Over at seattlepi.com, Scott Sunde reports that a marked patrol car hit a cyclist today at 8:43 a.m. on 12th Avenue South and South Jackson Street. The female rider’s leg may have been broken in the collision.
Cop Car Hits Cyclist
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Obviously we need to replace cops in cars with more cops on bikes.
cha-ching!
Five’ll get you ten the cyclist blew through a red light or a stop sign.
Thank god it wasn’t the cop that got hurt. We’d be forced to endure another pro-cop parade downtown.
She just have kicked a shoe at him.
Well, the PI comments are already blaming the cyclist. Let’s hope cooler heads prevail over here at Slog.
Sigh. Never mind.
Are there no witnesses or better yet youtube videos of the incident?
I used to live in fear of hitting Seattle cyclists as they blew stop signs, turned without signaling, suddenly jumped the curb off the sidewalk into the road, etc. Regardless of how irresponsible their behavior is, it’s incumbent on car drivers to be more careful…
That is a big intersection with an annoyingly long light to have to wait for. My money is on the cyclist running the light.
She was probably being chased by a pitbull.
Call me age-ist, but I’m doubting that a 59-year-old woman “blew through” the intersection at 12th and Jackson.
It doesn’t really matter if the cyclist was at fault, the cop is gonna say she was…
Drove past this morning, must have been a bit afterward. Probably five or six squad cars in the area, and west bound traffic stopped on Jackson. It looked the accident wasn’t at the intersection, but just West of it, at the first or second driveway. That’s where the mangled bike was. Didn’t see the woman, so can’t report anything about her condition.
The whole intersection is a mess for cars, peds, and bikes. I’d put good money that the infrastructure is whats really to blame.
I always wonder what the psychology is behind the “blame the person w/ less power” attitude. It could be they have a inner fascist streak inside, where they secretly worship those in positions of power. Power = morally good for them.
I’d bet on the cop being the one that blew through the light. I ride to work damned early in the morning and the cops congregate right around King Street Station. The only people on the road at that time are me and five coworkers, but there have been several times where I’ve had the green and the cop ran the light without even looking.
Sounds like what happened on Aurora Ave. North several years ago, when a cop killed a cyclist running a red light.
@4. Go to hell. Wouldnt want poor you to have to be inconvenienced by a parade.