Driver kills two more

[Pax]

Those poor families.

I swear, with things like this becoming all too common I'm almost ready to hang the bike on the garage wall, sell off the motorcycle and just stay off the road.

[silver]

I'm still putting together info on this. Below is some info that I found on the first man that the driver killed. This is just tragic.....the first man, Larry McDuff....his wife was killed riding her bike two years previously, so he was all about safety.

I did find a blurb in a blog...so it's unsubstantiated, that the McDuff family asked for leniency for the driver who was 17 at the time. But I've not found what his punishment was.

This makes me angry.....but I will not stop riding.


http://thetrailblazers.org/content/view/17/

MCDUFF MEMORIAL

At 8:30am on Monday, June 13 Larry McDuff was riding his bike to work at Bee Natural Organic Farm in Fairhope. He helped out with the crops and goats at the farm two days a week in exchange for fruits, veggies, and cheeses to support his vegetarian lifestyle. He was riding south in the bike lane on Greeno Road when a hit and run driver struck and killed him.

Ironically his beloved wife Ann was killed in the same way two years previously on Baldwin County Hwy 27, now US 181. Since that tragedy Larry had always worn a fluorescent lime green jacket, a helmet, and a flashing red light on his bike for maximum visibility.

The McDuffs were environmental role models for all who knew them. They rode bikes instead of cars, dried their clothes out in the sun, and travelled the world on foot. Summers they trekked elaborately planned trips such as the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada, the Appalachian Trail twice over, the John Muir Trail in California, and an even more daunting one in Peru. When their four children were old enough they took them to Europe which they explored by bike.

[7rider]

Oh, my. These two guys were neighbors of my friend's step-daughter in the Fairhope area. My friend stayed at our house Monday night and got word from his wife about the accident and told us about it.