Posts tagged bicycle

• Where the Deer & the Antelope . . . Crash Into Unsuspecting Bikers!

  Pierce Egerton | October 12, 2011 8:52 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  I recently wrote about the dangers of deer on the highway. Last year, my friend Carson Leach wrote about being hit by a deer while he was bicycling. So when I came across a video of a mountain...

• Recall -- Bike Trailer Can Detach Causing Child to Crash

  Pierce Egerton | September 13, 2011 10:56 AM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  I'm not much of a bicyclist. But a lot of people in my neighborhood are. Every weekend I see a great many bicycles sporting trailers with one or more small child passengers. Today the U.S. Consumer...

• Boy recovering after hit and run

  Lawrence Egerton | June 20, 2011 8:43 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  It's sad when a little boy says he doesn't want to ride his bike anymore. But we can at least be thankful that a family doesn't have much, much more to be sad about in this hit-and-run case in...

• Police seek driver in hit-and-run fatality of cyclist

  Lawrence Egerton | May 05, 2011 11:30 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Edward Hedrick III died when he was struck in a hit-and-run accident after he had fallen from his bicycle on Sunday, May 1, 2011. The crash happened about 6 a.m. on Poindexter Drive near Lawndale...

• One Central NC City Plans to Increase New Bike Lanes

  Pierce Egerton | January 25, 2011 12:51 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Even before the results from an online survey conducted by the North Carolina Department of Transportation are released, Winston-Salem city officials plan to increase the miles of bike lanes in...

• Bicyclist Angalo struck by hit-and-run driver in Cary, NC

  Lawrence Egerton | September 06, 2010 5:55 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Gustavo Antonio Angalo was struck by a hit-and-run driver on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010, while riding his bicycle on Chapel Hill Road in Cary, North Carolina. A Morrisville, N.C., woman,...

• Crashes Involving Human-Powered Vehicles Abound

  Carson Leach | March 05, 2010 11:26 AM | 2 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  Though automobile drivers are often the culprits of collisions with cyclists, sometimes the cyclist makes a poor decision that can result in extreme bodily harm and even death. Glenn Thomas Brunck...

• One Roadway to Carry Them All

  Pierce Egerton | November 13, 2009 9:02 AM | 1 CommentGreensboro, NC Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  Bicyclists are perhaps the most vulnerable vehicles on the road. The accident rate for bicycles is lower than for other vehicles because they move slower. But, when there is an accident involving a...

• Yet Another Cyclist Fatality in North Carolina

  Pierce Egerton | November 12, 2009 8:48 AM | 1 CommentGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Last week I blogged about the necessity of looking out for two-wheeled vehicles following the shocking hit-and-run death of David Sherman in Greensboro. Now there’s yet another cyclist...

• Update: Arrest Made for Greensboro Cyclist's Hit-and-Run Death

  Pierce Egerton | November 04, 2009 9:21 AM | 1 CommentGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The Greensboro News & Record reports that an arrest has been made in a hit and run case that has shocked the Triad. Grayson Dawson, a 48 year old Eden woman, has been charged with felony hit and...