[Macomb-Cycling] [S-Smith7 at wiu.edu: cyclist hit in Macomb this weekend]

[Maggie Rosol]

Jeff, 
 
Keep us posted of the facts, since I would gladly write a letter of concern to the Macomb Police Department.  
 
Maggie


--- On Mon, 6/30/08, Jeffrey R. Calhoun <jeff at outfitters.com> wrote:

From: Jeffrey R. Calhoun <jeff at outfitters.com>
Subject: [Macomb-Cycling] [S-Smith7 at wiu.edu: cyclist hit in Macomb this weekend]
To: cycling at macomb.com
Date: Monday, June 30, 2008, 10:25 AM

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This email came in this morning to the bike club website email address.
I thought you should all be aware of it.  Note - I responded to and thanked
Scott for the email and have placed a call in to the Macomb Police
Department to see if I can get more details.  I will try to keep you all
updated as I find more info.

Thanks,

-jeff

----- Forwarded message from Scott Smith <S-Smith7 at wiu.edu> -----

Delivery-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:04:05 -0500
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:02:58 -0500 (CDT)
From: Scott Smith <S-Smith7 at wiu.edu>
To: mabc at macomb.com

Normally I support our law enforcement personnel but the story I heard from the
cyclist who was hit makes me angry. Basically the cyclist was stopped at a 4 way
stop waiting her turn to proceed through the intersection when she was bump from
behind by a car. Thankfully the car was not traveling fast enough to injure the
cyclist but injury was mainly avoided because she was able to get off the bike
before it went under the vehicle. The bike was damaged (frame and wheels were
bent) and could not be ridden from the scene. What make me angry is that the
Macomb police did not want to write up the incident. The cyclist had to insist
upon the police doing their job. To make matters worse, MPD apologized to the
car driver for having to write him a ticket for hitting a bicyclist. As a
cyclist myself, this is not an attitude I want from local law enforcement.
There will be more and more cyclists around with gas prices rising and maybe
the officers need a session or two to become famil!
 iarized with the cycling world a bit. A TREK bike is not some trinket that can
be replace everyday. Giving prominent Macomb citizens a by just because it was a
bicyclist they hit is not right either. Just thought the bicyclists of Macomb
should be aware. 

----- End forwarded message -----

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Jeffrey R. Calhoun                     McDonough Telephone Cooperative
jeff at mdtc.net                          Infobahn Outfitters
jeff at outfitters.com                    P.O. Box 248
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