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#1 2016-07-08 15:03:36

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Hit-and-run truck kills 3-year-old boy at 5900 Cameron Rd., 5/25/16

The boy was walking in the crosswalk with his family.  The pickup truck was turning around the corner.

http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/cr … ys-/nrTH9/

Which have you heard more outrage/complaints about in your lifetime:  hit-and-run drivers killing pedestrians, or bicyclists blowing red lights and not actually killing anyone?

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#2 2016-07-09 10:23:51

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Re: Hit-and-run truck kills 3-year-old boy at 5900 Cameron Rd., 5/25/16

MichaelBluejay wrote:

Which have you heard more outrage/complaints about in your lifetime:  hit-and-run drivers killing pedestrians, or bicyclists blowing red lights and not actually killing anyone?


Yeah, I get asked about my bike commute by the car drivers at work all of the time.  Invariably the subject of cyclists running red lights comes up.  I always try to steer it back to the real problem, but it gets old.

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