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Brighton crash victim was recent Smith College grad

Pineda Marly Pineda, who died Monday afternoon in a collision at Kelton Street and Commonwealth Avenue, completed a master's in exercise and sport science this year at Smith College, two years after earning a BA in education and child study there, according to a remembrance posted on the Smith Web site.

Pineda,24 and a native of Bosque Farms, NM, was working as the interim head coach at the Cambridge Master’s Swim Club and was serving as a volunteer coach on the swim team at Harvard. At Smith, she set records as a member of the swimming team.

“This is clearly a great loss for us all," said Kim Bierwert, coach of the Smith swimming and diving team. "Marly was a great force in our lives and lived life to its fullest, giving much more than most people give in a lifetime let alone in 20-some-odd years. We will miss her, and she will live on in us all. Her contributions and ability to give were unmatched."

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Sounds like a great person, which makes this accident all the more tragic.

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I am sorry for your loss.

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Please wear your bike helmet. I cringe whenever I see a bicyclist without one.

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Nobody's here for what you're selling. My condolences for this loss. She sounded like someone worth getting to know.

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If she would have been wearing a helmet, there is a chance we would not be reading this page right now.

This was a terrible tragedy, and the only thing the rest of us can do is learn from this. And one lesson to learn is -- Always wear a helmet when riding a bike.

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I think anyone with half a brain would take away that lesson without the roving Public Service Announcement gang of city commuters continuously asserting their superiority over a person the people on this page are attempting to grieve. Take your lessons in the obvious and your self-serving moralist screeds elsewhere... there's mourning going on here.

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I didn't even write the first comment about helmets, so please calm down.

You mention that this woman sounds like a person worth getting to know.

Personally, I wish we all had never heard of poor woman. I wish Marly Pineda was sitting at work right now, probably getting ready to leave and ride her bike home. She was just another anonymous biker until Monday, and now she's gone and we all know her name.

The only thing we can do is learn from this tragedy.

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Sure we could learn about it... privately. But publicly, in forums like this, we could respect this woman's memory and her passing by offering nothing but condolences and sympathy -- which is something the adults reading this board may need more right now.

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Look at the other comments on this page and then look at yours. Which one isn't like the others? This is someone's daughter and friend, not your opportunity to give a lecture about something everyone here knows.

I am deeply sorry for your loss and for the loss of a spirited member of our community. It sounds as if she'll be well missed, but that she brought a lot of joy while she was here.

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...but as a parent, these are the kinds of stories I point out to kids to say 'See, THIS is why you wear a helmet every time you ride." All deaths are tragic but some can be teachable moments. This is one of them.

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The kids who saw my kid wipe out at the bottom of a hill and walk away bloody but okay? They got a teachable moment.

This accident, as described by witnesses, was not likely survivable with a helmet. Helmets increase your margin of error - they don't eliminate it entirely.

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But don't run off at the mouth here. By the way, good job expressing your condolences.

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Right above you is a tribute to this young woman and this is the comments field you choose to have your "teachable moment" on? Here's an idea: Go home, teach this moment and stop listening to yourself speak for two seconds. Every other post about this woman has some dimestore preacher telling everyone to use a helmet... as if they needed that little reminder. Again, the sorry speaks for itself and this isn't the time or place for you to mother the entire board. Show some respect, bikier-than-thou.

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It sounds like she was a wonderful young woman.

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to her friends and family.

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I lost a friend to a freak accident when he was this age. I know that this must be absolutely brutal for those who knew and loved her. Life is short and can be over in a blink of an eye. May you live long and well in her name.

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If you knew this woman you would realize it is a terrible loss. I have seen her swim and she was amazing. I remember seeing her parents at the meets and how proud they were of her. I can't even imagine the pain they have been going through. It's a terrible tragedy.

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The Globe has a very nice piece today with interviews from those who knew her through her swimming activities.

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I had the amazing privilege of calling Marly my friend. I have known her for 6 years now, and she was an inspiration. She did what she loved and was so excited to live her life. She is gonna be missed more than words can even describe. she did so much in her short life that i can only imagine what she would have done with more time.

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