LA, Sunday April 24: ghost bike tie up R.I.P Manny santizo »
link goes to Midnight Ridazz thread about a ghost bike memorial for Manny Santizo
LA: Chatsworth High Senior Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver »
A hit-and-run driver is at large after striking a 17-year-old bicyclist and fleeing the scene in Canoga Park Wednesday night. German Alex Romero, a senior at Chatsworth High School from Reseda, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Romero was riding bicycles along with a 17-year-old friend on northbound De Soto Avenue near Valerio when he was struck from behind by a Toyota Corolla or Camry hatchback, according to the LAPD. The driver then sped away from the scene. Romero’s friend was not injured.
Anyone with information can call the LAPD Valley Division at 818-644-8034 or 818-644-8032.
Ghost bikes make a fitting memorial in London »
Eilidh’s Ghost Bike and the painful truth that still more people are being killed all the time
via @KaraByerswriter
Ghost Bike on Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge
crossy’s gig, 20.3.11
one year on, still sorely missed
ghost bike for 70 year old Carlos Espinoza Ruiz, killed by bus driver who tried to flee the scene after dragging the cyclist several feet. witnesses at the scene stopped the driver, Benito Navarro, who was then arrested by municipal police.
memorial and ghost bike installation took place on March 2. this is the second ghost bike installed in Guadalajara so far in 2011.
for more information, please visit http://www.bicicletablancagdl.org
Guadalajara, Mexico, installs 2nd ghost bike for 2011 »
original post in Spanish, translation via Google Translate below:
GUADALAJARA, JALISCO (27/FEB/2011) .- A cyclist traveling on streets of the town of Guadalajara was rammed by a transport unit and as a result the man died.
The accident occurred around 15.30 hours on the road to the junction with Gregorio Dávila José María Vigil, in the Santa Teresita.
The man about 70 years and has not been identified, to reach the corner with a Vigil Jose Ma Route 142 truck ran over him and dragged him at least five meters.
The driver, named Benito Navarro uniad driving the S-1606, sought to flee but was stopped by witnesses.
Minutes later, paramedics arrived Delgadillo Araujo Green Cross to meet the victim, but it had already died from his injuries.
For its part, the truck driver was arrested by municipal police in Guadalajara and delivered to the Attorney specializing in public transport to surrender your statement of the facts and determine responsibility.
With this death, and added seven people dead so far this year where they are involved units of public transport in the Metropolitan Zone of Guadalajara.
The report / Omar Ruvalcaba
http://www.informador.com.mx/jalisco/2011/274131/6/muere-ciclista-atropellado-por-camion-urbano.htm
University of Otago Christchurch researcher Lucia Alonso-Gonzalez hopes to bring the ghost bikes idea to the city.
“As a cyclist myself I’m quite conscious of the dangers cyclists have to go through,” she said. “I’ve had my own near-misses.
“I believe it’s a beautiful memorial for the family [of a cyclist] and I believe it could be a shocking image for a motorist, especially at night.
“I have had my share of reckless drivers, absent-minded pedestrians crossing without looking, truck drivers who push you to the side of the road.
“I have had two near-misses in the past two months and I am trying to do something to improve cyclist safety nationwide.”
Albuquerque’s Duke City Wheelmen installing a ghost bikefor Santa Fe cyclist David Sciera.
Ghost bike for Tracy Milillo, Brookline MA. photo credit: bostonbiker.org
