Cyclist hurt during ride around the lake
A cyclist participating in America’s Most Beautiful Bike Ride was airlifted to Renown Medical Center on Sunday with non-life threatening injuries.
“(The) bicyclist took a tumble onto the roadway. He was then hit by car,” Bernadette Smith with Douglas County Sheriff’s Office told Lake Tahoe News.
The accident occurred near Zephyr Cove about 2:05pm June 5.
Curtis Fong, who puts on the annual event, told LTN, “I know that when friends picked up his bike from my (registration) tent that he was texting them that he may be released from the hospital after an MRI that evening.”
No further details were available about the cyclist, including age and home town.
— Lake Tahoe News staff report
Golly gee an accident during the ride on a very substandard road with hardly any room for both a car and bicycle to occupy the same lateral space. Luck is the bicyclist co-pilot.
It appears that the idea of mixing certain types of traffic might not be possible in the manner that we have been. Many examples of the failure of this experiment are evident. Just a few days ago, five bicyclists were killed on a city street by a driver of a pick up. Congestion and mixed traffic are becoming a problem. We can’t continue to ignore the facts. Mixed traffic is unsafe for all who use roads.
For starters, how about a law that requires bicycles to use a bike trail if it is available?