Road rage kills
The SUV that moved to center to avoid being passed…also is culpable maybe more so
The accident occurred 20 minutes after the sun went down, a very dangerous time of day.
Its beyond horrible- they were saying it was an unspeakable tragedy and certainly it is...
I’ve not read if they came to a final conclusion if alcohol was involved in the auto death of Minnesota rookie CB Khyree Jackson, though cops suspected the car that him his vehicle had a drunk driver...
what a tragedy for the cyclists, their families. it will crush the happiness and joy of the impending wedding event. it’s impossible not to feel this deeply.
Wow. this is huge news in the hockey world.
So very sad
He was the son of a classmate in college. Nice family.
This is really sad news.
He'll be taking showers in prison in a hurry, presently.
This should be a death penalty offense
Sunset was about 7:30 p.m.
I wonder what kind of lights they had on the bikes.
Maybe the SUV driver saw Higgins driving erratically and saw the cyclists and tried to protect them.
“The SUV in front of Higgins moved to the middle of the roadway, splitting the north and south lanes...”
That guy is 100% culpable as well...
Back in 1985, I was like 29 at the time, and after a wreck on my bike, I made the choice to never ever ride a motorcycle.
I was living in Columbus GA, and I was heading North on a road that veered to the right off the main road. The road I took veered onto was angled to the right as it created a new new road. It was like a V type fork and I took the new road and kept cruising. Within like 50 feet there was a K-Mart on the right with an entrance and exit to the right. That’s when a woman pulled out of the driveway without looking for me on my bike.
I began to slow down but she stopped. So I gunned my gas to start going and that’s when she decided to pull out right in front of me. I swerved to the left to avoid her, because I was traveling about 30 mph and could nit stop. As I did, my front wheel hit some gravel and bounced enough to cause my bike to lay down on the right side.
I was still on the bike as it slid down the road towards oncoming traffic. I was a passenger on a bike that I was no longer in control of. I slid like 30 feet and as I braced to impact a Garbage truck coming my way.
I had a highway bar was keeping me from rubbing my right leg on the pavement of the road, and just a few seconds before I hit the garbage truck, he stooped. As I hit him my left highway bar bent over my left leg and I got wedged under the front bumper of the truck. My helmet hit the Big bumper and I laid there for about 5 minutes as I tried to collect my thoughts.
I was finally able to get unhedged with the help of the truck driver who kept telling me,
“I saw the whole thing, I saw the whole thing. Yes sir it wasn’t your fault. That lady was crazy. I’ll go to court for you and testify, yes sir I saw the whole thing. I thank God I was able to stop or I might have killed you. Yes sir, I saw the whole thing unfold in front of me.”
He was an old black guy who seemed more jittery and scared than I was. The woman tried to take off, but a couple other drivers who saw it stopped her from leaving. My bike was wrecked, she had no insurance and all I had was liability, so my bike was not covered.
That day I decided that while I trust my driving, I have no faith n others. So I never road a motorcycle again.
That is really sad. But so preventable.
While I enjoy cycling, I don’t like trusting that the motor vehicle drivers are paying attention. Therefore, I ride on roads where I might encounter about 1 or 2 vehicles per mile of ride. If there is no oncoming traffic, I simply move to the oncoming lane WELL in advance of a vehicle closing from behind. I know there are rules against that, but the county sheriff cruisers that have seen me do that just ignore it.
If there is traffic from both ways and no bicycle lane, I GET OFF the road.
I also don’t wear a headset or earbuds when riding. I quit being a music addict over 40 years ago.
If just getting exercise, and not goingvanywhere in particular, I would do laps in vacant lot, like I did when I hauled my bike along on the OTR semi truck.
Nowadays I live near a county road with some side deadend roads. Pretty easy to ride 7 miles and maybe not meet one vehicle.
Very sad.
A county road at night is no place to be riding bicycles.
I’m not clear on configuration of the roadway. The excerpt said something about a middle lane, which sometimes means a two-way turn lane. Such a center lane makes for easy biking but is also dangerous, as drivers are not expecting to find unlighted vehicles there.