A Warwick man was killed yesterday afternoon while riding his bicycle along Route 1 south between Kings Factory Road and Posser Trail, the police said.
The accident happened around 4 p.m. when a gray Buick Rendezvous sport-utility vehicle traveling south on Route 1 veered off the road into the shoulder, fatally striking Frank J. Cabral, [...]

I’ve gotten a few emails on this on so far:
From: Josh
Subject: suv runs over priest
I doubt you guys want to become a place where cyclists are eulogized, but I thought I’d pass this story along. It seems to be getting out of hand in
Chicago (four cyclists killed in the last month), just like everywhere [...]

Another one that warms the heart.
From: david
Subject: cars rule
Just ask the Beverly Hills PD: digg.com
soundoftheground.blogspot.com

He ain’t lyin’. Check the story:
I was riding to work as a graduate research assistant for my PhD studies at UCLA at around 10:40am Tuesday morning (August 21, 2007). I was westbound on Wilshire preparing to make a [...]

File this one under “holy shit”.
From: Cody
Subject: Cyclist Down
Jonny,
Mike & the boys at his shop read DC regularly. Mike’s going to be ok, but seriously, how fucked up is this:
venturacountystar.com
Ventura police are asking for the public’s help to find two motorists they say intentionally hit a bicyclist Monday night.
[...]

‘An extraordinary girl’
Motorist drank all day at Gatineau strip club; convicted twice before with impaired driving
Jean-Francois Bertrand, Andrew Seymour, Katie Daubs and Alana Toulin, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Thursday, August 30, 2007
Marie-Hélène Primeau, 17 years old and days away from starting her studies at an Ottawa art college, was on her bike on the Lady Aberdeen [...]

A 15-year-old boy is dead after being struck by lightning while riding his bicycle.
Kevin Avelar was found lying unconscious in a parking lot with his bicycle next to him, Officer George Gordon said.
Avelar was a freshman at Roswell High School.
Source: wsbtv.com

This kid was 10 years old.
The investigation still continues, but police say Vaclav stopped his bicycle on the sidewalk of Bailey Hill Road Monday afternoon, waiting to cross the street. Traffic stopped to allow him to cross and he entered the roadway. That’s when they say a 16-year-old driver sped around a stopped car on [...]

More fathers of two month olds being hit by drunk drivers.
Concord NH Monitor…
Sometimes i wonder who’s winning the war; the cars sure win every battle. Other times i just want to crawl in a hole. This is one of those crawl in a hole times.
peace.

I hate to even link a shitbag site like this (why send him any traffic?) but sometimes you just gotta do it. Tony’s Kansas City is today’s choice for the “fuck you buddy” post. He describes himself as a “Local artist/crackpot”. Nice. I can hardly wait to see what he [...]

This one it totally fucked:
Car strikes two cyclists in road rage
05:16 PM PDT on Friday, August 17, 2007
By DAVID KROUGH, kgw.com Staff
Police arrested a driver Friday afternoon after a bizarre chase in which two cyclists were hit by a car in Southeast Portland.
It all started around 12:30 on 1000 block of Southeast Clinton Street. Police [...]

When I hear about stuff like this, my blood runs cold.
From: twolf1
Subject: rider down
Olympic hopeful cyclist injured in crash
Rt 100 in Macungie township has become inundated with tractor trailer traffic due to the non-stop construction of gigantic warehouses. There are so many trucks that there are actually ruts in the pavement.
A picture I [...]

It has been one year.
It was a few minutes after noon on a Saturday, August 5th of 2006. I was riding in the bike lane in bright sunlight on a dead straight section of roadway. I remember nothing after that moment save flashes of sky as I was being rolled off the ambulance [...]

From: Boat
Subject: JRA
GOOD BYE OL’ FRIEND!
RIP GEORGE OF DA JUNGLE
philly.com
George Gonzalez was the son of my wifes co-worker.

Oh shit…
My condolences to his friends and family.

This one just in:
On June 16th my friend, co-worker, and teammate Ben Pritchard died of heart failure while doing a lap at the Hardcore 24 Mountain bike race in Naples, NY. He will be missed incredibly. Check out parkavebike.com for a great photo of Ben 5 min. before he died, riding into the [...]

All hands ON deck!
We’re looking for the fucker who did this.
http://kutv.com/local/local_story_168235856.html
Any info, call the SLC / South SLC police.

The usual routine: Car + bike = death and destruction for cyclist. Online article + comments section = idiot chimes in and says “quit bitching and get off the damn roads, they are designed for vehicles, not bicycles.”
My tax dollars pay for the roads. Bicycles are 100% legal to operate on the [...]

What can you say about shit like this?

A former model may have killed a cyclist because she was wearing stiletto heels while test driving a sports car…
Former model? I took a look at that picture and thought about throwing myself in front of a train. How “former” we talking about here, chief? [...]

Tucson victim of hit and run taken off life support

For seven long, quiet years, bicyclist Ross Yokoyama – the victim of a hit-and-run driver – clung to the edge of life, confined to a bed in a Tucson nursing home, until his family finally let him go Friday morning…
Along with several other victims of fatal [...]