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also, when you're driving remember to slow the fuck down when you're crossing a bicycle lane. this is less of a helmet success story and more of a bicycle path failure story, imo.
wingedc0w
Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 1:25 pm
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Failure on the driver and cyclist:
He slammed on his brakes flipping him.
So he caused his head to get crushed.
bobhall
Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 1:39 pm
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lantius wrote:
also, when you're driving remember to slow the fuck down when you're crossing a bicycle lane. this is less of a helmet success story and more of a bicycle path failure story, imo.
I know, I'm just being a troll and trying to get Aaron to start screaming.
Eric_s
Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 1:49 pm
Joined: 07 Mar 2007Posts: 1691Location: the dirty south
Really, the lesson we can take from this is that bike lanes are bad: If this guy was in the street, he almost certainly would not have been hit. Cagers are negligent, blind, stupid, drunk, and angry, but they rarely set out to kill someone intentionally, and when you're in the street, they can see you and avoid you.
Also, maybe our lucky idiot cyclist needs to slow down at street crossings and learn to use his brakes: A helmet can be useful if you crash, but it's even better not to crash.
joeball
Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 1:51 pm
Joined: 24 Jul 2005Posts: 6037Location: Ether
How about this, no right on red designations for traffic turning across multi-use paths. An example of the issue of having divided paths/roadways.
I didn't see mention of what way he was traveling. Granted he had the green but the truck sounds like it may have been more visible to him than he was to the truck before he got squashed. I'm not even sure what a help would do in this case save for prevent some scratches maybe, seems like the foam would have compressed but he would have still had about the same pressure on his head without a helmet.
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langston
Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 1:52 pm
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 5547Location: Columbia City
Eric_s wrote:
Also, maybe our lucky idiot cyclist needs to slow down at street crossings and learn to use his brakes: A helmet can be useful if you crash, but it's even better not to crash.
come on, you know he didn't have any brakes on his Fuji track bike.
Here's an alternative headline; " Dipshit College Kid Rides Like A Dipshit, Death Once Again Cheated By Technology"
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 3:16 pm
Joined: 02 Feb 2007Posts: 258Location: cap hill
you know i was thinking of buying a new road helment, guess that sells me on a giro now huh.
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