File this under “holy shit!”
not a typical commute home
(This post is a draft. I will edit as I have the energy. Thank you!)
I am sitting up in my hospital bed with my MacBook Pro. Harborview has the UW WiFi network. I have access by virtue of being an alumnus. Anita brought my laptop to [...]

The Missoula man who fatally crashed his car into a 50-year-old bicyclist before fleeing the scene last April was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in the Montana State Prison, the maximum punishment allowed by law.
Anthony Michael Dailey, 23, admitted last month to a felony count of vehicular homicide while under the influence for his role [...]

From: gob
Subject: another one
www2.tbo.com
When are we as cyclists going to realize that cars always win? So many people on so many group rides ride as if traffic laws don’t apply to them.
It needs to stop before some neaderthal in a pickup mows down an entire paceline.
Yo, I hear you on that one.
22 [...]

This story is from a week ago Monday, not yesterday Monday.
From: Christian
Subject: Biker Down (again)
Jonny,
Check this out (from kktv.com).
“A bicyclist was killed by a hit and run driver in Colorado Springs Monday night.
Police say 38 year old James Stenson of Colorado Springs was hit shortly after 6:00 p.m. Monday night near the intersection [...]

A cyclist was pinned and killed today in a collision with a garbage truck in North Portland, the city’s second fatal bike-car collision this month.
The crash occurred around 12:30 pm., as the garbage truck, a white SUV and the cyclist were all headed south down North Interstate Avenue. Police said both motor vehicles had passed [...]

A Columbia man who was riding in a charity bike ride near Charlotte was killed by a van Sunday afternoon.
State troopers say 49-year-old Thomas Hoskins of Columbia and 49-year-old Lee Ann Berry of Charlotte were killed.
Source: wltx.com
Lee Ann Berry’s website: thebigride.org

A woman killed Friday on her bicycle when she was hit by a Hummer H3 while riding her bike on Overland Road has been identified as Sarah Howard of Meridian.
The Ada County Coroner said Howard, 48, died from a head injury. She was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash, Meridian police said. [...]

Cyclist killed at W. Burnside and 14th
According to Portland Police Bureau Lieutenant Mark Kruger, the cyclist collided with a cement mixing truck at the corner of W Burnside and 14th.
Let’s get something straight – cyclists do not collide with cement trucks.
You got the words mixed up on that one, kid.

From: Michael
Subject: Another tragedy
Hey man,
I’m a long time lurker on your site. Just one more sad story to pass along–this time from Albuquerque. This one hit home because I’m 28, live in ‘burque and went to his school. Fucking. A.
dukecityfix.com

These aren’t getting any easier to read & link. But they must be [...]

I got this one yesterday but didn’t get it posted till today.
From: Joe
Subject: Cyclist down
This morning on mt lemon a cyclist got hit. We were the first people on the scene and wrapped him up in a sleeping bag and gave first aid waiting for paramedics. His first name was Jay and thats [...]

Thumb blisters aside, Mark Loesch was excited about the new tire he put on his rebuilt bicycle late Wednesday.
When his wife, Samantha, went to bed after they watched the 10 p.m. news, Loesch told her he was going out for a “quick spin.” She thought nothing of it.
“He might have been coming to my house,” [...]

Some things just never change.
Denver Police say a 5-year-old boy on his bicycle died Thursday after being hit by an SUV. It happened shortly before 5 p.m. on South Alton Court, near East Cornell Avenue.
Denver Police say a 16-year-old male driving an SUV hit the boy. The boy was pronounced dead at Swedish Hospital.
Source: [...]

This one is out of Seattle:
One bicyclist was killed and another was injured Friday afternoon in a collision with a dump truck in the city’s Eastlake neighborhood.
Two men in their 20s were apparently riding north on Eastlake Avenue toward the University Bridge when a dump truck making a right turn onto Fuhrman Avenue East crashed [...]

I’ve done some scary shit in my short time. One of those times is when I had to walk into the hospital room where Big Jonny was laying there bleeding and mumbling some incoherent shit about getting hit by a car. The first thing I did was grab a ball point pen and [...]

This just in via email.
Des Moines police and detectives are investigating a car-bicycle accident that occurred around 9:20 a.m. today at 13th Street and University Avenue.
The motorist appears to have made a U-turn in a parking lot and deliberately drove down a sidewalk on the south side of University, hitting the man on the [...]

This is beginning to get really depressing. There have been a lot of emails and subsequent posts regarding accidents involving cyclists today. Looks like it’s about time to mix up a cocktail at the Drunkcyclist World Headquarters.
From: dano
Subject: this is worthy of your attention
Jonny,
This is so terribly sad and horribly [...]

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.
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