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...