A bicycle messenger who had recently started his own delivery business was killed Wednesday when he was hit by a pickup next to Alamo Square, San Francisco police said.
Kirk Janes, 35, was killed at 10:55 a.m. at Fulton and Steiner streets at the northeast corner of the square. Janes had recently co-founded the business American [...]

I’ve been a bit behind in the email department as of late (it is starting to seem normal) and I was very sad to hear about this.
From: JJ
Subject: biker down
Sad news, in case you haven’t heard….
wxyz.com
Bill Crowley, brother of Bob Crowley, was struck by a motorist while participating in the annual Tour of [...]

From: Bob
Subject: I got hit by a car
DrunkCyclists…
My name is Bob Cesca. I’m a blogger for the Huffington Post. I’m also a cyclist and a daily reader of DrunkCyclist.com. I know you’ve been documenting car vs. cyclist accidents, so I thought I’d tell you about mine. On Friday I was riding through Wernersville [...]

From: Jason
Subject: cyclist killed
Just wanted to inform people that another cyclist has been killed by a negligent driver. On Saturday, April 19, Shahram, a friend and customer of mine, was killed about two miles from our shop in Golden, CO. He was killed when a postal truck driver crossed the line [...]

GREENSBORO — A UNCG professor and well-known biking advocate is recuperating from serious injuries after his bicycle was struck from behind by an inattentive motorist.
Mark Schulz, an epidemiologist in the School of Health and Human Performance, suffered injuries including a shattered kneecap, crushed vertebrae, broken ribs, a broken sternum and a concussion.
He faces lengthy rehabilitation [...]

A San Francisco man surrendered to police today in connection with a hit-and-run crash at Octavia Boulevard and Market Street that badlly injured a bicyclist and killed her dog, police said.
Tom Moulas, 40, turned himself in at the Hall of Justice about 2 a.m. and was booked on suspicion of felony hit-and-run, San Francisco police [...]

Charges have been dismissed against a Fallon man accused of fatally striking a 12-year-old bicyclist with his vehicle while making a cell phone call in August 2006.
Under a civil compromise accepted Friday by Justice of the Peace Terry Graham, Richard Hutchings will pay $1.3 million to the family of victim of Jeremiah Horne in return [...]

This one ain’t exactly recent, but damn if it ain’t something you should read:
From: James
Subject: a kid that got it
this kid understood, he wrote this at the age of 14, the sad part to his story is the day after the NAHBS in p-town two cyclists were taken down. Austin was [...]

2 Cyclists Killed In S.Bay Crash With Deputy’s Car
Two bicyclists were killed and another suffered critical injuries after a Santa Clara Sheriff’s vehicle plowed into the riders while on patrol in Cupertino on Sunday. One of the victims was an Olympic hopeful from Oakland.
…Friends of the cyclists identified the two riders who were [...]

Bob Walmsley was hit on April 9, 2007 in Phoenix, Arizona. He died the next day.
This email came to me this morning:
From: Peg
Subject: JUSTICE FOR “BOB THE BIKER”
Please send this to whoever you think might be interested. Thanks.
Hi Everyone,
After a year of pretrial conferences, Bob will finally get his day in [...]

A couple in from Andy in Chicago:
From: Andy
Subject: Re: Cyclist down
There seems to be a massive troll movement around this whole deal. A bunch of people are calling Matt a dumbass and pissing blame. A wide group of people got exposed in a small amount of time to a concept that [...]

I don’t even know what to say about something like this.
After parents get in touch, police arrest young woman in Fircrest hit-and-run
Fircrest police have arrested an 18-year-old woman suspected in a hit-and-run crash that seriously injured a bicyclist earlier this month, Pierce County sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said Thursday.
The woman’s parents contacted investigators through an [...]

Tomorrow brings Omloop Het Volk. Sunday is Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne. I’m about to go full blown drunk classics crazy up in this piece. And that means fries, mayonnaise and beer. But not necessarily in that order.
Is Leadville about to go bye-bye?
More than 1 billion gallons of water – enough to fill [...]

From: Andy
Subject: Re: Cyclist down
Big Jonny:
Deaths such as this are never easy. We plan to have a memorial ride Sunday morning. For now, da Tour is cancelled, perhaps permanently. Da Tour has had a lot of support over the years, from shops like Yo Jimbo’s Garage and Upgrade. And [...]

From: Andy
Subject: Cyclist down
What’s up Big Jonny?
Chicago’s kids have been running the Tour Da Chicago for 9 years, and this past Sunday, when yours truly was too lazy to haul his fat ass out of bed and onto the bike, da Tour experienced its first fatality.
chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-biker_fatal_26feb26,0,533633.story
We’ve had some bad hits in the past, [...]

Fircrest police were looking Monday for driver who hit a bicyclist and then apparently stopped to drag the unconscious woman to the side of the road before leaving the scene.
Sandy Johnston, 66, of University Place, was hit about 5:30 a.m. Sunday as she was pedaling through the intersection of Ramsdell Street and Contra Costa Avenue, [...]

A Wittmann man has been sent to prison for a hit-and-run traffic crash that sent an 18-year-old bicyclist to the hospital with critical injuries.
Jeffrey Scott Darden, 33, who received a 21-month term behind bars, was taken into custody after sheriff’s deputies found a damaged pickup truck that figured in the crash Dec. 26, 2006.
He was [...]

From: Big Shorty
Subject: St. Louis isn’t too bike friendly lately
St. Louis has one of it’s major interstates closed pushing a ton of cars
onto surface streets and they aren’t playing too nice.
www.stltoday.com

More from St. Louis -
From: Mark
Subject: Another cyclist hit
Big Jonny,
My friend’s boss, who rides centuries for fun and does all those [...]

File this under “you gotta be fucking kidding me”:
A speeding motorist who killed a teenage cyclist is suing the boy’s parents over damage to his luxury car, the government says.
Enaitz Iriondo, 17, died instantly in August 2004 when businessman Tomas Delgado’s Audi A8 crashed into him at 100 mph near Haro in northern Spain, an [...]

From: ScoreKeeper Scott
Subject: I am laughing at the bitch
Woman with prior DUI strikes and kills cyclists. Scumbag defense lawyer claims she is remorseful, she cries. Then this shite comes out at sentencing, maybe it should have come out at trial.
www.azstarnet.com/metro/221764
keep on flowing my friend
scorekeeper out
Erik has a post up on this [...]