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Another cyclist fatality

Saw this one on the Wisconsin Bike Fed blog:

http://wisconsinbikefed.org/2016/06/22/driver-hits-kills-co-worker-...

Unlike other incidents I've seen reported, this one appears to involve people who likely knew each other. The two were coworkers, both working for WS Packaging Solutions in Algoma, WI.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on August 11, 2016 at 6:43pm
Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on August 14, 2016 at 7:44am

A later report identified the woman in the Ontwa Township crash as Mimi Piane.

Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on August 14, 2016 at 7:48am
Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on August 15, 2016 at 4:34pm
Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on August 16, 2016 at 2:20pm

A later report identified the victim as Ralph Myron Roane.

Permalink Reply by Jeremy Bloyd-Peshkin on August 16, 2016 at 10:20am

This morning, Milwaukee was shut down from Chicago up to the highway. I was told by the CPD officer that was (very politely) re-directing bike traffic that there had been a bad crash involving a flatbed truck and a bike. I haven't heard anything further, but it doesn't sound good.

Be safe out there.

Permalink Reply by John Durham on August 16, 2016 at 10:45am

There was a thread on the r/chicago subreddit earlier that said it was a fatality.  The OP was apparently a witness and has since deleted the post saying that it will be on the news later.

(and that they were going to fix themselves a drink... Seemed pretty shaken up.)

Edit to add: http://abc7chicago.com/news/bicyclist-21-killed-in-west-town-crash/...

Permalink Reply by Yasmeen on August 16, 2016 at 10:51am

Sorry to hear this happened. Very sad.
I also found this but it looks like the details are all wrong:
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2016/08/16/bicyclist-hit-by-semi-in-nob...

Permalink Reply by Jeremy Bloyd-Peshkin on August 16, 2016 at 10:53am
Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on August 16, 2016 at 10:54am

Permalink Reply by Yasmeen on August 16, 2016 at 11:11am

https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20160816/west-town/cyclist-killed-b...

RIVER WEST — A 21-year-old woman who was riding her bike was hit by a semi-truck and killed Tuesday morning, police said.

The incident occurred around 8:15 a.m. in the 800 block of North Milwaukee Avenue, just north of Racine Street and a few feet south of the Kennedy Expressway overpass, a witness said.

Officer Laura Amezaga, a Chicago Police spokeswoman, said the cyclist was "struck by semi" and taken to Northwestern Hospital where she was pronounced dead.

According to the witness, the truck had been going southbound on Milwaukee Avenue toward Downtown and that he saw the woman under the truck bed and her white road bike stuck under the cab of truck.

"She was in really bad shape and I stood close to her and did not want to move her in case anything was broken. I kept saying hold on, they are coming, they are coming," he said.

He added, "She looked like a real cyclist. She had a nice messenger bag that was under her and I was hoping she had a laptop or something in it that would absorb some of the blow."

Permalink Reply by Julian Baker on August 16, 2016 at 11:50am

I really hope this wasn't because of that diversion for the film crew that was on Milwaukee this morning. Police were re-directing the mass of cyclist down to Chicago Ave this morning. I finally got through it to find a film crew camped out on the street. 

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