Driver Ryan Montoya 29
Driver Ryan Montoya 29
Newsweek said Montoya had History of Driving-Related Incidents.
> Montoya is facing charges for vehicular homicide, driving under the influence and not having insurance.
There it is. A lot of drinking and driving in this crowd.
"...Gwen Inglis, 2019 U.S. Cycling Road Race Champion..."
Very, very sad.
See ya at the bill signing! /W
Bicycle lane? What did the leftist expect when they put in a lane just for slow moving bicycles within a couple feet of fast moving cars and 10 ton vehicles, traveling 2-5 times fast than these slow moving vulnerable bicycles?
It’s a recipe for brutal death and disaster and noways bicycles going under the wheels is a common occurrence.
If she was training at home how did she get hit by a car?
not sure what happened here, but
Ive seen situations where a road-race bicycle would not fit parallel
the road with just plain cars and the biker-Karens were not happy
My dad was in a serious biking accident this week, a loose dog ran out at him while riding in from the country into a local village. He, and other cyclist like us, did nothing wrong. The dog was off the owners property. The illegal immigrant who owns the dog likely has no insurance and my family will be stuck paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in bills. There is no incentive for the people to do the proper thing, chaining their dog, because financially and criminally, they have no liability due to their economic and immigrant status.
Sorry, you’re all just wrong. You need to drive safely, put your cell phones down, quit drinking and smoking pot while driving, and keep your dog tied up. Driving, regardless of cyclist or not, is a dangerous act for someone who is distracted. Northern Indiana has issues with drivers hitting kids at bus stops, and Amish in buggies. I hear no one here blaming children or the Amish, and cyclist shouldn’t be blamed either for impatience speeders who have zero respect for another’s life, liberty or property.
How is it that any of you are Conservatives and yet you have no respect for the life, liberty and property of another person.... Even when they are annoying to you? This sounds like liberal talk, not Right thinking people.
The road is not your personal fun zone where you may do whatever you want, and I mean that towards cyclists too. But sometimes cyclists ride the way they do for a reason, and not for the purpose of ruining your chance to drive dangerously whenever you want. Pot holes, traffic ahead, hills, wind, and your vehicle all make a difference in how a rider is cycling. Cyclist try to avoid pot holes, animals, bad drivers, etc. We move to the center up a hill so you don’t pass us, not only so we don’t get hurt, but for your safety as well.
Let he who is without bad road usage cast the first stone.
This is a tragedy. No doubt about it. However, bikes and cars do not belong on the same road together, paths or no paths. Soft-bodied humans riding on unprotected “vehicles” are no match for 2,000 pounds of motorized metal force.
It’s physics. It’s reality.
A truly dedicated bike path would be a separate STRONGLY barriered zone. That is not what we build.
I live near Tallahassee. There are bike paths everywhere. Two roads are already very narrow because they have been declared “canopy” roads. They are the only two major routes from the northeast section of the city where there is a large number of remote subdivisions. At rush-hour the traffic is backed up for miles. These roads are designated for bikes and sport happy little signs saying to drive safely and share the road with bikes. But, the roads are already narrower than standard roads. The political purpose of the canopy designation and the interwoven jogging and biking paths that periodically cross these roads, is to prevent any development outside of Tallahassee to the northeast, where there is a huge amount of good land for development. (It hasn’t worked and it never would have worked, but there’s the “stop” mechanism still in place despite this. Politically, no elected official could either widen the roads or outlaw biking/jogging across these thoroughfares.)
A cop told me, approximately, “Yeah, we are out there several times a month for car/bike/jogger hits. A lot of them are fatal. And, no, it’s kept out of the news. Anyone who uses the paths or rides a bike on those roads is insane.”
Having ridden a bike on roads large enough to accommodate them, I have still had close calls. Then, on successive days. after a series of near misses by the same woman driving her BMW, I read a book titled, “The Sociopath Next Door.” According to the author, one in ten people are sociopaths (form no emotional connection with others) and that means out of every ten cars passing you, blipping the wheel and clipping you is an option for at least one of the drivers. Not once did this woman ever glance at me, but each time she went from straddling the centerline to forcing me to bail out in the ditch as her tires left the pavement. I never road a bike again.
F’er should be executed!!
Yikes. RIP.