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By Michelle Mondo and Eva Ruth Moravec - Express-News, Web Posted: 10/02/2009 12:00 CDT
 A couple who survived a head-on collision two years ago were killed Thursday morning when a truck slammed into them as they rode a tandem bike in Northwest Bexar County, authorities said. Gregory and Alexandra Bruehler, parents of a 7-year-old girl, were struck from behind while riding their two-person bicycle on the shoulder of Texas 16, about three miles north of Helotes.
Alexandra Bruehler, 36, was pronounced dead at the scene. Her 42-year-old husband was airlifted to University Hospital, where he died about an hour later. Their daughter, Kylie, was not with them. Lizette Fiedler, a cousin, said the family is devastated.
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September 16, 2009
By Bob Mionske
A swift public relations campaign couldn’t save a successful Canadian lawyer from the fact that he ran down and killed a bike messenger.
He was Metis , one of the officially recognized aboriginal peoples of Canada. He was the oldest of eight children, and at the age of six he had been adopted by a foster family, together with his four-year old brother, because their mother struggled with an alcohol addiction. “We just grew up with poverty, with nothing,” his younger brother, now serving time for drug trafficking at Stony Mountain Prison, near Winnipeg, noted. “We probably had one of the hardest lives growing up. A lot of foster homes. Broken-down families.” As a young man, the older of the two adopted boys had gotten into trouble with the law over some bad checks, and had left his home town for a new life in Toronto, where he struggled with his own addiction to alcohol. For a time, he was living on the streets, homeless, but for the past several years the avid cyclist had worked as a bicycle courier.
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Rush Hour Middle Finger??? |
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From: http://austincycling.org/forum/
A Post by Stuart Dupuy
Today I was driving westbound on Southwest Parkway at 8:15 a.m. and I came up on 2 riders, in the lane and not on the shoulder, during heavy rush hour traffic. I was patiently following them and another car roared around them and honked. Incredibly, one of the cyclists flipped off the driver. I then pulled up next to the 2 riders when they moved to the shoulder, and asked the guy to please not flip off cars while riding on Southwest Parkway, since that is where I also ride (I live there), and I do not want to encourage hostility from cars to cyclists. He told me to f-ck off, called me an a-shole, and then flipped me off as well. I pulled over and we had a fairly heated conversation, which fortunately ended up without coming to blows, but really disturbed me prompting this post.
I am a long-time Austin cyclist, shaved legs and everything to prove it, and I just had a successful 10:44 finish in Leadville for my 3rd time last month. I have done probably 70 local bike races over the last 10 years, and love riding around town both on and off road.
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We must protect bicyclists before we face another tragedy |
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Posted Tuesday, Sep. 29, 2009
By BUD KENNEDY,
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Dozens of bicyclists will stand in silent vigil today in downtown Fort Worth. Their next destinations should be the Parker County Courthouse and the Texas Department of Transportation. They should demand more protection for bicyclists. For the second time, a bicyclist was killed Saturday in Willow Park near where the westbound Interstate 20 service road crests.
This time, witnesses say the bicyclist was riding carefully on the shoulder, not in the traffic lane where a Weatherford bicyclist was killed last year. Troopers are still investigating. But they say the driver, a former small-town girls’ basketball star from Early, was not using her phone. Larry McQuien, 55, a Lockheed Martin Aeronautics vice president and the brother-in-law of former Texas House Speaker Pete Laney, will be remembered today at a 3 p.m. service at First United Methodist Church of Fort Worth. Bicyclists from across the region will stand at attention before the service. "Larry was just the nicest person," said Lockheed Martin retiree Tom Clark, 64, of Benbrook.
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