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By Bill (registered) | Posted June 10, 2010 at 14:03:21
I am with the emergency services and I talked to the people who where was at the accident as part of the emergency crews. I have not talk to the police since then, as I normally do not look into accident especially fatal one once I am finished with them. I would just go crazy!
Remember we only have a few seconds to find out what happened from witnesses with conflicting stories once we arrive and start working on the patient.
At the time it looked the transport truck was blocking the curb lane coming to a stop to go into Tims and moving slowly. It had its 4-way flashers on and to most people it means you’re stopped. Some say the bike was on the sidewalk on the south side of Stonechurch and some say he moved to the sidewalk to go around the truck. There are reports he was moving quickly as you would expect going down Upper James. He hit the passenger door and shattered the windows. Real windows are hard to break not like on TV.
The SUV was not moving fast as the truck looked like it was parked. His view was partially blocked but not as much to see a pedestrian that was walking at a pace much slower than a fast bike. Everyone may get blamed here.
Wearing a helmet had nothing to do with his death. It was a freak accident. He died of an extreme loss of blood. He severed a large artery.
Maybe a bike lane on James might have helped. I doubt it. In my option, the transport truck is to blame as it blocked the view of both the SVU driver and the bicyclist. This is not the first time I have seen large trucks stopped at this Tims. Maybe the city needs to put up large signs forbidding large trucks from stopping or standing along there.
Bike lanes would be nice, but to most people who do not ride a bike it is hard to convince them to spend millions on a perfectly good road to add bike lanes. Most people who use Upper James would vote for millions for extra lanes before adding a cent for bike lanes.
And yes I am an avid bicyclist and I and scared to death a couple of times a week. Not just here. I have ridden in Europe and I have been scared there to.
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