Comments on: The Weekly Carnage http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/09/07/the-weekly-carnage-56/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: carrie http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/09/07/the-weekly-carnage-56/comment-page-1/#comment-36744 carrie Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:15:48 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/09/07/the-weekly-carnage-56/#comment-36744 A teenage boy on a bike was hit by a car in my neighborhood (Prospect Lefferts in Brooklyn) this past week. I don't know if he survived, but it sounds pretty bad. Here's a first-person account: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lefferts/message/4052 A teenage boy on a bike was hit by a car in my neighborhood (Prospect Lefferts in Brooklyn) this past week. I don’t know if he survived, but it sounds pretty bad. Here’s a first-person account:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lefferts/message/4052

]]> By: Larry Littlefield http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/09/07/the-weekly-carnage-56/comment-page-1/#comment-36732 Larry Littlefield Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:06:02 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/09/07/the-weekly-carnage-56/#comment-36732 "Two bicyclists were struck and critically injured Thursday night when a 1997 Nissan Pathfinder jumped a curb in New Cassel and crashed into them as they rode along a sidewalk on Old Country Road...The driver of the Pathfinder was identified as Marie Exantus, 53, of Westbury...was not charged." Did they charge the cyclists with riding on the sidewalk? After reading this blog for a few weeks, and this post each week, it sure seems like helmets are a good idea. I didn't wear them riding a bike as a kid in the 1960s, but then again I didn't wear a seatbelt back then either. “Two bicyclists were struck and critically injured Thursday night when a 1997 Nissan Pathfinder jumped a curb in New Cassel and crashed into them as they rode along a sidewalk on Old Country Road…The driver of the Pathfinder was identified as Marie Exantus, 53, of Westbury…was not charged.”

Did they charge the cyclists with riding on the sidewalk?

After reading this blog for a few weeks, and this post each week, it sure seems like helmets are a good idea. I didn’t wear them riding a bike as a kid in the 1960s, but then again I didn’t wear a seatbelt back then either.

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