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Another cyclist fatality

Saw this one on the Wisconsin Bike Fed blog:

http://wisconsinbikefed.org/2016/06/22/driver-hits-kills-co-worker-...

Unlike other incidents I've seen reported, this one appears to involve people who likely knew each other. The two were coworkers, both working for WS Packaging Solutions in Algoma, WI.

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Permalink Reply by Jon Cunningham on December 17, 2016 at 12:48pm
Permalink Reply by Jon Cunningham on August 26, 2016 at 10:50am

Those quiet suburban neighborhoods can be very deceptive. I recently had 3 different cars run stop signs in front of me within 20 minutes in sleepy little Clarendon Hills. One of them almost took me out. Chased that one down, and it turned out to be an old lady. She denied it all, even though I had it on my GoPro.

Permalink Reply by mike w. on August 26, 2016 at 10:56am

Too many drivers treat that octagonal sign as "stop optional." Pretty much like the red lights on north Sheridan Rd.

That is IF they even SEE them at all...

Permalink Reply by Fai Mok on August 26, 2016 at 11:52am

Did you show her your evidence on video?  No denying hard evidence.

Permalink Reply by Jon Cunningham on August 26, 2016 at 10:36pm

No, but I still have it. File size is too big to post here. Since I was swerving for my life, the composition only shows her car at the beginning of the encounter, and again as I recovered to chase her down. It's obvious that I swerved into the wrong lane to avoid being hit. This woman was a real "Mrs. Magoo." I don't know how she passed a driver's test.

Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on August 27, 2016 at 7:20am
Probably hasn't had to take an actual driving test in two or three decades...
Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on August 25, 2016 at 11:13am

Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on August 26, 2016 at 12:48pm
Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on August 27, 2016 at 7:58am

A later report identified the victim as Karen McKeachie, age 63.

Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on August 29, 2016 at 1:30pm
Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on August 26, 2016 at 3:02pm

Not something I'm officially tracking (I'm only searching for cycling deaths in the US), but I suspect it's only a matter of time before this happens here: 

Second deadly road accident linked to ‘Pokemon Go’ in Japan

In the latest case, the driver, a worker in his 20s, told investigators he was looking away at the time of the collision as he was trying to charge his mobile phone. The battery was almost dead, he said, because he had been playing the game.

It's not obvious if the driver had been playing Pokemon Go while driving or not.

Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on August 26, 2016 at 3:18pm

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