2008-06-26 Columns

Eh Brah

June 26, 2008

I sure hope you got where you were going. Needless to say I did not get where I was going. Didn't you realize that a human being was riding the bicycle that you whizzed around in the right turn lane going north on S. Kihei Rd. at Lipoa about 12:30 that day? It is illegal to pass any vehicle that you are in the same lane with at the time of passing. There is no bike lane at that part of the road and I had every right to be using that lane. You passed me so close I touched your car, veered right and fell left. My head hit the pavement so hard that my head was cut open! I had to be taken on a backboard in an ambulance to the hospital in Wailuku. I got several stitches, a nasty headache and missed 3 days of work plus got a hefty hospital and ambulance bill. All because you just had to turn right at that light before it turned red.

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happens all the time
June 27, 2008 | 12:15 PM

Same thing happened to me in California. A driver ran me off the road on my bike while running a stop sign to make a right turn. She never once looked in my direction.

Bill
We need safe bike lanes
June 27, 2008 | 02:16 PM

With the price of gas climbing, we need safe bike lanes along all our main routes.

Karen Chun
dittos
July 01, 2008 | 08:26 AM

I almost got it in the crosswalk by the Queen K... mall in Kahului a few years ago--and I was walking my bicycle across! A woman making a right turn didn't have an intent of slowing up at the red light. She laid rubber, stopping a few feet from me, and then she yelled at me. What can you do?

Jim M.
Crazy
July 01, 2008 | 12:45 PM

I would never ride a bike on the streets anywhere on Maui. People don't care about bike riders. You're nuts if you ride a bike.

Pedal Pusher

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