He was from Brooklyn and was hit by a truck. No other information yet. :(
25-year-old cyclist killed on Houston Street
Wed, 06/22/2005 - 5:04pm
Thu, 06/23/2005 - 9:22am
#1
this has become deadly serious - not only the deaths and injuries, but the cavalier attitude of nypd. a driver knocks down and crushes a cyclist to death and gets a violation for inspection and goes home while the cyclist goes to the morgue. wtf!!
it seems the police believe we, as cyclist, assume the risk of riding, despite moving viloations of motor vehicles that make the deaths amount to manslaughter - but the driver gos home, has dinner and a complains about those pesky cyclists causing his ticket for a violation.
r.i.p.
Thu, 06/23/2005 - 1:09pm
#2
Death-by-Driver (con't): A little right-of-way problem here?
We aren't told the direction the cyclist was traveling. We are told the truck was turning.
According to law/code, turning vehicles must yield the right-of-way to vehicles going straight.
C. three years ago a cyclist was riding south on South Street. A limo was going north, then turned...into the oncoming cyclist, killing him. No ticket was issued.
I'm sure it's a comfort to bereaved families to know their killed kin had the right-of-way, even if the police didn't.
Thu, 06/23/2005 - 4:18pm
#3
Some perspective
Not to defend the driver or the police. But I try to recall the few auto accidents I had in the past. I come to realize the police doesn't always issue a ticket even when the fault was very clear...
Accident number 1: A driver ran a stop sign, I hit his car. The other driver was clearly at fault but no ticket was issued. His insurance promptly paid for the repair of my car.
Accident number 2: I rear-ended a car stopped in traffic at a blind curve. I was at fault and my insurance had to pay (and my rate went up). But no ticket, fortunately.
Just becasue the cop didn't issue a ticket, I don't think it follow that the cop think the cyclist deserves to die or the driver had made no mistake. At least need to wait for the accident report.
Thu, 06/23/2005 - 4:08pm
#4
IIRC, the cyclist had been knocked down by another vehicle and was run over by the turning truck. That doesn't explain why the truck turned into the street going too fast for his field of vision.
Thu, 06/23/2005 - 6:00pm
#5
what makes you think it was different truck
As I read the reports, it was the same truck which knocked the cyclist down that ran over him (driver didn't see him, and apparently didn't hear him either).
We all should know that right turning trucks are about the biggest risk to cyclists (and pedestrians-- just note the frequent reports of people hit while crossing the street, usually in crosswalks).
Wed, 06/22/2005 - 9:46pm
#6
more detail
MANHATTAN: CYCLIST KILLED IN TRUCK ACCIDENT A bicyclist was killed in a collision with a furniture truck in Little Italy yesterday morning, the police said. The truck driver, who had been traveling west on East Houston Street, told the police that the collision occurred at 10:24 a.m. as he was turning right onto Elizabeth Street. The cyclist, Andrew Ross Morgan, 25, of Brooklyn, was trapped under the truck. Mr. Morgan was taken to St. Vincent's Manhattan Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The driver was not identified, and the accident was being investigated yesterday.
Thu, 06/23/2005 - 6:00am
#7
horrible
"http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/321735p-275033c.html
According to the Post, truck driver Howard Humphrey, 42, was cited for having an expired inspection sticker.
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Riding to work this morning I had to scream at a double-parked van that started to move into traffic as I was passing and would have pinned me next to an approaching panel truck. That only goes so far. Fortunately, the truck driver saw what was going on, slowed down, and swerved left. I thanked him at the stoplight. ""We have to respect each other,"" he said.
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Thu, 06/23/2005 - 9:12am
#8
Houston St. between Bowery and Elizabeth
That block is dangerous, because the street has been severely narrowed by the underground construction in the middle. To add to the danger, the state of the pavement on the south side of Houston, just west of the Bowery, is unbelievably atrocious. I fell there a few weeks ago and injured my knee.
Thu, 06/23/2005 - 9:25am
#9
manslaughter
this has become deadly serious - not only the deaths and injuries, but the cavalier attitude of nypd. a driver knocks down and crushes a cyclist to death and gets a violation for inspection and goes home while the cyclist goes to the morgue. wtf!!
it seems the police believe we, as cyclist, assume the risk of riding, despite moving viloations of motor vehicles that make the deaths amount to manslaughter - but the driver gos home, has dinner and a complains about those pesky cyclists causing his ticket for a violation.
r.i.p.
