Cordero, 17, was killed by tow truck at Castleton Avenue and Clove Road in the West Brighton section of Staten Island.
July 23 – A 58-year-old man was killed by a box truck at McGuiness Boulevard and Norman Avenue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
July 29 – A 30-year-old woman was killed by a tractor-trailer
It would be interesting to see how many are “courier” riders on bikes. Also would be interesting to see how many motor vehicle/pedestrian accidents/deaths.
also de Blassio wants $58 Million
https://nypost.com/2019/07/25/de-blasios-58m-bike-safety-plan-panned-by-drivers-and-cyclists/
Mixing bikes with vehicular traffic is reckless and irresponsible.
“Pedestrian deaths rise in NYC during 2018, new city data show”
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-news-nyc-traffic-deaths-decline-20181228-story.html
I spent my entire 5 years of college riding in and out several miles each way to school, sometimes twice a day. I observed several accidents, none involving me.* Bikers (and “bikers”) have to be super-defensive, but some are not. Some are just idiots, or foolhardy. I’d say about half those accidents I saw were the bikers’ fault. Luckily, none involved severe injuries.
*That’s not to say I never had a bike accident - I had a couple doosies B4 college. But none involved cars or pedestrians.
Same thing with all the "crisis" events happening in NYC. Every time someone dies by non-natural causes, the Mayor proclaims a "crisis".
Someone falls out a window: crisis.
Kid gets left in a car: crisis.
Little old lady gets hit in the crosswalk: crisis.
Bicycle rider gets clipped: crisis
NYers are numb to this word. We now see them for what they are; a chance to implement some sort of tax or redistribution scheme where revenue disappears into a black hole never to be accounted for. No thanks.
I always rode with the mentality that drivers could not see me or were hostile to me and I could not expect any courtesy from vehicle drivers at all. Consequently, I made sure I was safe.
I rode for about ten years with no problems.
So the bicyclist swerved into traffic rather that hit the car door? Then the bicyclist either was going too fast to brake in time and/or was unaware of current traffic and chose to turn into an oncoming semi rather than the less risky choice of ploughing into the car door.
Sure, ticket the car driver for opening his/her door in the path of the cyclist, but the car driver wasn’t the only idiot on the roadway.
I would be interested in knowing how many of these dead cyclists were obeying traffic laws when they were killed...
Along with climate change and all the other leftist tropes, promotion of bicycles is aimed at ridding the world of evil cars.
In the major city near where I live bicycles have been given ‘never wrong’ status; if you clip a bicycle, no matter the circumstances you are guilty.
Subjugated people ride bicycles and mass transit and are very easy to control.
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