I just heard about this this morning as I was walking my dog on the trail, from another person also out walking their dog. This trail is a very big part of my life as I have a 1/4 mile dirt trail that leads directly from my house down to the trail. I'm usually either walking my dog on it, going to the dog park, riding my bike on it for an easy ride, or using it to get to a more strenuous ride. This is a very sad situation.
It's hard to say who made the error. I've only had maybe a handful of times in the last 3 years that I've been riding my bike on it, where someone passed me too dangerously close that I felt they should have said "on your left" but didn't. For the most part, the trail is big enough that you can be on one side, pedestrians on the other and there's really no need to say your passing because you're so far away from them. I think everyone on the trail has a responsibility to look before they move to the other side of the trail though, and that's something I practice when I'm acting as a pedestrian on it.
That being said...I've also had people wander out in front of me on my bike while I'm following all the rules of the trail (including slowing down, passing on the proper side, telling them I'm coming up). So, they could have said "on your left" and she could have either not heard them, or panicked like some people do and walked right into them.
Either way it's a devastating situation and I'm sure the cyclist feels awful that it ended up like this, just as the family feels sorrow for losing their loved one.
-Jessica
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04-20-2010, 10:01 AM #6
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