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Bicycle training crash kills attorney
John Tuohy

September 15, 2009 by John Tuohy | Star staff


Funeral services were scheduled Thursday for a 48-year-old lawyer and father who died after he crashed his bicycle in training ride last week.

Charles Avery Kirk, a graduate of North Central High School and Indiana University, will be remembered in a ceremony at North United Methodist Church, 3808 N. Meridian St.

Kirk was on a fast moving, 20-mile training ride with about 40 other cyclists last Wednesday when several riders crashed, said Tom Schumacher, a member of the Central Indiana Bicycling Association, who was on the ride.

The accident happened on the 6700 block Hoover Road near the Jewish Community Center when the group of experienced riders was rounding a turn at about 30 mph.

A rider or two at the front of the pack lost control and caused about 12 other riders to go down.

Kirk was the most seriously injured but was conscious and speaking when he was taken to the hospital, Schumacher said.

He injured his back and underwent surgery but died last Saturday, friends said.

CIBA bikers take several rides a week and Kirk was on the group’s Broad Ripple Training Ride, which winds along several Northside streets in about an hour.

Kirk was an avid cyclist, a sailor, violinist, dog lover and architecture aficionado. He worked since 1993 as legal counsel for Indianapolis-based Dow Agrosciences Commercial Regulatory Group. He had previously practiced law at Locke Reynolds Boyd and Weisel and gradated from IU School of Law-Indianapolis in 1990

He is survived by his wife, Carrie Besore, and two sons, William and George.