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What happened in the Dearborn bike lane yesterday?

Yesterday I was heading North on the Dearborn bike lane when I saw... something.  It was between Madison and Wacker (I don't remember which intersection exactly, and it wasn't at the corner, it was closer to the middle of the block), and there were emergency vehicles.  I exited the bike lane to take the street, because there were three emergency people crouched around someone laying in the lane.  Their bodies were blocking the face, but there was a white sheet over the person.  There was another person standing off to the side, who didn't look overly upset.  I saw one bike but there could have been another somewhere.

Any ideas?   The bike lane always feels so safe.  I am wondering if perhaps it was a pedestrian/cyclist collision?  And if so, I don't know which was which.

I hope everyone will be ok :(

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Permalink Reply by Rich S on October 31, 2013 at 9:33am

He says emergency crews were already there. 



h' $550 said:

Did some really witness the cab they were in hit a pedestrian, and instead of calling 911 all they did was send out a cryptic tweet? We're all doomed.

Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on October 31, 2013 at 12:13pm

Rich,  it seems the cab driver 'got away?

If you're sitting in a cab and it hits someone and drives off, I'd hope you'd feel some responsibility to at least note the cab number or other info and pass it along to authorities.
 
Rich S said:

He says emergency crews were already there. 



h' $550 said:

Did some really witness the cab they were in hit a pedestrian, and instead of calling 911 all they did was send out a cryptic tweet? We're all doomed.

Permalink Reply by Sarah Lewert on October 31, 2013 at 12:40pm

I rode past just as the fire truck got there. There was a woman laying in the bike lane and the person standing over said she hit her head on the pavement, but didn't say what happened. It initially, to me at least, looked like it was fairly minor, but because she hit her head, the fireman said "let's stabilize her head, bring over the collar"

Permalink Reply by Abby Crisostomo on October 31, 2013 at 1:03pm

Glad to hear that it looked "fairly minor." She was wrapped up so tight, I couldn't tell how bad it was. 

Permalink Reply by Rich S on October 31, 2013 at 2:12pm

If I witnessed that and were capable, I would probably chase after the cab driver and not just note the driver's information. This person was in a building and we have no idea if they were even in a position to see any identifying information. The tweet doesn't even specify that anything was witnessed.  Just that they have knowledge or guess that a cab was involved.  

The first tweet from someone who did witness that as a passenger and not call 911 is disgusting. The person whose reply I posted is the one referenced above. The person who did claim to witness something hasn't replied. 



h' $550 said:

Rich,  it seems the cab driver 'got away?

If you're sitting in a cab and it hits someone and drives off, I'd hope you'd feel some responsibility to at least note the cab number or other info and pass it along to authorities.
 

Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on October 31, 2013 at 2:47pm

Thanks Rich--definitely having a hard time parsing the info here... did not see that it was not the original person responding;  for some reason I can barely make out the lighter text in your image, and I have very little familiarity with Twitter.
 
Rich S said:

If I witnessed that and were capable, I would probably chase after the cab driver and not just note the driver's information. This person was in a building and we have no idea if they were even in a position to see any identifying information. The tweet doesn't even specify that anything was witnessed.  Just that they have knowledge or guess that a cab was involved.  

The first tweet from someone who did witness that as a passenger and not call 911 is disgusting. The person whose reply I posted is the one referenced above. The person who did claim to witness something hasn't replied. 



h' $550 said:

Rich,  it seems the cab driver 'got away?

If you're sitting in a cab and it hits someone and drives off, I'd hope you'd feel some responsibility to at least note the cab number or other info and pass it along to authorities.
 

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