Thankfully the guy that hit Hector Avalos Friday night will be charged in his death. I'm no lawyer but I would think that aggravated DUI is at the upper end of what you can get charged with for this kind of accident.
"A Riverside man was driving under the influence when he fatally struck a bicyclist on the West Side late Friday, according to police."
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So tragic.
How many DUI's do we figure this guy had before he killed someone?
Could be number of prior DUIs. Could be other "aggravating" factors:
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Davo said:
How many DUI's do we figure this guy had before he killed someone?
Would have been the easiest thing in the world for the driver to flee and leave the victim laying there but they didn't (very low likelihood of witnesses on this particular stretch of Ogden on a frigid night around midnight).
Short of any other evidence I'm going to go with this one:
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I don't know if the details will ever come out, but I would like to know what happened here.
The victim was presumably heading northeast on Ogden if the report that he was on his way home is true.
That would not have put him in this location, but if it had, the driver was presumably heading southwest towards Riverside (I'm stereotyping here, but assuming a 54 year old is not just starting his journey into the city to go clubbing at midnight.)
Even assuming the victim was in the middle lanes rather than the side boulevard, it seems like they would have been traveling opposite directions.
More detail at dnainfo
First of all, RIP, Hector. You didn't deserve to die just for riding your bike.
The accused, an executive at Stroger Hospital, would likely have been traveling southwest on Ogden, to get home to Riverside. And the deceased, whose mother said he worked at "El Hefe" restaurant at State & Hubbard, was headed home likely the same direction southwest down Ogden. So, was Hector rear-ended or sideswiped?
If Hector was mowed down from behind by a speeding drunk, this begins to sound like Bobby Cann's tragic death, repeated.
Snowy, the 2500 W block of Ogden Blvd is not on the way from State and Hubbard to Cermak and Wood.
If she says he was on the way home, I have no reason to question it, but it doesn't seem he was on his way home from work.
If he was heading toward home he would have been tracking east.
Older thread-- not sure why we needed a new one.
http://www.thechainlink.org/forum/topics/m-28-western-ogden-12-6-20...
That one was buried when I posted this am. Also focused on the DUI charge. not the arrest (I know that one was updated later).
h' 1.0 said:
Older thread-- not sure why we needed a new one.
http://www.thechainlink.org/forum/topics/m-28-western-ogden-12-6-20...
??? There are less than 10 discussions that have seen any activity at all this weekend.
jolondon30 said:
That one was buried when I posted this am.
h' 1.0 said:Older thread-- not sure why we needed a new one.
http://www.thechainlink.org/forum/topics/m-28-western-ogden-12-6-20...
Hector had recently relocated to Cermak and California. He was on his was home from work. Hector was a savvy and conscious human with street smarts. He would have never put his life in danger. hector was not drunk and behind the wheel of a speeding car. Hector could have been any one of us cyclist, pedestrian or even in another car. Let's focus on the real issue and stop questioning Hector. This coming Tuesday May 20th ,is the next court date.
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