My husband told me something unsettling this afternoon, still digesting how to deal with it. He said he was told a motorist was raped last week after her vehicle broke down at the very intersection I get stopped by a light daily when I commute. He said it was supposedly evening but not super late, exactly how it will be come daylight savings time on my ride home. I don't want to be paralyzed by fear but this is a very isolated stretch of road, it is a big road but not much traffic and lots of ranches way off the road. If this story was true this was a vunerable motorist, how much more secure can a smaller female on a bike be?

Anyone know if I could call the local sheriff's department (this isn't in city limits of any town) to just see if that really happened? No details, just was there a rape there in the last month? I cannot find it in the paper but not every rape or violent crime ends up in the paper. Although I do wonder how his friend knew of it.