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chuckthomas

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From: North Austin (Rundberg)

Registered: 2008-05-27

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Thomas F. Linsley dies in 2012, 16 years after being hit & run'd

Thomas F. Linsley was struck by a hit and run motorist at 26th and Speedway on the UT campus in 1996.  He survived only to spend the rest of his life in a minimally responsive vegetative state.  He died on January 21, 2012, almost 16 years after the crash.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/states … =155672278

Thomas F. Linsley Thomas F. Linsley, 64 Oldest son of the late Francis S. and Ruth I. Linsley, brother of the late Joel A. and Brian M. Linsley of Albany, N.Y., survived by his brother Wayne D. Linsley and his nephew Wayne D. Linsley Jr., both of Fort Lauderdale, Fl. Born May 27, 1947 in Albany, New York he graduated from the Albany Academy and received his Bachelors from Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, and his Masters from the University of Texas. Tom moved to Texas in 1971 and worked at The U.T. Austin Computation Center. Tom passed on January 21, 2012 and will finally know peace after being struck by an unknown hit and run driver while riding his bike on Campus in 1996 and sustaining a traumatic and irreversible brain injury. Memorial contributions may be made to Family Eldercare or Hospice Austin. - See more at:

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/states … PDcFh.dpuf

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Re: Thomas F. Linsley dies in 2012, 16 years after being hit & run'd

Thank you very much for posting this.  The Linsley case was the very first one I reported on, back in 1996.  It was my among my first forays in bicycle activism, where I concentrated mostly on justice issues.  Here's my writeup, which has been on this site for almost twenty years now:

http://bicycleaustin.info/justice/details.html#linsley

His case is very sad.  I'm angry that the streets are so dangerous for cyclists, that so many drivers are willing to leave us for dead, and that drivers foam at the mouth about cyclists who bend traffic laws when those scofflaws aren't actually killing anyone.