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[Crankin]

It's all over the local news this morning, that one of the victim's husband is telling the reporters that the police are treating this as "a criminal investigation."
Gee, how surprising.

[OakLeaf]

The sad thing is that it really is surprising, or at least unusual.

[sgf726]

Not sure if she was texting or not, allow that is what is currently being rumored. To add on to it, the driver was stopped hours earlier in the same area for speeding and driving without a license:

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/09/2...ad-no-license/

[eofelis]

I've been following this story as I'm from the Massachusetts North Shore area. I didn't know any of the riders, but they all lived close to Ipswich (where I am from).
What's with the police totally dropping the ball and not arresting this driver? Is she related to someone important?

We have had a sad week for bicyclists here. A cyclist who was touring through the area was hit and killed by a DUI driver who was on her way to a hearing for a previous DUI arrest. This was on a highway with a 10ft wide shoulder, rumble strips and over a mile of sight distance.
http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/artic...or-dui-hearing

My bf and his friend felt strongly about this and put a ghost bike at the site.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Grand...69979643016667
The cycling community here never met the rider but wanted to show that we acknowledged him. The FB page with the ghost bike posting has gotten a lot of response from people who are friends and family of the rider who was from NJ.

[SheFly]

Glad you are ok, Crankin. What a terrible day all around.

Eofilis - it appears that since the woman never had a license, she could not be arrested. If she had a suspended or revoked license and were caught driving/speeding, that would have led to an immediate arrest. I'm reading too many stories recently about cyclists being on the wrong side of a run in with a car, and no charges being laid. We have sarcastically joked at our house that if you wanted to have someone killed, you should just put them on a bike and run them down with a car - you'd get away with it.

I think there will end up being criminal charges in this instance (at least I hope so). How someone, licensed or not, drives OVER the yellow line INTO oncoming traffic mowing down 4 riders and killing 2 without charges is beyond me.

My heartfelt sympathies to those who knew any of the victims. This is just too sad.

SheFly

[ridebikeme]

I'm sure at this point that there are many stories floating around about this tragic story. Today I heard from a friend that the young lady driving had been stopped earlier in the day and was found that she didn't have a license, the police officer told her that she needed to call someone to come and get the car and for them to drive her home. I will admit that it is a rather odd thing to hear, but time will tell whether it's actually the truth or not.

I was thinking about this today at work, and thought about all of the stories that I hear from people who ride motorcycles... lots of the same stories that we all talk about way too often. Here's my idea, cyclists should join forces with the motorcycle community and collectively maybe we can force legislators and police officers to make arrests and persue charges when cases like this arise. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

[Crankin]

OK, she was arrested at around 5:30 PM.
She was drunk. And only 19 years old. Charged with 2 counts of manslaughter and 2 counts of aggravated assault.
The reason she was not arrested at the first stop is because in NH driving without a license is a violation, but not a criminal act.