{"id":2836,"date":"2019-11-23T17:23:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T01:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2019-11-23T17:23:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T01:23:34","slug":"brush-with-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2836","title":{"rendered":"Brush With Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was horrified to see that a motorist had<a href=\"https:\/\/bikinginla.com\/2019\/11\/22\/man-killed-riding-bike-on-manchester-blvd-in-inglewood-in-possible-right-hook-crash\/\"> hit and killed a cyclist<\/a> along my daily commuting route on Thursday morning.  I was further surprised when I realized that I had passed the scene soon enough after the collision that the police were still on the scene and had the street shut down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t see the accident, so all I can do is give my sympathies and a few impressions of that area.  I&#8217;m just going to post those here to contribute what I can to understanding and sympathy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1848\" height=\"955\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191121_0754212.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2838\"\/><figcaption>The Scene<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/C5L1B8gjnuhYoz7q9\"> intersection in question<\/a> is somewhat challenging, but far from the worst I see on a regular basis.  The intersection is treacherous  because of the fork and joining of Olive and Manchester.  There&#8217;s no good way for northbound bike traffic to continue up Manchester without northbound Olive traffic posing a risk.  I wasn&#8217;t there, so I have no idea if that contributed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the people I see on bikes in that area are riding simple cruiser kinds of bikes.  They look like folks who are making short trips from a bus stop to work or between some of the dispersed work locations &#8211; lots of car lots\/parking lots there.  That also means there are come car carriers and other commercial vehicles in the area regularly that can make it hard to see what&#8217;s happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, my sympathies to the families and friends.  Thanks to the indispensable <a href=\"https:\/\/bikinginla.com\/\">Biking In LA blog<\/a> for keeping us all aware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was horrified to see that a motorist had hit and killed a cyclist along my daily commuting route on Thursday morning. I was further surprised when I realized that I had passed the scene soon enough after the collision that the police were still on the scene and had the street shut down. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-stuff-i-saw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2839,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}