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Video captures Calif. hit-and-run, leads to arrest [car v. bicycle]
CBS News ^ | 4/28/12 | Unattributed

Posted on 04/28/2012 2:17:55 PM PDT by Huntress

(CBS News) BERKELEY, Calif. - Police have arrested an Oakland man who allegedly hit two bicyclists with his car and then fled - an incident caught on video by one of the cyclist's bike-mounted camera.

The hit-and-run occurred around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday on Tunnel Road in Berkeley, where the bicyclists were traveling east and were struck by a car traveling in the same direction, according to police.

One of the cyclists had a camera mounted on his handlebars. The video, posted on YouTube by brunogfmtube, shows a black car veer into both bicyclists at about the 2:40 mark.

The video had more than 100,000 views on YouTube as of Saturday morning.

According to CBS Station KPIX, Police Capt. Andrew Greenwood said the driver of the black vehicle did not stop afterward, as is required by law, so police treated it as a hit-and-run.

The riders, both of whom were wearing helmets, had abrasions from hitting the road but did not require hospitalization, according to Greenwood.

After the incident Wednesday, the suspect, Michael Medaglia, reported to the Oakland Police Department that his car had been stolen. A police alert was placed on the car.

KPIX reports that Oakland police found the vehicle Friday morning and alerted the Berkeley Police Department. After an examination of the vehicle, Berkeley police were led to Jack London Inn in Oakland, where officers contacted Medaglia late Friday afternoon.

He was arrested on suspicion of possession of heroin, felon in possession of ammunition, violation of probation and felony hit-and-run.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bicycle; cyclist
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From the video, it looks to me like the driver of the car was clearly at fault. That said, I couldn't help but notice the bicyclists blowing through two stop signs.
1 posted on 04/28/2012 2:17:58 PM PDT by Huntress
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To: Huntress

Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3LatOGCWVc


2 posted on 04/28/2012 2:18:31 PM PDT by Huntress ("Politicians exploit economic illiteracy." --Walter Williams)
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To: Huntress

Video captures both cyclists running a stop sign, too.


3 posted on 04/28/2012 2:24:04 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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In California they own the Roads. Real Jerks most of them, always blowing stop signs. Sometimes on weekends they come up here to the Rural Roads and play havoc, take the whole lanes and have to follow them for miles until safe to pass.


4 posted on 04/28/2012 2:30:59 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: Huntress
Yes, the car driver was wrong. As well the cyclist on multiple occasions, running stop signs, riding abreast in one lane.
5 posted on 04/28/2012 2:33:09 PM PDT by Theoria (Rush Limbaugh: Ron Paul sounds like an Islamic terrorist)
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To: Huntress
From the video, it looks to me like the driver of the car was clearly at fault.

Just because one is on a bike doesn't give them allowance to speed through a stop sign and expect a 1 ton vehicle not to hurt them.

Another close gene pool cleansing event there.

6 posted on 04/28/2012 2:33:21 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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must be them damn bicycle helmets and spandex pants that drive cage drivers to knock them over
7 posted on 04/28/2012 2:36:46 PM PDT by Gone_Postal
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To: Huntress
The person that hit them either did it deliberately of was texting. way into the lane that the cyclist were riding. As for the stop sign. If the road is clear and no cars are coming, I have to admit I've done the same thing.

I rarely ride outside anymore however, because auto v. cyclist is just not a good fight. I'll ride road races and fun rides only because of the cops around and the number of bikes, but for fun I'd rather walk than ride a bike.

8 posted on 04/28/2012 2:37:59 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (democrats are like flies, whatever they don't eat they sh#t on.)
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To: EGPWS

Did you notice the second sentence of my comment?


9 posted on 04/28/2012 2:39:23 PM PDT by Huntress ("Politicians exploit economic illiteracy." --Walter Williams)
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To: Huntress

Hmmmmmmmmm. Let me see. He ‘allegedly’ hit them, except video ‘shows’ him hitting them, and the police arrest him, NOT Rodney King. Hmmmmmmm!


10 posted on 04/28/2012 2:41:38 PM PDT by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: easternsky

In many states, bicycles are allowed to treat a stop signs as a yield sign. Oklahoma is currently working on that law. By law in Oklahoma, cyclists may ride 2 abreat (not more than 2) and allowed to take the entire lane. It is safer for the cyclists to take the entire lane - it forces a car to change lanes around them to pass rather than passing the bikes in one lane and potentially pinching them into the curb or a parked car. I ride a bicycle and a motorcycle on the streets, the amount of abuse and stupidity from people in cars is amazing. People need to learn some manners (cyclists included).....red


11 posted on 04/28/2012 2:46:48 PM PDT by rednek ("Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.")
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To: RegulatorCountry
"Video captures both cyclists running a stop sign, too."

That was the very first thing that I noticed. When I ride, I drive to a dedicated bike path because in a battle with a vehicle that weighs 20 times what I weigh, I know I'll lose. I have zero confidence that the driver of an SUV on a cell phone will notice me, right of way or not. The on-bike video is a nice touch, but wouldn't help me if I'm splattered over the highway like a deer. Maybe my heirs, though.

12 posted on 04/28/2012 2:56:26 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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I generally don’t take issue with bicyclists on public roadways, but there are a number who give all of them a bad name. Expecting to be given right of way and blowing off traffic laws doesn’t engender respect, and neither does riding en masse during rush hour, intentionally snarling traffic. At times it seems as if there are just as many or more @holes on bicycles as there are in cars being @holes to bicyclists.

Maybe I’m scarred for life, having been set upon once in northern California by a screeching, whistleblowing pack of fascists on bicycles, but that’s the way it appears to me. Live and let live is great, so long as both sides practice and believe it.


13 posted on 04/28/2012 3:07:48 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: rednek
It is safer for the cyclists to take the entire lane - it forces a car to change lanes around them to pass rather than passing the bikes in one lane and potentially pinching them into the curb or a parked car.

Oh, goody. Now we'll have to chug along at 20mph behind bikes on one-lane roads with double yellow lines for 3 miles, just because they decide they want to take up a whole lane. And there's a reason most people dislike cyclists...

14 posted on 04/28/2012 3:07:51 PM PDT by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Hwaet! Lar bith maest hord, sothlice!)
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To: easternsky

"Cali cyclists. I hate California cyclists."
15 posted on 04/28/2012 3:08:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Huntress

Did they blow through, or roll through?

There’s a difference. When I was riding my bicycle, I’d roll through stop signs, but I made sure of mine and other’s safety before doing so.

It just takes a lot of effort to get a stopped bicycle going again from an absolute stop.


16 posted on 04/28/2012 3:11:16 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: rednek

When I rode a bicycle, it didn’t matter how close to the curb I rode, too many drivers still thought I took up too much room and let me know it by passing me just a couple of inches to my left.


17 posted on 04/28/2012 3:14:32 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: Charles H. (The_r0nin)

Maybe if drivers, such as yourself, gave some way to bicyclists, bicyclists wouldn’t feel the need to take up the whole lane to ensure their safety.


18 posted on 04/28/2012 3:17:55 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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They didn’t slow at all. I was expecting that to be the point when the vehicle hit them, to be honest. It wasn’t.


19 posted on 04/28/2012 3:18:17 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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That is a stupid move, on their part, then. I never blew through stop signs at full speed. If I rolled, it was after I was sure it was positively safe to do it.


20 posted on 04/28/2012 3:23:32 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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