Nothing like giving yourself several days to sober up before turning yourself in for a fatal hit-and-run.
Or maybe just to come up with a good excuse.
Or a good lawyer.
Forty-year old Los Angeles resident Christopher Bryant turned himself in to the Long Beach police yesterday, admitting that he was the alleged speeding driver who ran a stop sign and plowed into the bicycle ridden by 54-year-old Lori Ann Carreon.
Bryant hit Carreon so hard that she reportedly flew 60 feet through the air before smashing into the windshield of a parked car.
He was booked on $50,000 bond on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence, hit-and-run involving death and reckless driving.
If there was any justice, he would be charged with murder for making the conscious decision to leave Carreon to die in the street while he sped away.
Although if past is prologue, the DA’s office probably just bargain this down to reckless driving, and send Bryant on his way with a few months in jail and a slap on the back.
Let’s just hope prosecutors can at least trace his actions prior to the crash to determine if he was under the influence, or if some other factor caused him to flee.
Photo by Artyom Kulakov from Pexels.
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Evidently, riding a bike really is good for you.
A new British study shows that just a ten-minute burst of intensive exercise, like bicycling, can not only slow the growth of bowel cancer, but actually reverse cancer cell growth.
And it also lowers the risk of developing intestinal cancer by an estimated 20 percent.
There’s no mention of whether it has the same effect on other forms of cancer. But researchers intend to look into how exercise would interact with more traditional forms of cancer treatment like chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
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If you need a good laugh, Road.cc has collected the most hilarious anti-bike headlines from the very anti-bike Daily News, which isn’t exactly a fan of anyone on two wheels.
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The war on cars may be a myth, but the war on bikes just keeps on going.
Nailed it. Cycling Weekly examines New Jersey and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad e-bike law.
A letter writer in the London Telegraph not only calls for registering and licensing bike riders, but turning everyone with a cellphone into vigilantes to report scofflaw behavior. Because apparently, we’re so much more dangerous than the people in cars.
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Local
Forty-five year old tree killer Samuel Patrick Groft got a well deserved two years behind bars for riding around DTLA on his bicycle and chopping down 13 trees with a chainsaw last April.
LA County is offering a $20,000 reward in the fatal shooting of a 32-year old Bell man; Jose Manuel Rangel was killed as he was riding his bike back home after visiting his mother on Mother’s Day in 2023.
State
California will start requiring Waymo to report all crashes to the DMV, which is currently allowed to just keep those things to themself, even though the National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration, aka NHTSA, requires reporting every incident — like the dooring that injured a San Francisco bike rider, or the crash that killed a popular Bay Area cat.
Oceanside police found a 52-year old man lying next to his ebike in the roadway near Coast Highway and Seagaze Drive shortly after midnight yesterday, suffering from critical injuries to his head and upper body; it wasn’t clear if he crashed on his own, or was the victim of a hit-and-run.
San Diego received a $6.9 million grant from the San Diego Association of Governments, aka SANDAG, including $3.5 million for the Chollas Creek to Bayshore Bikeway project.
San Bernardino County will open a new 3.8-mile segment of the Santa Ana River Trail at noon today.
The annual Tour of Paso ride returns to the Paso Robles wine country March 22nd.
The San Luis Obispo city council will consider final approval of the Higuera Complete Streets Project, a key part of the city’s Active Transportation Plan, on Tuesday evening.
A San Jose man walked away from a career with tech startups in his 40s to open a bike shop; now he offers free bicycles and repairs for homeless people, saying he’s “seen magical, magical things happen” with a bicycle for someone in need.
This is how Vision Zero is supposed to work. Sacramento is fast-tracking a road diet and new buffered bike lanes on a street where four people have been killed in just the last two years.
The Sacramento Bee says yes, you can get a DUI for riding a bicycle, e-scooter or even a golf cart while under the influence.
National
Field Magazine reports your favorite bicycle brand may be pivoting to running, because that’s where the money is these days. Or maybe it’s just because the bike industry is in deep trouble these days.
If you live in Portland, this 52-year old man has ridden his bike down your street, as well as every other street in the city.
Denver is expecting around 5,000 people to turn out for the city’s Winter Bike to Work Day on Friday. Los Angeles is expecting somewhere around zero, because we don’t celebrate Winter Bike to Work Day, for reasons.
Yesterday we mentioned that two sixteen-year old Texas boys were struck by drivers while riding with a companion in cities 45 miles apart; today we learned that the boy who died was riding with his 10-year old sister, who remains hospitalized. The other boy remains in critical condition with life-threatening injuries.
A Texas man was sentenced to 15 years behind bars after his dogs attacked and killed a 46-year old man who had the misfortune of riding his bike past the man’s property; animal control had picked up dogs from his property 18 times prior to the attack, and he was banned from adopting dogs from the local animal shelter.
Brujula Bike traces the rise of Trek from a Wisconsin barn to an international bicycle powerhouse.
Philadelphia will post No Stopping signs along the city’s bike lanes after receiving a $1 million state grant, but Philadelphia Magazine just wants to know when the city will clear the damn snow out of them.
Baltimore bicyclists are begging for bike lanes on Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay Bridge, which represents a massive critical gap in the region’s bicycle network.
International
Road.cc rates the best hardtail mountain bikes you can get for the equivalent of around $950, while Off-Road.cc considers the best upgrades for your new mountain or gravel bike.
NPR reports on the weekly Sunday ciclovia on Mexico City’s Paseo de la Reforma, describing it as the most important street in Mexico, where a dog riding in a bike basket steals the show in his bike helmet and goggles.
Bicycling injuries are reaching an all-time high in London, with rental ebikes accounting for a fifth of serious injuries. Which sounds really bad, until you consider that one-fifth of 1,200 is just 240.
This is why people keep dying on the streets. An “otherwise decent” road-raging driver in the UK walked without a day behind bars for deliberately ramming a bike-riding man off the road.
Competitive Cycling
Earlier this week, we mentioned a Phoenix, Arizona man who killed a woman riding a bicycle when he allegedly fell asleep behind the wheel, claiming he would trade his life for hers if he could. Today we learned the victim was 26-year old Canadian triathlete Hannah Henry, the 2017 and 2018 US national collegiate triathlon champ, who started competing when she was just nine years old.
California mountain biker Kyle Strait would like whoever stole his custom 2024 Red Bull Rampage Ari to return it. Now.
To the surprise of no one, the track cycling events for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics will be held at the VELO Sports Center in Carson. Because seriously, where else would they hold it?
Finally…
Happy 147th birthday to the country’s first bike club. That feeling when you’ve got an e-cargo bike, a snow plow and a craving for Vietnamese food.
And if you’re going to ride your ebike while drunk, try not to fall off in front of sheriff’s deputies.
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Be safe, and stay healthy. And get vaccinated, already.
Oh, and fuck Putin.