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street view
Water St. at Rt. 16 in Natick
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Water+St,+Natick,+MA...
and guess what's exactly 800 feet away to the west-west-south...
...a nice big intersection. I bet she t-boned him at the intersection and then dragged him until she reached Water Street.
PS:Looking at the comments on the story, here we go again with the whole bullshit about "licensing cyclists." Because as we see, licensing drivers works so well! And, of course, all those pesky cyclists don't have driver's licenses too, right?
I was there
No cell phone, no road rage, she was a middle aged woman on her way to a knitting club and she thought that she blew a tire so pulled off the main road to water street to investigate.
....And I was not there!
Turns out she was a moron. All this while I thought she was hard of hearing and did not have the vision to see the other drivers going ballistic about her ignorance of the passenger under the car.
Read the Comments under the story
Wow. And I mean WOW.
I suspect those saying "poor driver"
... are people commenting from home because they had their licenses yanked. Serious deficiencies of thinking there ... the real world isn't the rather forgiving motorcross course at Legoland.
What's wrong with these
What's wrong with these people? The poor cyclist gets dragged for 300 yards and everyone is blaming HIM?!
Most of the remarks are anti-driver
Only the postings of a couple of obvious nutcases go the opposite direction. (Unless you have a totally different array of messages than I do).
Here's the equation
Rock paper scissors.
Know what I mean?
Except pedestrian never covers car.
No, I don't
Care to explain?
I see two different issues
There are two distinct issues here:
1. The cyclist getting hit
2. The cyclist getting dragged
The "getting hit" part is tough. We have very few facts about what actually happened, so in all fairness, it's hard to attribute blame right now (as much as I'd like to).
The "getting dragged" part has no excuse - period. I can't think of any scenario where one could unknowingly do something like this. The only possible explanations are driver impairment, a cell phone, dimentia, and similar scenarios that display not only total irresponsibility on the driver's part, but also a sickening display of total disregard for fellow man.
Getting hit is one thing. Getting dragged is downright ugly.
Even if one didn't know one was dragging
...a bicycle and its rider, one ought to know that something is seriously amiss -- and stop to find out why. If one isn't able to be aware enough to notice this, one ought not be using any sort of vehicle (or even walking outside unattended).
Bicyclist undergoes surgery, in serious condition
Wicked Local Newton updates the story, says he was wearing a helmet and reflective gear and that his bike had front and rear lights.