File photo of Central Park bicyclists via flickr.
A bicyclist crashed into a woman crossing Central Park’s loop road at West 63rd street on Thursday afternoon, causing such severe injuries that sources told the New York Post that she has been declared brain dead.
The bicyclist, 31-year-old Jason Marshall, was traveling very fast and yelled at the woman to get out of the way, witnesses told the Post. Marshall, riding a $4,000 racing bike, was traveling in the car lane instead of the bike lane, a source told the Post. A reader who arrived shortly after the crash told us that there was a “significant amount of blood in the street.” It was not clear who had the light and whether Marshall will be charged.
CBS indicated that the cyclist will be cleared — “police called it all an accident, sources said” — while the Post says police were conferring with the DA’s office to see if he’s charged.
The woman, 59-year-old Jill Tarlov of Fairfield Connecticut, was taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Witness Phillip Fenton, 21, who’s visiting New York on a geography field trip from the UK’s University of Exeter, said Marshall was “speeding,” adding: “It didn’t look like he tried to stop.”
“He was yelling for her to get out of the way, but I don’t think she heard him and then they just collided,” Fenton said.
Fenton’s pal Tom Longman said Marshall was hunched over the brakeless “aerobars” attached to the handlebars of his high-performance, yellow-and-black ride.
Just last month, a runner died after a cyclist slammed into him in Central Park.
Totally insane. I am totally sick of running for my life when crossing the loop.
you can’t walk on Columbus
you can’t walk thru the park
whot next? can’t pee in the street after a night of heavy drinking??? for foks sake.
What is it going to take for the police to start ticketing cyclists who don’t obey the driving laws? Cars, pedestrians and cyclists work well in Europe because there are monetary consequences to not following the driving laws. Every day I yell at cyclists going up one-way streets and through red lights. They couldn’t care less.
What traffic law are you asserting this cyclist broke?
The speed limit in the car lane is 25 in the park. A bicyclist doing that can appear to be speeding to the casual observer. If he was doing that in the car lane, it is not speeding. There is also no law that says bicyclists can’t use suave streets (unless is posted they can’t). It makes more sense for the faster cyclists to use the car lane, particularly when the park is closed to public car traffic.
One could ask the question “what is it going to take for police to enforce the traffic laws on pedestrians”.
As much as I understand that there aren’t a lot of places in the city for cyclists to ride circuit at training speeds (without having the interruption of traffic/lights). Cyclists simply must understand that Central Park is, during peak hours, a problematic place to ride. You have to expect congestion and ride accordingly. If you want a clean ride, go early or go late.
Pedestrians have also got to learn to WAIT. Human beings are poor judges of speed, particularly that of bikes.
And things just got worse all around when mobile devices become involved.
I enter the park at 77th and cpw and its amazing how fast the cyclist are going down the hill around the loop. There needs to be more regulation on cycling speeds in the park. Many of these riders easily go 40-45mph on the downhil, and they can be hard to see at times. Just too many people around for that type of speed.
Wonder if we’ll ever knew who had the light. As a cyclist it’s ridiculous how many people I see cross the street without looking, especially at 63rd where bikers have a lot of speed coming down the hill. At the same time, however, I know 90% of bikers run through the lights.
Keep in mind that at 63rd at 4:30pm, there are going to be a lot of tourists who aren’t expecting that there might be racers bombing through a relatively ambling and friendly park. Any human with a working intellect would not be going so fast on a bicycle that they couldn’t avoid a collision with a person in a crosswalk under those conditions.
I don’t think you’d get a whole lot of argument from competitive cyclists that those are not the conditions to be trialing. Just like we talk about certain avenues allowing cars to pick up a lot of speed, the fact that cyclists *can* pick up a lot of speed from the hill certainly doesn’t mean that they should.
Are bicycles part of traffic or not? They have their own lanes and are supposed to obey the same traffic rules that the cars have (l.e.stopping at red lights, not running over pedestrians even if they’re in the street, etc). Yet when they actually hit someone or kill them, there seems to be little responsibility taken by them and little consequence for their actions. Speeding on a crowded street, whether you have the light or not, is reckless. If bicyclists want the “respect” that other vehicles get, they should be licensed, ticketed, and learn defensive driving.
The argument is not who is right or wrong, there is no war between bikes and peds, there is only common sense and safe behavior, even when someone else is going against the light.
Where’s our mayor and council people? Is 2 deaths not enough?
As some who drives a Vespa and walks a great deal in NYC, the number of pedestrians who pay little or no attention while crossing the street in mind boggling. Someone who is riding a bike (or scooter) is almost always acutely aware, as they will always lose a collision with a car/truck. Similarly, a pedestrian will almost always lose in a collision with a bike or any motorized vehicle, yet I see people on a daily basis ignoring lights and common sense. Sadly, but not surprisingly, its a miracle accidents dont occur more often.
I absolutely hate the spandex clad bikers who feel entitled to speed because their living out some idiot fantasy. NYC is too densely populated. Period.
Let’s get some bike speed bumps in the park. That will slow them down. It the cyclist want to race they should go the Henry Hudson; they will not have to worry about pedestrians.
Stop at traffic lights? Who are you kidding. These high performance racing bikers dont think they have to stop for anything! The police, with sometimes ticket them in the park when they set up traffic and speed traps. As for riding in the ” bike lane” that is not for them. These racing bikers are not just in Central park, but down in Riverside park and the Hudson River drive. It is all about speed. They dont care about where children might be playing or people might be walking. Will it take a law to stop them or do you think they could take it upon themselves to slow it down? Sad to say, I believe that most of the racers will need the law. They just dont see others rights as anything near has important as going stupidly fast on a bike.
Tragic. Though I find it odd how everyone gets enraged when an accident happens involving a bicycle, yet no one bats an eye when a car mows a person or an entire bus stop down and no one, nor the NYPD even bats an eye.
The cyclist was not in the wrong lane. The West Drive at 4:30 PM is car-free, so at that point all of the non-pedestrian lanes are for bikes and blades. Even if this weren’t during car-free hours on that stretch of the drive, there are reasons that a cyclist might merge into the auto lane for a bit — preparing to use one of the drive’s exit ramps, for example — though that wouldn’t typically apply at West 63rd.
It is likely that the cyclist was speeding only slightly or not at all, btw. Eyewitnesses to cycling crashes seem to think that a cyclist going at anything faster than beach-cruiser speed is somehow “speeding”, but this is unwarranted. The speed limit is 25 mph, and the road from 72nd to 63rd is only slightly downhill.
So what this really comes down to in terms of legal culpability is the status of the traffic light.
In terms of moral culpability, though, the cyclist is almost certainly in the wrong, regardless of the status of the light. A cyclist in the park needs to expect that people will encroach on the cycling space, ride heads-up, anticipate who might present a hazard, and ride at a speed where if something unexpected, they have a better option to avoid a collision than shouting “out of the way, out of the way! “
No, what this comes down to “in terms of legal culpability” (jeez, really? when a woman’s life is at stake?)is that the driver of a vehicle, whether a car, truck, or bike, is in control of their vehicle and can thus prevent a collision. What’s needed is judgment, prudence, control. Not ego, arrogance, and speed over safety.
Question if anyone knows…Are cyclists supposed to follow vehicle rules in the park even at times when cars are not permitted?
Yes, as well as the NYPD, and they’re constantly going through red lights in the park (as well as the staff of the Central Park Conservatory).
Yes. There is relaxed enforcement between around 10pm and 8am, but there is no official “permission” to break the overall traffic laws at any time.
There is no lane shift for car-free hours anymore. Cyclists illegally taking the lanes anyway is a whole different discussion.
There is _something_ of a change in lane usage when the drive is car-free. It’s not exactly a shift any more; it’s just that the outside lane (or two lanes in the southwest quadrant of the park) becomes a bike space.
I can’t find a clear online reference to this rule — online writeups of the rule date to back when there _was_ a narrower, split recreation lane, and a shift — but trust me, this is the rule. It’d be impossible to pass the fleets of European tourists riding 6 abreast on Bike and Roll Bikes without hellacious rule-breaking otherwise.
Yeah – I’m not disputing that they *use* the lane, but that wasn’t the way it was designed and not consistent with the law. My recollection is that in the locations currently with two car lanes, the inner lane is for pedicabs and horses and the outer remains the service lane for official vehicles (park, police, whatever). The theory was that pedestrians would be safer of cyclists would stick to their new, larger lane 24/7.
This presentation gets close to what you’re looking for: https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/2012-09-28-central-park-loop.pdf
I’m not faulting you for the mistake – it’s been terribly communicated outside of the period immediately after the change in 2012 and the police don’t care to enforce, but your understanding of the rules is not accurate.
This is a response to Matt – not sure where it’ll show up.
I think we’re both in good company being confused about this issue. It’s all terribly, terribly communicated to the public.
I was sort of involved in the process to realign the road to the current configuration, and it was clear at the time that it would be a problem. The Conservancy laid off the solution on DOT, and DOT (Josh Benson, I think) said that they wouldn’t put up clarifying signs because they wanted to reduce “sign clutter.” There’s no real point of appeal for users, so that’s the way it turned out.
You are right. I found a similar reference on centralparknyc.org .
Though oddly, I think I’m right too: in the pdf you linked to, take note of slide 7: use of the service lane by cyclists, temporarily, to pass slower bikes is specifically anticipated and accommodated by the design.
(Similarly, you’ve gotta imagine that merging across it to exit and leave the bike lane is similarly allowed.)
So a cyclist could notionally be stopped and ticketed for using the outside lane if there are no current, upcoming, or recently passed rec lane users taking up space in the main bike area. I don’t have a problem with this: it comports with keep-left-unless-passing, which is the best practice anyway. It would also make those annoying tourists citable, as well. 😉
So, the cyclist’s presence in an area actually intended for cycling only in limited circumstances may or may not have been kosher. It’s not automatically damning; those circumstances matter. Interesting.
Truly tragic.
My heat goes out to the family.
Why instead of screaming for her to get out of the way, did the biker NOT get out of the way or slow down……?
I am very pro bike riding, but clearly something needs to be done.
I ride my bike in the park all the time. A lot of bikers think they’re in the Tour de France. They are reckless, a danger to themselves an others. Tey go way too fast, they ignore red lights and weave through lines of pedestrians trying to cross the street. This accident was not only predictable, it was inevitable. I hope the cops crack down on the bikers.
EVERYONE is at fault.
This trend will continue until it is enforced that cyclists and pedestrians have to stop at **all** red lights. (If there is traffic or not. It’s not a yield.)
The other day I witnessed a cyclist on the loop that screamed “Get out of the way!!!” at a father and daughter (who looked to be about 4 years old) that walked on the cross-walk against a red light on their side. Then I saw the same cyclist zoom through a red light on his side. Cars obey the red lights so should everyone else.
The bicyclist “yelled a the woman to get out of the way” and will not be charged with any offense. Using the same logic I should be able to drive my car down any of our avenues, honking my horn, and mow down anyone in my way without any repercussions.
During the past 13 years I’ve never once seen a bicycle in Central Park stop for a light. Some of the legitimate crosswalks don’t even have a signal.
Somewhere along the line common sense and common courtesy became very uncommon, replaced instead by a very arrogant apathy.
I pray for the family and individuals involved but I would like to say that alot of times pedestrians not only in central park, prospect park or anywhere else do not look before crossing or walking through a bike lane. How many times have I almost hit a pedestrian when they pop out in between cars looking at their phones not even at the cross walk. Most of you who complain about cyclist are probably the same people Im talking about. Your not going to look both ways before you cross the st because you’re in a park that has serious cyclist? Its common sense.
There were multiple deaths last year alone from cyclists hitting pedestrians in Central Park. I have seen dozens of close calls. Some of those involved toddlers. Racing in the loop is not compatible with kids, seniors, tourists strolling around.
It is obvious. Period.
A cycle racing towards a crowded crosswalk in the loop is criminal even before the accident happens. Period.
It is also criminal that after so many deaths NYPD does not implement prevention and enforcement measures.
The total of racing cyclists frequenting the park are not more than a few hundred. Bring them to meetings and find a solution. Is it so difficult? Why does NYPD think that doing nothing for this is acceptable by us?……..
Exactly zero deaths in the whole city from bikers hitting pedestrians last year
Actually, I stand corrected – it looks like this guy was affiliated with CRCA according to his Strava page.
https://www.strava.com/athletes/3168825
(It looks like he set a number of quick times in the park yesterday. Oof.)
The fact that people are going for “quick times” in Central Park is the problem here. The park is a place for a leisurely ride, not to set records.
Yes.
The Bike Snob blog entry that Jeremy linked is actually very good, and I recommend reading it.
I’m also cheered that many (but not all) of the comments (from “lycra-clad” types) are supportive of a sensible approach.
If that really is the cyclist’s Strava page, it will be a wonderful piece of evidence for any criminal prosecution or civil suit.
Thanks Jeremy. Technical question: how can you tell that this “Jason M” in the Strava result is the Jason Marshall who hit this woman?
Avi
That’s according to Eben Weiss’s Bike Snob blog. https://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2014/09/sorry-we-have-important-things-to.html
He’s pretty well established and respected. There’s a confirmation of it in the comments there, although that person says that the quick times were from earlier that day.
Definitely the same guy. There’s a picture in the Daily News writeup that matches the profile picture on the account.
There’s more of those discussions than you probably realize. NY Cycle Club does a pretty good job of wrangling their own members at the request of NYPD and Central Park Conservancy.
Century Club Road Association seems less open to helping, I think partially due to the fact that they’ve got Tom Kempner as an active racer/member. He’s Chairman of the Central Park Conservancy, and falls deeply into the pro-racer, anti-pedestrian camp. That swagger means that they really don’t have to really care what we think.
All that being said, nobody *has* to join a club to ride fast in the Park, and I suspect that a lot of the worst actors are independent.
“There were multiple deaths last year alone from cyclists hitting pedestrians in Central Park”
Dad, deaths? do you have a source for this? I follow traffic violence across the city, and I think prior to the tragic death in August 2014, the last pedestrian’s death attributable to a cyclist in NYC was back in 2009 (a wrong-way rider).
Thoughts and prayers with the Tarlovs.
Central Park should be for leisurely rides, not spandex-clad races on high priced bikes at Tour de France speeds – if you want to ride fast, go across the GWB and up the Palisades like so many others do.
Similarly, just because the speed limit for cars in the park is 25 mph doesn’t mean it should be the same for bikers.
Why is a 25 mph speed limit okay for cars but not for bikes? Bikes and cars have about the same stopping distance at those speeds, and bikes pack a lot less energy into any potential collisions. (Kinetic energy = 1/2 mv^2, and the mass of a bike plus rider is much, much less than that of even, say, a Smart Car.)
I think as we’re talking about a public park and a path shared with peds, it’s terrible for both; the speed limit through there for all vehicles (autos, bikes, carriages, whatever) should be 10mph max.
We’re talking about a road that’s 50 feet wide where the crash occurred. It is “shared” in the sense that there are crosswalks at some pathway intersections (most of these, including at 63rd, have a traffic light), and a dedicated pedestrian area in the leftmost 14 feet of the roadway.
25 mph is not an appropriate speed for a pathway, I agree entirely with that.
Utterly heartbreaking tragedy. No one should lose a life in NYC this way.
This creature on the bike is always racing. I don’t think that his $4500 racing bike even has breaks. There should be a bike racing track for NYC.
Eddie its people like you who are a problem. You are assuming everyone wearing tights is speeding when a serious cyclist wearing a skirt can still speed. Cycling sport does not always include spandex wearing.
Sorry, language police. I’m not saying all those in spandex are bad, but 99% of those are riding too fast are usually in this type of attire. How my verbal mis-step makes me “part of the problem” is really beyond me though. My basic point stands – people need to slow down.
Really? A “brakeless” bike???? So tired of 30+ Yr old “adolescents” and their toys! Grow up, soul cycle or use a race track!
https://www.bicyclelaw.com/news/n.cfm/time-to-put-the-brakes-on-brakeless-bikes
Philadelphia
Guys the bike wasn’t brakeless. He was hunched over on his aero-bars which provide less wind resistance. His $5K racing bike has very good brakes, he just made a decision not to use them.
I saw this in the Post yesterday and it made me sick to my stomach. She was out shopping for her daughter’s birthday present. He should be culpable for simply yelling rather than performing whatever evasive maneuvers were within his power to try to avoid the collision, including laying his bike down. If my husband, who has a motorcycle in the city, were faced with the choice of hitting a pedestrian in a crosswalk or laying his bike down, he would lay the bike down. Period.
Yelling at someone is not an evasive maneuver. He put his safety and/or protecting his expensive racing bike above her life. But he was wearing a helmet.
Enough is enough. The park is not the Tour de France. Bikes are not as easy to see as a car, especially when the park is crowded. There needs to be an enforced speed limit for bikes, and it should be lower than the speed limit for cars.
Someone’s wife and mother is gone. It should never have happened.
I guess we’re going to need speed bumps in CP.
100%. That is the only way you’ll get safer streets in CP. Throw a few bumps around the park in areas where there is a lot of pedestrian traffic and that will solve the problem quicker than anything else.
As a cyclist I’m lumped into the “spandex” crowd but I ride safely and always air on the side of caution.
There is little doubt in my mind that while he is not perhaps legally culpable Mr. Marshall has blood on his hands.
I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I have seen bicycles stop at traffic lights in Central Park and I have spend hours a week there for decades. The only way to safely cross the park drives is to look multiple times as you cross them since the speeds of cyclists are so variable and for the swiftest, greater speed is the goal.
As cyclist lobbying groups gain ever more power in the management of traffic patterns I expect pedestrian injuries to increase.
I’d really, and sincerely, appreciate if one of the above defenders of bicyclists could explain how *any* vehicle can travel “brakeless”, even at the 25 mph speed pooh-poohed above, in an area where pedestrians are not just permitted but (like it or not) in significant numbers.
For heaven’s sake, this is a park, not a closed speedway. “Brakeless”?
Cato the bike had brakes but the rider chose not to use them. There are no manufacturers of high performance multi-gear bikes with no brakes. The only bikes that have no brakes these days are fixed gear bikes which this guys was certainly not riding.
Love riding around the city – hate riding in Central Park. I consider myself a casual rider but by no means slow. After a couple summers (2005/2006) enjoying the loop, I stopped riding when I was screamed at by the over-aggressive cyclists you’re all referring to (not all who are wearing lycra by the way).
There’s absolutely no excuse that this cyclist Jason Marshall can give for running down anyone.
Who cares if the light was green or red?
Who cares if she was or was not in a crosswalk?
Who cares if she looked or didn’t look?
The cyclist saw her and was so caught up in himself that it seems as though he didn’t think “hey, I could slow down, brake or swerve”.
I stick to the Hudson bike path although these types are there too. I love riding around and although these types can ruin it for me (and apparently many people), I try not to let it.
Actually, no. That was my point in my comment above: he *couldn’t* “think “hey, I could slow down, brake or swerve”” since his bike was BRAKELESS.
Even if the speed limit is 25 mph, how do you keep your super-dee-duper $4,000 racing bike from going *26* mph (especially coming down hill) if you have no brakes??
Does City law really permit riding a vehicle at these speeds without any means of slowing it down or stopping?
Cato, the article doesn’t explain it well but his bike does have brakes… he was just a jerk and didn’t use them. It’s described as brakeless because he was riding on aerobars, these handlebar modifications that triathletes and bike racers use. They leave your hands further from the brakes so you can’t stop or control the bike as quickly. Responsible cycle groups would not take a bike with aerobars on a group ride, out of safety concerns, and it’s really unjustifiable to be riding with aerobars, at top speed, in late afternoon in the crowded south end of the park. It’s treacherous to everyone.
“There should be a bike racing track for NYC”
I bike racing track is the only solution to prevent this from happening again. You then force anyone who wants to bike faster than 10mph (the equivalent of 6 minute miles for runners) to go to the track.
Or create a few overpasses so people can cross the roadway w/o getting in anyones way.
Or crossing guards. By the WTC they have crossing guards complete with chains to hold back pedestrians from crossing without the green.
But I’d settle for a ban on anyone wearing spandex. Not your fault but CP’s roadways with its many crosswalks is no place for real biking especially with runners, pedestrians, and casual bikers going in BOTH directions, pedicabs, horses and cars.
A ban on anyone wearing spandex? That’s idiotic. I don’t speed, but I wear spandex padded biking shorts because they are much more comfortable when I’m doing 3 or 4 loops of the park. I also wear technical clothes when I run because they wick away sweat and help prevent chafing. Wearing the correct gear for your activity does not make you a menace or a villain. And, by the way, I’ve seen plenty of people wearing street clothes on bikes who were at least as much of a menace as anyone in spandex — they’re generally the ones going the wrong way in the pedestrian lane.
I think it’s time that city governance needs to take these “accidents” seriously. No biker should be allowed to use his bike as a death sentance – planned or accidental. Just as an automobile driver MUST be in control of his machine, so must a biker! It is not sufficient to shout at a pedestrian to move over or out of whose(?) way.
Absolutely not a surprise that such a tragedy occurred. By cyclists in the park and on the street act as if laws don’t apply to them and that pedestrians are obstacles to be overcome. Pedestrians have no rights. After all they impede the speed.
Why on earth are bicyclists allowed to go faster than cars would be allowed to? Why are they continuously permitted to bully pedestrians?
There is an al,out religious belief that those who cycle are better, more important and should be catered to. That is why we now have dangerous bike lanes cluttering up streets and pedestrians are forced not only to fear autos but bikes too.
My sympathies go to the family of the victim of what can only be called vehicular homicide. The cyclist should be charged.
Bike racers–in spandex or otherwise–should not be allowed to ride/train/race at speed in Central Park. Period. I am a recreational bicyclist and my children and I have nearly been taken out by racers countless times. Worse, one Saturday morning my 12-year old didn’t manage to “STAY STRAIGHT!” as commanded by the racing pack behind him…. he got nervous, wobbled, and veered towards the pack and causing a racer to fall. And then, the racer had the nerve to read us the riot act! On weekends, when the park is closed to cars, bike racers zoom down the roads at the speed of a car, but with less courtesy and no rules. On weekends let racers ride in car lanes with traffic and obey traffic signs. Otherwise, get them out of the park. Period.
Between the deaths and fatal as well as nonfatal accidents on West End Avenue and 96th Street, and elsewhere, over the past few months, and the two fatal — I consider “brain dead” fatal — bicycle accidents, for the first time in 45 years I’m thinking I’ve maybe had enough of Manhattan — and of the West Side. Have any of these drivers or cyclists been charged?
To me there’s an easy solution: the City must require any bike owner who wants to ride on a NYC street or bike lane to get a bike license and license plate. Thousands of small towns across the country require this — why not NYC?! The City would get revenue (from each license) and it would not only make bike riders accountable, EVERYONE would know, too, that they were. Want to drive like a rude lunatic? That’s okay — I’ve got your number and can report you and the City can write a ticket.
It’s also totally reasonable: why shouldn’t any vehicle that wants to ride on our city streets have a license? We require them of cars, trucks, pedicabs, horse carriages, and motorcycles. Why not bikes?
I believe that the combination of the Bloomberg administration’s audacious bike program (Citibikes, bike lanes, etc.) combined with the narcissism of the millennial generation which is the most frequent bike rider, makes for a perfect storm. Right now there are no rules. Enforcement is weak and inconsistent. And to this callow generation, it’s my-way-no-one-else-matters, with bikes and everything else. The rest of us will continue to have hell to pay until the City deals with this dangerous public safety crisis.
A lot of comments that 25mph on a bike isn’t that fast. I disagree it is fast whether on a bike or in a vehicle. How about banning bikes when cats are band or limiting bike speeds to 10mph when cars aren’t allowed. There is a reason people why cars are banned from the park at most hours.
The more I read about this J*rk , the more outraged I become. He should be criminally charged.
On another note, why is Bruce silent on tragedies that afflict our community and only comments when he can blame landlords and successful working people……
Please keep in mind that there are a number of older people that want to cross the bike/car lanes and do not move as fast as a cyclist or driver would like. We are forced to either forego crossing or do a stop and go dance to get to the other side. What about the one’s with canes or walkers? They are at the mercy of the understanding or the “I don’t give a damn” cyclist/driver. The park and the cross walks are for all and each must respect the other. Also keep in mind that many are deaf or hard-of-hearing and may not hear a cyclist holler “get out of the way”. The pedestrian should always be aware of their safety and so should the driver of a moving vehicle, for others and themselves. It breaks down to a mutual respect situation
This is a tragedy and Ms. Tarlov and her family deserve our sympathy, respect, and support.
But what does the cost of the bike have to do with anything else. When I get cut off or almost killed by a motor vehicle ignoring a red light or speeding in my residential neighborhood which is full of young children and elderly people, nobody ever mentions what the car is worth.
Bicyclists and motorists need to slow down and learn how to put the safety of others ahead of whatever it is they’re rushing to get to!
This cyclist HAS to go to jail. Yelling “get out of the way” as you barrel down a crowded pedestrian park strip at 60 mph b/c you think you’re Lance Armstrong is not a license to kill or maim.
According to this story there were no breaks on this high speed bicycle. It’incredible that there is no law or regulation requiring brakes on all bicycles in use in the city.
There were no brake levers on the aero handlebar extensions. There were brakes on the bike – just not near his hands. Aero bars keep your head low and looking towards the ground instead of up and looking forward- not the smartest things to use them in a crowded place like Central Park in the afternoon.
Ms. Tarlov had died.
RIP
What happend to cyclists haveing equl rights? He was traveling at high speeds, in the car lane, with No Brakes! That goes beyond neglegence, its just plain stupid and neglegent! He should be held accountable for his actions period! This shouldn’t be any diffrent then him being in a car, speeding, knowing there are no brakes yelling out the window for people to get out of his way. Idiot!