Tragedy Strikes: Deaths, injuries reported after vehicle hits bicyclists in Michigan

Details are very sketchy but eight cyclists, including children, were hit by a motorist in Kalamazoo County.. Not clear yet how many are dead/injured.

My prayers go out to the victims and their families.

"Authorities say a vehicle slammed into a group of at least eight bicyclists in western Michigan, leaving an unknown number of people dead and others injured."

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Permalink Reply by Yasmeen on June 7, 2016 at 3:51pm

:-( I can't believe what I'm reading. My thoughts go out to the cycling community in Kalamazoo.

A pickup truck plowed into a group of bicyclists including children along a western Michigan road, killing at least five people with a weekly riding group, according to local reports.

Cops apprehended a driver fleeing the crash site near Cooper Township about three miles north of Kalamazoo Tuesday evening.

A witness, who narrowly missed being struck, saw the driver hit least eight bicyclists with the bike club, WOOD-TV reported.

Full article: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/bicyclists-killed-michigan...

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Permalink Reply by Paul Lazzaro on June 7, 2016 at 4:46pm

It's very simple. A criminal must be prosecuted.

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Permalink Reply by Jim Reho on June 8, 2016 at 2:31am

That is absolutely horrendous. Just the worst. I love to ride around in Michigan. This scares the crap out of me. Those poor cyclists were doing nothing other than existing when some monster eradicated them. I had better not hear anyone refer to this as an "accident."

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Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on June 8, 2016 at 2:44am

I've read several reports (probably many duplicates picked up from the news wires, but still). So far, I've not seen the word "accident" used. The article in the NY Times begins:

Five people were killed and four others were injured on Tuesday night after a pickup truck plowed into a group of bicyclists on a road about seven miles north of Kalamazoo, Mich., the authorities said.

No mention of the fact that a human was presumably behind the wheel and that it wasn't actually the pickup truck's fault (this isn't a Stephen King novel, after all). Still, the fact that it wasn't referred to as "an accident" is an improvement.

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Permalink Reply by Ivo Iliev on June 9, 2016 at 6:31am

My first thoughts exactly...

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Permalink Reply by Maurice on June 8, 2016 at 6:26am

The headline in The Atlantic calls it an accident. They're getting eradicated on Facebook for doing so.

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Permalink Reply by Yasmeen on June 8, 2016 at 2:36am

"We are not just bicyclists but Mothers, Fathers, Children, Husbands, Wives, Sisters, Brothers, Aunts, Uncles, Sons and Daughters," the Facebook post continues. "God please embrace those injured and open your arms to those taken tonight."

http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2016/06/kalamazoo_cyc...