Cyclist identified in deadly crash
Wednesday in Minneapolis
KSTP-TV [Minneapolis St. Paul],
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: voxpopuli,
11/24/2019 8:39:15 PM
The cyclist who died after a collision with a semi truck Wednesday afternoon in Minneapolis has been identified.
Alexander David Wolf, 30, of Minneapolis, died Wednesday from multiple blunt force injuries in the crash, according to a news release from the Hennepin County Medical Examiner.
Police said Wolf and a commercial box truck pulling a construction trailer.. (snip)
Dozens of people from the group Safe Streets Save Lives gathered Friday evening to create a human wall along a bike lane in the area where Wolf was killed. They say they want the city to install more barriers to keep vehicles out of bike lanes.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 11/24/2019 8:45:42 PM (No. 244594)
I never understood the logic of a bicyclist not using common sense and caution when in close proximity to motor vehicles, especially semi-trucks. And in a city overrun with Somalis. This is the bicycle safety element that is missing, less the install of concrete barriers.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 11/24/2019 9:07:05 PM (No. 244601)
Semi trucks have a lot of blind spots. I’m trying to figure out how a truck turning right would hit someone on a bike Big trucks don’t exactly turn quick or on a dime.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Omen55 11/24/2019 9:12:39 PM (No. 244603)
The problem with cyclists is that they think the world should yield to them.
Physics doesn't work like that.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird 11/24/2019 9:35:03 PM (No. 244614)
A truck or any other vehicle turning right would turn across a bike lane that was parallel to the vehicle lane. The answer isn’t more protests. It is more training in bike safety "(you may think you have the right of way, but they are bigger than you”) and knock off the notion that the bicyclists are a protected species. They go wherever they feel like going and we are supposed to watch out for them. They aren’t always in those lanes they’ve painted on our streets. Interestingly enough the ones who have been problems recently in our experience are older like this 30 year old. We saw a doozy the other day who had to be 50ish. Even kids have a better survival instinct than these turkeys...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Terry_tr6 11/24/2019 9:38:18 PM (No. 244616)
my experience has been that the more serious the cyclist(special clip-on shoes, cycling togs, bikes the price of a used car) the more they use the laws of the road when it favors them and ignore them when it inconveniences them(like stop signs and pedestrian right of way). My best day was getting a rescue call to a wreck where the first or second guy in a pack of a dozen or more serious cyclists went down and took them all out. lots of pain
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
tsquare 11/24/2019 9:43:54 PM (No. 244619)
#3. A truck pulls beside a bike or just a little ahead, then turns right, the bike is in a coffin corner..unable to turn out of it. The rear wheels of the truck pin the bike as they cut a shorter radius turn, even if the bike was able to stop (I saw a pedestrian on a sidewalk get nailed that way). And, failure to yield to a row vehicle does not give the row vehicle freedom to cause an accident.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 11/24/2019 9:49:32 PM (No. 244621)
The bicyclists last righteous thought was, "That darn truck's not gonna make me move out MY bike lane".
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 11/24/2019 9:58:32 PM (No. 244625)
Years ago, an acquaintance was killed by a bike messenger who ran a red light, clipped my acquaintance and caused him to fall back on the curb smashing his brain stem. The messenger never stopped.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
earlybird 11/24/2019 10:36:47 PM (No. 244645)
The protesters’ point about barriers is not logical. Motor vehicles cannot be kept from turning right at intersections. Conventional wisdom says that you don’t drive in a truck’s blindspots.
Both the bicyclist and the trucker were traveling in the same direction on a one-way street, with the bike lane on the right. The trucker turned right into another one-way street. If the bicyclist was traveling alongside the truck, he could not have seen the trucker’s right turn signal. Sounds as though the bicyclist hit the truck when it turned in front of him. The trucker probably didn’t know the bicyclist was even there.
I looked it up on my laptop map.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 11/24/2019 11:18:29 PM (No. 244658)
What are the odds that the driver was an illegal.
And #1, why do you assume that the cyclist was at fault? Most of the time the vehicle driver runs down a
cyclist.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
watashiyo 11/24/2019 11:41:34 PM (No. 244671)
A bicycle should only be driven at the park.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 11/24/2019 11:42:53 PM (No. 244674)
Bike riders here in MINNEAPOLISTAN feel superior to us rubes in cars and weave in and out of traffic while not paying attention to traffic signs! It is a terrible problem!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Gordon Freeman 11/25/2019 12:47:43 AM (No. 244695)
Hey I have an idea, why not close off dangerous streets to bicyclists? I have seen them on some of crazy dangerous roads and streets. You would think they had a death wish.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
MDConservative 11/25/2019 8:03:07 AM (No. 244861)
#13 - That's hardly crazy. Many streets have vehicle restrictions. Perhaps one needs designated "Urban Truck Routes" that ban bicycles.
#3 - Many pedestrians walk into crosswalks with the same misunderstanding. Next time you're in a shopping center parking lot, count the number who never cast a glance in your direction...just keep walking, probably on their phones.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
JackBurton 11/25/2019 8:21:34 AM (No. 244875)
I like the idea of bikes. I like to drive (and, really, at my age, it's the only option). What I don't like is people thinking that the two should always and everywhere share the same space. In cities, with lots of parallel streets and roads, set aside some corridors for bikes only. The main commuting roads? Vehicles only. In the country? Set up a path along side the road but not on the road.
Brains, people.
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