Drunkcyclist.com

Just got this one via email.

From: Brad
Subject: Hit and Run / Biker Down From DC…
Rolled up on this scene moments after it happened yesterday - a horrible thing on an otherwise spectacular SW Colorado day.
montrosepress.com

From the article:
The state patrol is seeking the driver of an SUV it says struck and killed a bicyclist Thursday [...]

From: Hank
Subject: Biker Down
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (accident yesterday and today)
Woman arrested in bicycle death
Authorities have arrested the 43-year-old woman suspected of crashing into and killing one bicyclist and injuring another Wednesday night on Five Mile Road in the Town of Raymond.
Janell D. Gehrke of the Town of Norway allegedly was driving drunk, [...]

Let the good times roll.

From: Flo
Subject: Reason to own a .40 cal.
it’s shit like this that makes me want to tote my .40cal with me on road rides. Too bad the damn thing weighs too much. Gotta find a lighter handgun to compliment all the carbon.
laist.com/2008/07/07/road_rage_motorist_vs_cyclists_on_m.php#comments
I summize that soon we will be reading about cyclists [...]

It just keeps coming.
It was a daring dream by an exceptional man. Daniel Hurtubise had spent two years organizing a bicycling trip across Canada with his two teen children that would raise money and increase awareness of Type 1 diabetes, the condition he lived with from age 15.
They left Vancouver in mid-June, joined by Robert [...]

Oh Christ…
SUV jumps sidewalk and strikes the girl, almost 2, and her family on a bike ride. Her mother, father and younger brother sustain broken bones and internal injuries. Suspect faces murder charge.
Unreal. They guy was running from the scene of a different accident he got into earlier.
A toddler was killed and her mother, [...]

From: Erik
Subject: biker down in NC
The driver swerved to miss a deer (his story), crossed the center line and hit a cyclist head on. This was like 3 miles from my house. I’m leaving the bike on the trainer.
abclocal.go.com

Oregon is contemplating a law to make killing a cyclist a felony when driving a motorized vehicle.
The local fear mongering ABC network has a poll where you can tell them how you feel about it: www.koin.com
Scroll down the right side of the screen and you will get a “Yes” “no” type of poll. [...]

These posts are never easy. But this one is real, real bad. I’ve gotten a few emails about it today. I copied the text and photo below from a flickr post.
Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico (Monday June-2-2008) Seven competitors from yesterday cyclist race were severely injured after being hit by a drunk driver, one [...]

I am remiss in not posting this earlier….
Early on Saturday morning May 10, Eric Davidson was riding home from a BBQ when a car speeding from a Safeway parking lot in Portland, OR struck him and fled the scene.
Read Here
Eric has been in the hospital since, is in a coma, and is in critical but [...]

This one is off the chart. The story is datelined May 8th, so it is a few weeks old now already. But I hadn’t posted anything on the site about it. ‘Bout time I did.

About 50 cyclists - including Australian racer Kate Nichols, who was injured in a 2005 German road [...]