From: BG
Jonny, Bart from the ragby, biker down in Cedar Rapids, IA
easterniowanewsnow.com/…bicyclist-has-serious-head-injuries-after-accident.

Ms. DeSotel died as a result of her injuries.
Susan M. DeSotel, 51, of 1818 Washington Ave SE, died Monday, August 2, 2010, at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics from injuries suffered in a bicycle accident July 29. Funeral Mass will be held [...]

This bummer out of cheeseland provided by Hank:
This just in up in Cheeseland. . . is there an explanation beyond WTF?
(http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/lifestyle/101609818.html)
Fine paid in Netke case; result disappoints cyclist’s widow
By Tom Held of the Journal Sentinel
Aug. 27, 2010
The motorist who struck and killed a local bike racer on Father’s Day has paid a $114 fine, in [...]

Jason Lummis was run down by a hit-and-run driver while riding his bike down Dexter-Pinckney Road on Wednesday night.
As a member of the Bell’s Brewery Quiring Cycling Team, Jason was riding home from work at Great Lakes Cycling and Fitness, when police say, he was hit from behind at the intersection of Fleming Road and [...]

Yesterday, a woman riding in the Pelotonia Tour (for cancer research) was struck and killed when a truck decided not to stop at the intersection where a state trooper was directing traffic. This happened pretty close to me, in Hocking Hills.
Michelle Kazlausky, 57, of Reynoldsburg was killed in the crash, said Patrol Sgt. Max [...]

MESA, Ariz. — A 13-year-old Mesa girl was hospital after she was hit Monday morning while riding her bicycle.
Mesa police said it happened in the area of Gilbert Road and Southern Avenue.
Mesa Fire Department spokesman Forrest Smith said the girl was in a crosswalk when she was hit at a relatively high rate of speed.
Witnesses [...]

We can all make the joke about having them. Some of us more than others. (I’m looking in your direction, BJ.) What makes this site special isn’t just the beer, bikes, boobs mentality; it’s that we all stick together when shit goes sideways. Info about Jonny went up all over and people responded with well-wishes [...]

Behind the embittering reality of cyclists dying, the fact is that many of us will end with a similar fate. Maybe you don’t think it will be you, but It happened to Matt Kelly, it happened to Jon Kircher, it happened to so many and the rate is not changing. A 29 year old mother [...]

Speaking with a queen, she asked me how Drunk Cyclist was, to which I said, it goes. I don’t write there anymore. I’m tired of the ilk. Ilk though? “They all just shit on each other”, she said. Indeed, so it goes.
from: DJ
A day trip to the Vineyard ended in tragedy Tuesday for a vacationing [...]

Bicyclist, 70, fatally struck by pickup
A 70-year-old Vineland cyclist died Thursday morning after being struck by a pickup truck in Franklin Township, according to the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office.
Robert R. Schwinn riding along the northbound side of Route 555 (Main Road) near Weymouth Road when a 1992 Ford 150 pickup struck him from behind at [...]

Sunday, May 30, 2010
ROSEVILLE, Mich. — A bicyclist died early Sunday morning when a motorcyclist struck him while crossing a ramp in a designated crosswalk in Roseville.
The accident happened at the westbound Interstate 94 ramp and northbound Gratiot Avenue. Witnesses told police the motorcyclist was traveling fast and struck the biker.
Police told Local 4 alcohol [...]

So much shit gets shoveled into my portal, it purges out my mouth and bleeds from my finger tips:

From: architecman
Subject: flip flops
dude was untangling flip flops when he hit the cyclist.

Yes, my friends, the cyclist died as a result. I feel good. You?

From: DJ
Subject: black hawks suck
Colorado town of Black Hawk bans bicycle riding.

This, from [...]

Thanks to Dave Woof for dredging up the AZ daily sun clip regarding the ongoing results of Joshua Pete’s death under the wheel’s of a Flagstaff City garbage truck that occured Novemeber of last year (2009). Here’s the news reported today in the local paper:
The family of a Flagstaff man who died after he [...]

Caught this one in the mail from Saltyfugu. Then I picked my chin up off the floor. This comes on the heals of a the local fiasco between BGR and Flagstaff’s public transit which could have ended in much the same way or worse. Take a gander to reinforce your concerns about the courtesy some [...]

…the charges will be dropped.

The Crown has withdrawn charges against former Ontario attorney-general Michael Bryant in the death of a cyclist.
Mr. Bryant was charged last September with criminal negligence causing death and dangerous driving in the death of bike courier Darcy Allan Sheppard.
theglobeandmail.com.

Lonely in here, ain’t it? That’s because it’s just us. (get [...]

Man arrested after cyclist found dead in ditch in hit and run
Mere hours after a dead cyclist was found in a ditch on a rural Ontario road, police arrested a man they believe struck the cyclist and sped off without contacting authorities.
An investigation into the death of 37-year-old Adam Hofstetter of Tillsonburg, Ont., who was [...]

More bad news right upon the heels of the last bit of bad news. And, there is more queued up behind that. It never ends.

Another cyclist has lost his life on one of Quebec’s highways.
A 57-year-old man died after being hit by a car Saturday evening near Val-Morin, Que., some 90 kilometres northwest [...]

Six cyclists were entangled in a scene of carnage on a Quebec highway Friday as scraps of twisted metal were scattered along a wide stretch of pavement Friday.
Three were declared dead. All were injured.
. . .
Among those administering first aid, police said, was the motorist involved in the accident. They said they would be [...]

Time to flip the switch for another two-day reprieve. Since it’s snowing in Flagstaff and I have 120mm of squish, time to visit PHOENIS and burn up some SoMo coast to coast or such. The Sabbath I step into church with my 90 year old G-ma. We’ll both repent for our f-bombs together, one more [...]

I’m not sure I know the answer to that question. I didn’t know when the man who hit me was sentenced to five years in prison. I certainly don’t know anything more about it now that I’m in my second year of law school.
And, I don’t know anything about the answer to [...]

Man, I sure hating seeing this stuff and I’m sorry to say that Jorge Alvarado, a Bahati Foundation rider, was struck and killed while on a training ride yesterday in Southern California.
A San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman said Roraff, a high school senior, was traveling north on Greenspot Road at more than [...]