Another cyclist gone...

**Crankin** · 03-31-2011, 06:40 AM

I just got an email that a rider from the group I ride with was hit by a car and killed yesterday. He had ridden to the start of the ride and left the lunch stop to ride home by himself. This has really shaken me. Both he and his wife are kind of role models for DH and I. He was a 74 year old still practicing physician and a very experienced rider. Not someone I stayed away from on the group rides (as opposed to some). The newspaper clip that was attached to the email said that he was hit by a car going in the same direction and there was no implication of speed, alcohol, or drugs. It's a quiet-ish but not dead country road that is very popular for riders (according to my DH, as I haven't ridden there). The police are trying to reconstruct what happened...

**redrhodie** · 03-31-2011, 06:44 AM

Oh, that's so sad. (((Crankin)))

**SheFly** · 03-31-2011, 06:44 AM

Crankin' - so sorry to hear this! Do you know where it happened? I haven't seen anything in the news. Is there anything I can do?

SheFly

**warneral** · 03-31-2011, 07:07 AM

what a tragedy

**zoom-zoom** · 03-31-2011, 07:51 AM

Oh...so sorry.

**spokewench** · 03-31-2011, 08:16 AM

So sad, it is really hard to deal with this kind of grief.

**OakLeaf** · 03-31-2011, 08:21 AM

Oh, man. I'm so sorry.

It's on my mind a lot lately anyway because the trial is going on now, of the guy who killed a local ride leader at 6 am after partying all night. Typically, the paper is playing up the defense's evidence and arguments.

**Crankin** · 03-31-2011, 10:57 AM

Thanks, everyone. I kind of felt guilty that I felt so badly this morning; even dealing with my dad's recent (but not really life threatening) illness from 3,000 miles away didn't upset me as much. I swear it was probably on Saturday that we were discussing that we wanted to be just like this man and his wife "when we grow up."
SheFly, it happened on Rt. 115 in Millis. The lunch stop was in Dover center and he was riding home to Wellesley. I have no further information yet.
Here is the news clip that I was sent.

http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/ar...#ixzz1I8uwIA2J

**sgf726** · 03-31-2011, 11:06 AM

Sad and Scary - I know one of the people who was riding with him before they seperated.

**lawnchick22** · 03-31-2011, 11:45 AM

Tragic!

**PamNY** · 03-31-2011, 01:14 PM

Crankin, I'm so sorry. This is just tragic.

**redrhodie** · 03-31-2011, 02:29 PM

Wow, the driver has actually been charged with motor vehicle homicide by negligent operation. Good for MA. I'm really sick of our lives being taken without any charges filed.

**Crankin** · 03-31-2011, 02:33 PM

I am just guessing, but I am betting the driver just ran right into him in a lapse of attention. I have ridden behind this man countless times and I can't imagine him doing anything dangerous.

**ladyicon** · 03-31-2011, 02:35 PM

I am so sorry for you and the families loss.

**oz rider** · 03-31-2011, 03:36 PM

Condolences to all affected Crankin.

Originally Posted by redrhodie

Wow, the driver has actually been charged with motor vehicle homicide by negligent operation. Good for MA. I'm really sick of our lives being taken without any charges filed.

+1. We had one recently where a car hit two cyclists, killing one, and the driver escaped jail cos it was a 'lapse in judgement'. Fed up with this attitude from drivers and courts.

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