Forum Home | Log in | Signup | My Page | Rules | FAQ | Boards | Members | Search
« FFFT3 Home | Email msg. | Reply to msg. | Post new | Board info. Previous | Home | Next

Re: Speaking of assholes hitting cyclists.......

By: zzstar in FFFT3 | Recommend this post (0)
Fri, 06 Sep 19 7:35 PM | 55 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Food For Further Thought 3 		Msg. 52576 of 65535
(This msg. is a reply to 52573 by zzstar)
Jump:
Jump to board:
Jump to msg. #

“VN: Starting from head to toe, what is the list of your injuries?

AB: My theory is that the van hit me on the left side of my body, which caused most of the severe injuries, and then there were more minor injures that happened when I hit the ground. No doctor has told me this. Starting with my head, I had a minor concussion that I slept off in the hospital. I broke one of my cervical spinal vertebrae, which is scary. I broke my humerus and all of my ribs and my sternum. My pelvis is fractured in three places. My femur was broken, the head snapped off. Tibia and fibula both shattered, and my ankle was broken. Most severely, there were 7-8 vertebrae in my back that were broken: Five of those were fused and two were so badly damaged that they were replaced with titanium cages. I have two collapsed lungs, a laceration on my liver, and some bleeding out of my heart. They refer to me as a poly trauma. Any one of those things can kill you—well, maybe not my ankle. I forgot, I also broke my right collarbone. That’s the one thing that happened when I hit the ground, I think.

VN: What are your thoughts on how better infrastructure or driver’s education could prevent crashes like this from happening?

AB: We don’t know who was driving the van yet, or what their circumstance was of the crash. If they were texting or drunk or just hate cyclists and wanted to take it out on me. Certainly, driver education in this country is laughable and I’d love to see more serious efforts to teach people how to drive, and that it’s a real responsibility to be behind the wheel. You’re controlling a deadly weapon, and one that is never more than a few seconds away from killing somebody. The other thing is you get a driver’s license at 17 and it could be valid the rest of your life. If I was emperor of the U.S., I would make Driver’s Ed more stringent and I’d re-test every five years. And the other flip side is enforcement. It’s different here, but where I’m from in New York City you see people drive through red lights constantly. Nobody uses turn signals. There’s very little to no enforcement and so I’d love to see enforcement improved.”

Got it, DeBrainless?

Asshole left him for dead.......on an open road....

http://www.velonews.com/2019/09/news/qa-andrew-bernstein-on-hit-and-run-i-came-very-close-to-death_500293

» You can also:
- - - - -
The above is a reply to the following message:
New York City Considering ‘License Requirements’ for Bicyclists
By: zzstar in FFFT3
Fri, 06 Sep 19 4:15 PM 		Msg. 52573 of 65535

De Brainless: Mayor Endorses Meritless Helmet and Licensing Requirements for Cyclists

http://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/09/04/de-brainless-mayor-endorses-meritless-helmet-and-licensing-requirements-for-cyclists/

I hate it when out of shape dickheads try to tell cyclists what to do or to get off the road.

Otoh, there are serious problems in NYC with people on bikes, usually messengers and delivery turkeys riding in between cars out of nowhere, and in the opposite direction on the city’s one way streets. The answer is not helmets, but issuing tickets to the businesses that employ them. I have not seen many individuals riding disobeying traffic rules, it’s the “pros” who need culling. And helmets are not going to change the situation. You don’t put a fence around your house when the problem is a leaky roof.

Helmets are a good idea, in general, no doubt, but not in this case. Licensing for “pros” makes sense, so the businesses that hire them and the idiots themselves pay for how they go about their business.

As for the rest, leave them alone. I believe in survival of the fittest. And institute a three foot law in NY, so assholes in motorized vehicles stay the fk away from me. I don’t ride, of course, in NYC, I ride in the country, and I do 50mph descents, so the 3 ft law should educate assholes with no clue what kind of a wave a car passing by can create when too close, especially trucks. Most people swing far away, needlessly, when passing, to the other lane, but then there is the odd turkey that is oblivious and almost scrapes you, as well as the odd motherfkr with a truck who gasses it with plumes of black smoke as he passes by, and becomes a candidate for tire slashing if I ever find him stopped some place. The only ones who are usually respectful are bike riders who understand the issue of riding on two wheels on public roads, from ...personal experience.

« FFFT3 Home | Email msg. | Reply to msg. | Post new | Board info. Previous | Home | Next