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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUS Safety Agency Studying Michigan Bike Crash That Killed 5
Source: Associated Press
US Safety Agency Studying Michigan Bike Crash That Killed 5
By ED WHITE, ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT Jun 10, 2016, 3:19 PM ET
A federal safety agency that investigates airplane failures, commercial truck mishaps and train derailments is taking a look at a Michigan road crash that killed five bicyclists to determine if lessons can be learned to prevent a similar tragedy.
Eric Weiss, spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, said it has been decades since the agency has "looked at bicycles and cars and safety."
An NTSB team arrived in the Kalamazoo area Thursday and will likely spend a week conducting interviews and studying the crash site, bikes and the pickup truck that hit the group, investigator Pete Kotowski said Friday.
"What drew our attention to this were the five fatalities as well as the number of injured," said Kotowski, adding that the agency also is interested in the effects of impaired driving. "The things we look at are the type of road, the lane markings, those things. We haven't reached any conclusions yet."
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By ED WHITE, ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT Jun 10, 2016, 3:19 PM ET
A federal safety agency that investigates airplane failures, commercial truck mishaps and train derailments is taking a look at a Michigan road crash that killed five bicyclists to determine if lessons can be learned to prevent a similar tragedy.
Eric Weiss, spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, said it has been decades since the agency has "looked at bicycles and cars and safety."
An NTSB team arrived in the Kalamazoo area Thursday and will likely spend a week conducting interviews and studying the crash site, bikes and the pickup truck that hit the group, investigator Pete Kotowski said Friday.
"What drew our attention to this were the five fatalities as well as the number of injured," said Kotowski, adding that the agency also is interested in the effects of impaired driving. "The things we look at are the type of road, the lane markings, those things. We haven't reached any conclusions yet."
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US Safety Agency Studying Michigan Bike Crash That Killed 5 (Original Post)
Eugene
Jun 2016
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snooper2
(30,151 posts)1. How about drunk fucking assholes hit shit and kill people?
Warpy
(111,277 posts)2. While that seems most likely
the way they've kept quiet about this suggests there might be a medical component, as well.
They know Pickett had no history of violence and not even a traffic violation to his name.
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)3. Man, that is an awesome example of shitty journalism.
They use up the first two paragraphs explaining what the NTSB does? WTF?
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)4. Build bike paths.
Pickup trucks don't plow through crowds of bicyclists in the Netherlands.
Jane Austin
(9,199 posts)5. Bike crash?
That seems a lot more like a truck crash - crashing into bicyclists.