A 55-year-old bicyclist was injured when his bike collided with a pickup Monday night in Spokane Valley.
At about 7:30 p.m., Guy Werner was southbound on his mountain bike in the northbound lane of Pines Road, police said. A Ford F150, driven by Gregory J. Cozza, stopped at the intersection of Pines and Fourth Avenue. As Cozza drove west into the intersection, his truck collided with Werner, according to the Washington State Patrol.
Werner was not wearing a helmet, WSP reported. He was transported to Valley Hospital, where his condition was unavailable Monday night.
It seems like pedestrian-versus-vehicle and motorcylce-versus-vehicle accidents have been the trend lately, but I've been hearing about a lot more bicycle-versus-vehicle accidents too. This is why you need a helmet folks.
2 comments:
And why you should ride in the same direction as traffic, especially if you're in their lane of travel!
It's unfortunate that someone was injured, but if you're going to ride that irresponsibly... it's going to catch up with you sometime.
It also doesn't help with motorists being tolerant of bicyclists....
I can't remember who, but someone told me recently that there are a lot more people riding bikes now because of the bad economy. Most are either new to it or just don't care to acquaint themselves with the rules of riding as they don't think they'll be doing it forever. So they ride irresponsibly, don't wear helmets, etc. With this increase in riders, of course there's going to be a corresponding increase in accidents. This also increases the amount of drivers and bicyclists complaining about each other. So bottom line, what we keep coming down to, is that education is needed. The other bottom line though, is that there's no money to do so beceause of the bad economy. We're still working on a way around this catch 22.
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