OH NO!!! good thoughts please...

[bouncybouncy]

I just heard on the radio traffic report of an accident involving a cyclist on the road I JUST traveled on to get to work!!! It is my cycling route when I commute by 2-wheels as well...

I do not know anything at this point but just send a virtual get well to whomever it may be...

Thanks

[LBTC]

Many butterflies on their way to the all involved, and to you for your ride home.

Hugs,
~T~

[bean fidhleir]

Ochon ochon! The best of good wishes on the way to that poor soul, and to you. Let us know if you hear more?

[tulip]

Good thoughts are being sent! My brother lives in Asheville and rides alot. He knows all the riders in Asheville, it seems. I hope that it's not serious.

[Pax]

Positive thoughts sent to all involved. I hope the rider walked away without a scratch.

[bouncybouncy]

It occurred to me as I was looking for more info that I noticed a roadie (as opposed to a commuter) riding along with headphones and NO helmet ...I keep thinking about it and searching for more info but nothing!

[mimitabby]

sometimes no news is GOOD news

[JennyPi]

Same thing happened in my area a couple of weeks ago.

I was driving my car on my usual commuting route, where I feel like the cars drive too close and TOO FAST for comfort, and there was a mangled bicycle laying on it's side. There was an ambulance, 4 cop cars, and a hurt cyclist laying on a gurney as the EMT's assisted him/her. There wasn't a car or tow truck at the scene so who knows what could have happened. Hit and run? Gosh, I hope not.

It's so scary to see those kinds of accidents where you ride everyday. I have since stopped riding that exact route. Instead, I ride the ample and hardly used sidewalk until I can get to the safer area. I know, I know (sidewalk) ... but I just don't want to risk it. Speed limit is 45, but most cars easily go 60+. Eeek!

[Pax]

Same thing happened in my area a couple of weeks ago.

I was driving my car on my usual commuting route, where I feel like the cars drive too close and TOO FAST for comfort, and there was a mangled bicycle laying on it's side. There was an ambulance, 4 cop cars, and a hurt cyclist laying on a gurney as the EMT's assisted him/her. There wasn't a car or tow truck at the scene so who knows what could have happened. Hit and run? Gosh, I hope not.

It's so scary to see those kinds of accidents where you ride everyday. I have since stopped riding that exact route. Instead, I ride the ample and hardly used sidewalk until I can get to the safer area. I know, I know (sidewalk) ... but I just don't want to risk it. Speed limit is 45, but most cars easily go 60+. Eeek!

I do the same thing, if the road is hazardous and the sidewalk unused I'll pop up on it until I reach a safer part of the road. I know we cyclists need to educate the public about the fact we belong on the road...I just don't want to get maimed in the process.

[Geonz]

There is a stretch of my route where the sidewalk is, honestly, safer (and the road isn't even that much less safer - if I'm in a group, we use the road). My sidewalk is almost ample ... and there's almost never a single soul on it... *and* there are no intersections with anything between where I get on and where I take a right turn off to campus.

Hoping the cyclist is okay... but if it made the news then it had to have involved people the news pay attention to like cops and ambulances.

[Melalvai]

There is a stretch of my route where the sidewalk is, honestly, safer (and the road isn't even that much less safer - if I'm in a group, we use the road). My sidewalk is almost ample ... and there's almost never a single soul on it... *and* there are no intersections with anything between where I get on and where I take a right turn off to campus.

I have a similar stretch on my route. I argued for a while that it was ok to take the sidewalk there, but eventually I was persuaded to stick to the road. Not for safety's sake, but because riding on the sidewalk sets a bad precedent and a bad example.

Bike lanes for that road are in the works, but I don't count on any promises.

[bouncybouncy]

Well...nothing! Nothing on the numerous listserves I am on...nor the paper. So, I am with Mimi...no news is good news!