Re: fatality in Colorado - Triathlon Week

08-23-2004, 07:09 PM

I saw this on the rec.bicycles.misc and thought that it
would be appropriate to post on rec.sport.triathlon....

-CF

"Perry Sailor" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote
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> I hadn't seen this mentioned here, so I thought I'd
provide it as a
> cautionary tale. A few days ago in Loveland, Colorado, a
prominent local
> neurologist and political candidate, in his earlly 50s,
was killed on his
> bike while competing in a triathlon. He and a car were
both approaching an
> intersection, crosswise. The policeman monitoring the
intersection for
> traffic waved the car through, apparently misjudging the
relative speeds and
> thinking the car would clear before the bike arrived.
>
> I guess the moral of the story is, even in a cop-monitored
intersection, you
> still need to pay attention to traffic.
>
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