[SDCBC] FW: 10news.com Teenager Killed In Carmel Valley Bike Crash

[Kathy Keehan]

From: Tim Brooks [mailto:tbrooks at qualcomm.com] 
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 8:01 AM
To: DarrylMacKenzie at Cox.Net
Cc: JonIsaacs at aol.com; sdcbc at bikesandiego.org
Subject: Re: [SDCBC] 10news.com Teenager Killed In Carmel Valley Bike Crash

 

I used to see this boy and his friend riding to school several times a week,
thinking more than once that they seemed to really enjoy the trip (and
wondering why my 15-year-old daughter couldn't make it the same school on
her bike).  It is marked Bike Lane--No Parking on very small signs (I looked
for them this morning and it's the first time I've noticed them) at the
beginning of each block and on the curve about 50 feet before the accident
site.  Landscape maintenance trucks are often parked in the lane, as are
dozens of construction workers' vehicles early in the morning waiting to get
in the gate to the Grand Del Mar hotel construction site.

At 07:46 AM 11/1/2007, Darryl MacKenzie wrote:

Jon & all:
 
She was not sure. She thought it was so marked, assumed so, but could not
say for certain. 
 
The gravity of the situation weighed heavily on her and the several other
women walkers she was with. It was a very emotionally scene. She also has 3
children, including a boy only a few months past his 16th birthday. I could
tell she was still upset when she came to my home for dinner last night. 
 
Darryl MacKenzie
DarrylMacKenzie at Cox.Net
(619) 303-7316 
 

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From: sdcbc-bounces at bikesandiego.org [
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mailto:sdcbc-bounces at bikesandiego.org] On Behalf Of JonIsaacs at aol.com
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 5:30 AM
To: sdcbc at bikesandiego.org
Subject: Re: [SDCBC] 10news.com Teenager Killed In Carmel Valley Bike Crash
 
In a message dated 10/31/07 8:46:16 PM Pacific Standard Time,
DarrylMacKenzie at Cox.Net writes:


My girl friend came across this accident while walking this morning shortly
after it happened, before the cyclist was transported from the scene. She
tells me that the truck was definitely parked in the bike lane. 



She said she thought the vehicle was parked in an odd location in that there
were no residences or businesses near the spot where the vehicle was parked.
But, the vehicle was stopped in the traffic lane for bicycle traffic. 




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Darryl:

  Did you girlfriend notice if the Bike Lane was also Marked "NO PARKING"?
As far as I know it is legal to park in a Bike Lane unless it is marked
otherwise.  As others have commented,  it is not uncommon for vehicles to be
parked in a Bike Lane that is marked No Parking.  

I imagine there are some lessons in this incident, probably not the time to
discuss them yet.  Anytime someone goes down, it is sad.

Jon


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