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News / Breaking News Cop Car Hits Cyclist
Posted by Unpaid Intern on Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:46 AM
Posted by news intern Sarah Anne Lloyd.
Over at seattlepi.com, Scott Sunde reports that a marked patrol car hit a cyclist today at 8:43 a.m. on 12th Avenue South and South Jackson Street. The female rider's leg may have been broken in the collision.
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Thank god it wasn't the cop that got hurt. We'd be forced to endure another pro-cop parade downtown.
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Well, the PI comments are already blaming the cyclist. Let's hope cooler heads prevail over here at Slog.
Sigh. Never mind.
Sigh. Never mind.
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Are there no witnesses or better yet youtube videos of the incident?
I used to live in fear of hitting Seattle cyclists as they blew stop signs, turned without signaling, suddenly jumped the curb off the sidewalk into the road, etc. Regardless of how irresponsible their behavior is, it's incumbent on car drivers to be more careful…
I used to live in fear of hitting Seattle cyclists as they blew stop signs, turned without signaling, suddenly jumped the curb off the sidewalk into the road, etc. Regardless of how irresponsible their behavior is, it's incumbent on car drivers to be more careful…
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When oh dear Jebus when will cyclists learn that if they want to take on a car, the odds are so heavily stacked against them it's not worth doing the math!
Note to Cyclists: you will ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS lose when you chose to get righteously indignant at a car. Don't be "dead right". We want to see your firm worked out fannies walking this earth with us.
Note to Cyclists: you will ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS lose when you chose to get righteously indignant at a car. Don't be "dead right". We want to see your firm worked out fannies walking this earth with us.
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That is a big intersection with an annoyingly long light to have to wait for. My money is on the cyclist running the light.
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Call me age-ist, but I'm doubting that a 59-year-old woman "blew through" the intersection at 12th and Jackson.
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Drove past this morning, must have been a bit afterward. Probably five or six squad cars in the area, and west bound traffic stopped on Jackson. It looked the accident wasn't at the intersection, but just West of it, at the first or second driveway. That's where the mangled bike was. Didn't see the woman, so can't report anything about her condition.
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The whole intersection is a mess for cars, peds, and bikes. I'd put good money that the infrastructure is whats really to blame.
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I always wonder what the psychology is behind the "blame the person w/ less power" attitude. It could be they have a inner fascist streak inside, where they secretly worship those in positions of power. Power = morally good for them.
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I'd bet on the cop being the one that blew through the light. I ride to work damned early in the morning and the cops congregate right around King Street Station. The only people on the road at that time are me and five coworkers, but there have been several times where I've had the green and the cop ran the light without even looking.
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Sounds like what happened on Aurora Ave. North several years ago, when a cop killed a cyclist running a red light.
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