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Photo catches driver plowing into bike racers near U.S.-Mexico border, killing one
Associated Press ^
| 06/04/2008
Posted on 06/06/2008 8:12:24 AM PDT by george76
A car plowed into a bike race along a highway near the US-Mexico border, killing one and injuring 10 others.
Police investigator Jose Alfredo Rodriguez says the 28-year-old driver was apparently drunk ...
A photograph taken by a city official shows bicyclists and equipment being hurled high in to the air...
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
TOPICS: Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: again; aliens; bikerace; cyclist; cyclists; libertarians; mexico; monterrey
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posted on
06/06/2008 8:12:24 AM PDT
by
george76
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/06/2008 8:13:29 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76; Owl_Eagle; Sam's Army; Lazamataz; Darksheare; pissant; najida; r-q-tek86; blackie; ...
A picture is worth a thousand words......PING!!!!
Comment #4 Removed by Moderator
To: george76
Previously posted, with some comments and references to bowling:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2025117/posts
I haven’t heard any follow-up on this story as to what the driver may be getting charged with, or if the poor guys he ran over are recovering OK.
}:-)4
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posted on
06/06/2008 8:18:33 AM PDT
by
Moose4
(http://moosedroppings.wordpress.com -- Because 20 million self-important blogs just aren't enough.)
To: george76
Holy *****..
Mega prayers for the folks on the bikes.
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posted on
06/06/2008 8:19:34 AM PDT
by
mnehring
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To: george76
I can't say that I haven't wanted to do that to the road hogging cyclists, but that is a seriously scary picture.
To: Baynative
"I wonder, if I would have had the courage to stay there and let the drunk ram my car in order to protect the riders. Would you?"
I haven't seen that photo that includes the escort. That's interesting. In retrospect, it probably would have been best for the driver of the escort to take one for the team.
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posted on
06/06/2008 8:30:01 AM PDT
by
jaydubya2
To: Moose4
Thanks.
At least one is dead ?
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posted on
06/06/2008 8:32:12 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
No matter how much rhetoric and complaining cyclists expel about “sharing” the road it will never change the laws of physics as that photo displays.
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posted on
06/06/2008 8:33:13 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(McCain: The Third Bush Term ?)
To: jaydubya2
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posted on
06/06/2008 8:33:54 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
Comment #13 Removed by Moderator
To: Rebelbase; LucyT
At least one biker ( with the green shirt on the left ) got out of the way.
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posted on
06/06/2008 8:36:13 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
Amazing how this drunk POS was magnetically attracted to these bicyclists. He fell asleep at the wheel (so the story goes) just as he neared these day glow bicycle boys
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posted on
06/06/2008 8:37:02 AM PDT
by
dennisw
To: skeeter
Strike!PATHETIC COMMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
06/06/2008 8:39:42 AM PDT
by
al_c
(Avoid the consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity)
To: george76
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posted on
06/06/2008 8:39:46 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(McCain: The Third Bush Term ?)
To: dennisw; MtnClimber
The drunk may have just tried to correct his car, as it looks like he is trying to head back to the middle ?
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posted on
06/06/2008 8:42:00 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: Baynative
Monday Morning QB comment: What did the officer think would happen when he swerved out of the way of the drunk and exposed all those cyclists?
To: george76
Sad siutuation but amazing only one was killed. I’m working on a safety presentation today to give to my daughter’s driver ed class.
Too many motorists don’t know how to act around cyclists so I’m doing my small part.
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posted on
06/06/2008 8:48:25 AM PDT
by
cyclotic
(Support Scouting-Raising boys to be men, and politically incorrect at the same time.)
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