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Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on July 30, 2014 at 8:39am

wow, scary and disturbing. I wonder if they will interview the truck that did see the whole thing and is the only witness. 

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Permalink Reply by Sarah D. on July 30, 2014 at 8:40am

I am sure they will, Julie. It's totally blown up and is now going to rely heavily on witness accounts. The mayor is already now blaming the alleged victim:

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/article_81ac765...

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Permalink Reply by Rich S on July 30, 2014 at 8:42am

From the victim's facebook page although his attorney should have advised him to not post on facebook!

Randy Murdick

• Fenton, Missouri

 · 14 hrs · Murphy, MO · 

This is going to be a long post.... Sorry

I will give a brief description of events, 
Coming down old Gravois road (big hill) a red Mercedes convert alb with the top down comes up next to me screaming get off my roads, get off my roads. After what seemed like ten seconds of this he whips his car to the right hitting me on the left side of my body knocking the bike out from under me. My left arm hooked the back of the passenger door and he gunned it flinging me off onto the road. This all happened around 20mph. After I got up the car behind him that thankfully did not run me over asked if I was ok, I said would you please chase him and get his plate number. What I didn't know was a truck coming the other direction saw the entire thing and did a u-turn and chased him down. I will skip the other details for now. Long story short that did a vehicle accident report and let him go???? WTF!!!! 
I went up to the police station with my attorney after thinking about what just happened. Something just didn't seem right. Five cop cars.... No information for me and they let him go. 
I will preface the next part by saying that the Sunset Hills police promise to do everything by the book.

PLEASE READ this part.
THE MAYOR of Sunset hills told me to get off HIS roads then ran me over. The friggen mayor!
His name is Mark E. Furrer
Please feel free to pass this around or to call Sunset Hills to state your feelings

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Permalink Reply by Rich S on July 30, 2014 at 8:52am

Only because it blew up on social media will it receive any investigation. 

This is the scariest statement in the article "No arrests were made and the incident remains under investigation, the police chief said. The investigation will be treated like any other despite the mayor's involvement, LaGrand said."  I interpret that to mean a slap on the wrist for the driver since it was a cyclist that was hit.  

Sarah D. said:

I am sure they will, Julie. It's totally blown up and is now going to rely heavily on witness accounts. The mayor is already now blaming the alleged victim:

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/article_81ac765...

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Permalink Reply by Sarah D. on July 30, 2014 at 8:56am

I know - that's what's being reposted everywhere. What attorney would not give that advice? Ugh. We're so lucky to have great bicycle advocate attorneys in Chicago.

Rich S said:

From the victim's facebook page although his attorney should have advised him to not post on facebook!

Randy Murdick

• Fenton, Missouri

 · 14 hrs · Murphy, MO · 

This is going to be a long post.... Sorry

I will give a brief description of events, 
Coming down old Gravois road (big hill) a red Mercedes convert alb with the top down comes up next to me screaming get off my roads, get off my roads. After what seemed like ten seconds of this he whips his car to the right hitting me on the left side of my body knocking the bike out from under me. My left arm hooked the back of the passenger door and he gunned it flinging me off onto the road. This all happened around 20mph. After I got up the car behind him that thankfully did not run me over asked if I was ok, I said would you please chase him and get his plate number. What I didn't know was a truck coming the other direction saw the entire thing and did a u-turn and chased him down. I will skip the other details for now. Long story short that did a vehicle accident report and let him go???? WTF!!!! 
I went up to the police station with my attorney after thinking about what just happened. Something just didn't seem right. Five cop cars.... No information for me and they let him go. 
I will preface the next part by saying that the Sunset Hills police promise to do everything by the book.

PLEASE READ this part.
THE MAYOR of Sunset hills told me to get off HIS roads then ran me over. The friggen mayor!
His name is Mark E. Furrer
Please feel free to pass this around or to call Sunset Hills to state your feelings

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