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HERE's how a bike accident story should be reported!
As a follow-up to my recent posts in which I argued that the media tends to
report bike/auto collisions in a manner that makes the cyclist appear to have been doing something wrong, I submit the following article from the same newspaper that published the last story I took issue with (See my comments below): ================================================== ================================================== ==== Cops: Bicyclist hit by dump truck in Bethpage dies 11:43 PM EDT, June 8, 2009 A bicyclist from Levittown died Monday after he was struck by a dump truck while cycling in Bethpage, police said. Joseph Masi, 22, of Celestial Lane, was riding a bicycle west on Central Avenue at 2:45 p.m., police said, when he was struck by a 1986 Ford dump truck at the intersection of Stewart Avenue. Masi was transported by the Bethpage Fire Department to the Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, where he was pronounced dead at 4 p.m., police said. Alfred Regateiro of Bethpage, the operator of the truck, received no summons, and Nassau detectives said there was no criminality involved in the accident.-- BILL MASON ================================================== ================================================== ===== Now THAT's fair reporting. "...after he was hit by a dump truck while bicycling..." is a lot different than "after he was hit while trying to cross in front of a dump truck." And "...when he was struck by a dump truck at the intersection of Stewart Avenue" is a different story than "when he attempted to cross Stewart Avenue while a dump truck was proceeding through the intersection." Good work, Newsday. Your reporters must have read my last editorial! |
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