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  1. Cops: Bicyclist Strikes Traffic Agent

    Wil Cruz Newsday

    August 24, 2003

    A bicyclist struck a traffic agent in Queens yesterday, causing the agent to bang his head on the
    concrete and leaving him with serious injuries, police said.

    The agent, whose name was not released, was tending to a victim of an assault at 3:15 p.m. on Queens
    Plaza near the 59th Street Bridge, police said. The details of the assault were not immediately
    available, police said.

    The cyclist, who was riding off the bridge at the time, ran into the agent and knocked him to the
    ground, police said. The agent, who was working with a partner, struck his head, police said.

    The agent was listed in critical but stable condition at Elmhurst Hospital Center with serious head
    injuries, police said. They said he had some bleeding in his brain, but was not likely to die.

    The second agent was not harmed, police said.

    The biker was expected to get a summons for failing to walk his bicycle through the pedestrian area,
    police said. Ken (NY) Chairman, Department Of Redundancy Department
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  2. Ken NY) said:

    The biker was expected to get a summons for failing to walk his bicycle through the pedestrian
    area, police said.

    Good. If you're going to ride on the sidewalk, you have to act like a pedestrian. (OTOH, if he was
    riding at pedestrian speeds, I retract my approval) Mitch.

  3. In article <[email hidden]>, "Ken [NY)" <[email hidden]>

    cut-and-pasted a Newsday article that said:


    The cyclist, who was riding off the bridge at the time, ran into the agent and knocked him to the
    ground, police said. The agent, who was working with a partner, struck his head, police said.

    I'm glad the cyclist was cited, and I'm glad the agent wasn't killed, but isn't someone going to
    point out that the agent should have been wearing a helmet?

  4. Ken NY) said:

    Cops: Bicyclist Strikes Traffic Agent

    Wil Cruz Newsday

    August 24, 2003

    A bicyclist struck a traffic agent in Queens yesterday, causing the agent to bang his head on the
    concrete and leaving him with serious injuries, police said.

    Shouldn't that be "a bicycle struck a traffic agent" as in "the cyclist was struck by a car"?

    [...]

    Quoted message said:

    The biker was expected to get a summons for failing to walk his bicycle through the pedestrian
    area, police said.

    Oops, I guess cyclists are being treated like motorists after all.

    --
    Chris Bird

  5. Erik Freitag said:

    In article <[email hidden]>, "Ken [NY)" <[email hidden]>

    cut-and-pasted a Newsday article that said:


    The cyclist, who was riding off the bridge at the time, ran into the agent and knocked him to the
    ground, police said. The agent, who was working with a partner, struck his head, police said.

    I'm glad the cyclist was cited, and I'm glad the agent wasn't killed, but isn't someone going to
    point out that the agent should have been wearing a helmet?

    Not until it's established that the agent was a cyclist! <g>

    --
    Chris Bird

  6. In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says...

    Quoted message said:
    Ken NY) said:

    The biker was expected to get a summons for failing to walk his bicycle through the pedestrian
    area, police said.

    Good. If you're going to ride on the sidewalk, you have to act like a pedestrian. (OTOH, if he was
    riding at pedestrian speeds, I retract my approval)

    Maybe the idiots who designed the path shouldn't force a cyclist to go through a pedestrian area. An
    accident was bound to happen. I would not be very difficult to move some barriers so that cyclists
    wouldn't have to go over a sidewalk to get on and off the bridge.
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