As some of you may be aware, a group of 5 Ottawa cyclists were the victims of a hit and run recently. I have had trouble finding out how the 5 are doing, thanks to media that aren't really into following up. The main reason that I wanted to know was that when I looked at my site stats quite a lot of people were landing on RANTWICK after doing google searches on variations of "5 Ottawa Cyclists Killed".
One of my big concerns about incidents like this, beyond the recovery of the victims, is that people will see it as confirmation that cycling is dangerous. Statistics do not bear that out, but many people assume that if 5 cyclists got run over, 5 cyclists got killed.
The most recent information I have been able to find thus far is that 1 cyclist has been discharged from hospital, while 4 remain in. I do not know the extent of their injuries or how things look for them, but I wanted to point out that none of the five were killed, and we can all continue to hope and pray for them.
Thanks to Les Faber of cyclemania.ca for giving me at least this small bit of information.
Keep riding all over the place,
R A N T W I C K 
1 comment:
This is a sad incident. We had a hit n run in Missoula at the end of June, and the debate it sparked centered completely on the motorist vs bike/ped thing. Lots of angery words were exchanged. My most recent post is about the stupidity of it all.
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