Collision on Beauregard St near Mark Center

[dasgeh]

The inaction by the police has me fuming. But you have video! That could be very powerful. I would take to twitter, and ask very publicly why the PD wouldn’t take a report when a car hit a person riding a bike. Tag whatever political leaders are on twitter.

LMK, if you want help or retweets.

[bobco85]

@dasgeh 144323 wrote:

The inaction by the police has me fuming. But you have video! That could be very powerful. I would take to twitter, and ask very publicly why the PD wouldn’t take a report when a car hit a person riding a bike. Tag whatever political leaders are on twitter.

LMK, if you want help or retweets.

I was disappointed that no record would be kept of the incident unless I had called police to take a statement at the scene. I linked to the video on Twitter, but if you know the right people to send it to, please do so. My Twitter handle is (not surprising) @bobco85 Thank you.

[dasgeh]

@bobco85 144327 wrote:

I was disappointed that no record would be kept of the incident unless I had called police to take a statement at the scene. I linked to the video on Twitter, but if you know the right people to send it to, please do so. My Twitter handle is (not surprising) @bobco85 Thank you.

I can’t find the tweet… Could you link to it? Thanks!

[CaseyKane50]

@bobco85 144327 wrote:

I was disappointed that no record would be kept of the incident unless I had called police to take a statement at the scene. I linked to the video on Twitter, but if you know the right people to send it to, please do so. My Twitter handle is (not surprising) @bobco85 Thank you.

Posted on the BPAC Facebook page. BPAC will also raise this with our APD police representative.

[AlexandriaBiker]

Bob, I’d like to see your video on Twitter and sent directly to @alexandriaPD. The 3 foot law was broken and they refused to do anything about it again. The culture has to change.

[DismalScientist]

Hate to be the contrarian around here,:rolleyes: but do you really want the police to chase down every cyclist that blows through a red based on someone’s video evidence that is sent to the police?

[Judd]

@DismalScientist 144339 wrote:

Hate to be the contrarian around here,:rolleyes: but do you really want the police to chase down every cyclist that blows through a red based on someone’s video evidence that is sent to the police?

No. Just like I don’t want the police to track me down when a car with a dash cam catches me running a stop sign at Hains Point. If we were talking near miss, I’d chalk it up to a near miss, but Bob was hit by a car. Thankfully no medical issue has popped up as a result but what if something did? I’ve had two points in my life where I wrecked, once in a motorcycle and once on my bike where I initially thought I was fine only to later find out a bone was broken.

I think it’s more of a threshold issue. Hit by car rises to police should take a report. People running stop signs rises to the level of police should placate the complainer with promises of more enforcement.

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[bobco85]

Quick update: I was reminded by some fellow WABA folks last night that I should submit the collision to WABA’s crash tracker (I totally forgot about it!). It has now been submitted into their system.

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