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Great Cycling Advocate Killed by repeat Drunk Driver
http://kenkifer.com/bikepages/traffic/index.htm for those interested "mrbubl" wrote in message ink.net... In a certain sad irony he has a great article on bicycle safety.....perhaps they can introduce it in the defendant's murder trial... "Robert Haston" wrote in message hlink.net... I don't know how many of you who may have come across Ken Kifer's work on the Internet. We had written each other and I had hoped to get by with my recumbent so he could ride it. Just another lesson that life is short, live it up. His web site is still up. http://kenkifer.com/ It is a wealth of insightful writings about cycling. It will probably go away soon. Its sad reading the "contact me" link, knowing he is no longer there. I saved the site for myself with a shareware program called offline explorer pro. Below is the story from the Scottsboro, AL Sentinel. Rodgers charged with murder in cyclist death By Mazie Aldrich The Daily Sentinel Published September 17, 2003 Jimmy D. Rodgers, 29, of Scottsboro has been charged with murder in the traffic-related death of cyclist Kenneth P. Kifer, 57, of Scottsboro. According to a report filed in the Circuit Clerk's office by Alabama Trooper Terry Thomas, Kifer was riding a bicycle in the north bound lane of County Road 21, three miles north of Scottsboro in the Pikeville area. He was struck by the 1986 Chevrolet S-10 pick up driven by Rodgers who was traveling south on the same road. The report states that Rodgers was driving at a high rate of speed, under the influence of drugs and alcohol. Kifer was taken to Huntsville Hospital where he died a short time later. Rodgers was arrested at the scene and charged with first-degree assault and driving under the influence. Those charges were upgraded to murder Tuesday morning. According to the Scottsboro Police Department Rodgers was released from the city jail just four hours before the Saturday night accident. He had been arrested Friday for DUI and violation of the open container law. Kifer was known in the area and throughout the country as a world class athlete, cyclist and writer who chose to live the life of a naturalist. A clerical error in the original report resulted in Kifer being identified as Ken Kiefer. PS One opinion I have which gets stronger every day is our efforts to make our roads "safer" by making them wide and smooth, with large radius turns (unlike Europe) has come back to haunt us by allowing ever greater levels of incompetence, neglect, speeding, and incapacitation behind the wheel. If I were King, I'd have sharp turns installed everywhere, so idiots, blind octogenarians and drunks would wind up in ditches, not killing innocent people. |
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Great Cycling Advocate Killed by repeat Drunk Driver
A drunk driver is one of my worst fears in driving (much less cycling), as
there really isn't anything you can do about it. My granparents were killed by a drunk driver. No matter how alert, and safe you are, if someone swerves across the road at you, there isn't much time to react. I'm sure Ken's safe riding habits saved him many times in his life. "mrbubl" wrote in message ink.net... http://kenkifer.com/bikepages/traffic/index.htm for those interested "mrbubl" wrote in message ink.net... In a certain sad irony he has a great article on bicycle safety.....perhaps they can introduce it in the defendant's murder trial... "Robert Haston" wrote in message hlink.net... I don't know how many of you who may have come across Ken Kifer's work on the Internet. We had written each other and I had hoped to get by with my recumbent so he could ride it. Just another lesson that life is short, live it up. His web site is still up. http://kenkifer.com/ It is a wealth of insightful writings about cycling. It will probably go away soon. Its sad reading the "contact me" link, knowing he is no longer there. I saved the site for myself with a shareware program called offline explorer pro. Below is the story from the Scottsboro, AL Sentinel. Rodgers charged with murder in cyclist death By Mazie Aldrich The Daily Sentinel Published September 17, 2003 Jimmy D. Rodgers, 29, of Scottsboro has been charged with murder in the traffic-related death of cyclist Kenneth P. Kifer, 57, of Scottsboro. According to a report filed in the Circuit Clerk's office by Alabama Trooper Terry Thomas, Kifer was riding a bicycle in the north bound lane of County Road 21, three miles north of Scottsboro in the Pikeville area. He was struck by the 1986 Chevrolet S-10 pick up driven by Rodgers who was traveling south on the same road. The report states that Rodgers was driving at a high rate of speed, under the influence of drugs and alcohol. Kifer was taken to Huntsville Hospital where he died a short time later. Rodgers was arrested at the scene and charged with first-degree assault and driving under the influence. Those charges were upgraded to murder Tuesday morning. According to the Scottsboro Police Department Rodgers was released from the city jail just four hours before the Saturday night accident. He had been arrested Friday for DUI and violation of the open container law. Kifer was known in the area and throughout the country as a world class athlete, cyclist and writer who chose to live the life of a naturalist. A clerical error in the original report resulted in Kifer being identified as Ken Kiefer. PS One opinion I have which gets stronger every day is our efforts to make our roads "safer" by making them wide and smooth, with large radius turns (unlike Europe) has come back to haunt us by allowing ever greater levels of incompetence, neglect, speeding, and incapacitation behind the wheel. If I were King, I'd have sharp turns installed everywhere, so idiots, blind octogenarians and drunks would wind up in ditches, not killing innocent people. |
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Great Cycling Advocate Killed by repeat Drunk Driver
iLiad wrote:
A drunk driver is one of my worst fears in driving (much less cycling), as there really isn't anything you can do about it. My granparents were killed by a drunk driver. No matter how alert, and safe you are, if someone swerves across the road at you, there isn't much time to react. So if a sober person were to kill you, you'd die happy? -- Steven O'Neill www.bridgetolls.org |
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Great Cycling Advocate Killed by repeat Drunk Driver
Kevan Smith /\/\ wrote:
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 01:51:22 +0000 (UTC), (Steven M. O'Neill) from The process of turning a pinto bean into a kidney wrote: So if a sober person were to kill you, you'd die happy? If a sober supermodel were making love to me and I had a sudden stroke .... .... she wouldn't get paid. Mark Hickey Habanero Cycles http://www.habcycles.com Home of the $695 ti frame |
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Great Cycling Advocate Killed by repeat Drunk Driver
Yes, but only if I was riding drunk.
Steven M. O'Neill wrote: So if a sober person were to kill you, you'd die happy? |
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Great Cycling Advocate Killed by repeat Drunk Driver
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:03:54 GMT, Mark Hickey wrote:
Kevan Smith /\/\ wrote: If a sober supermodel were making love to me and I had a sudden stroke ... she wouldn't get paid. ....and Kevan would spend eternity with blueballs. Mark Hickey Habanero Cycles http://www.habcycles.com Home of the $695 ti frame -- Rick Onanian |
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Great Cycling Advocate Killed by repeat Drunk Driver
And you drew this conclusion how?
"Steven M. O'Neill" wrote in message ... iLiad wrote: A drunk driver is one of my worst fears in driving (much less cycling), as there really isn't anything you can do about it. My granparents were killed by a drunk driver. No matter how alert, and safe you are, if someone swerves across the road at you, there isn't much time to react. So if a sober person were to kill you, you'd die happy? -- Steven O'Neill www.bridgetolls.org |
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Great Cycling Advocate Killed by repeat Drunk Driver
iLiad wrote:
"Steven M. O'Neill" wrote in message ... iLiad wrote: A drunk driver is one of my worst fears in driving (much less cycling), as there really isn't anything you can do about it. My granparents were killed by a drunk driver. No matter how alert, and safe you are, if someone swerves across the road at you, there isn't much time to react. So if a sober person were to kill you, you'd die happy? And you drew this conclusion how? I didn't, really. Just trying to point out that it's silly to worry most about something that isn't the most common cause. -- Steven O'Neill www.bridgetolls.org |
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Great Cycling Advocate Killed by repeat Drunk Driver
Well, not to beat this to death Steven, but, I didn't say I worried. I said
I feared. I said my worst fears in driving. And, more deaths are caused on the roads in the US by drugs and alcohol use then any other: The number of people killed in alcohol-related crashes has risen slightly since 1999 ending years of steady decline. Last year, 17,448 were killed, accounting for 41 percent of all U.S. traffic deaths. http://www.ghsa.org/html/media/mediacoverage/121802.htm So, if you are going to die in a traffic related incident, you have a 41 percent chance it will be by a drunk. This statistic doesn't include drug related, which puts it over 50 percent by those impaired by drugs or alcohol So, if I were to worry, I guess it would have been by something that was the most common cause of death. Now, as far as bicycling goes, I don't worry at all. It's too damn fun to be worrying. "Steven M. O'Neill" wrote in message ... iLiad wrote: "Steven M. O'Neill" wrote in message ... iLiad wrote: A drunk driver is one of my worst fears in driving (much less cycling), as there really isn't anything you can do about it. My granparents were killed by a drunk driver. No matter how alert, and safe you are, if someone swerves across the road at you, there isn't much time to react. So if a sober person were to kill you, you'd die happy? And you drew this conclusion how? I didn't, really. Just trying to point out that it's silly to worry most about something that isn't the most common cause. -- Steven O'Neill www.bridgetolls.org |
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Great Cycling Advocate Killed by repeat Drunk Driver
It is an international statistic that your safest bet in cycling is to cycle
on minor roads. I do. You are 6 times less like to be killed on a minor road, as on a major one. |
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