• greenfire@lemmings.world
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    7 months ago

    If you’ve ever seen someone biking around Seattle town pulling a bright yellow or magenta cello case in a bike trailer, you’ve seen Bradley Hawkins. Even without his cello, he’s a self-identified “die-hard bicycle dude” who has been biking pretty much everywhere for a long time. But all that could have easily come to an end last week when someone driving a Hyundai Elantra ran into him from behind while he was biking on Lake Washington Boulevard on a section of road where the city under Mayor Bruce Harrell’s leadership recently cut some planned speed humps and intersection safety improvements. The person responsible never stopped, fleeing the scene and leaving behind a pile of broken car parts and a seriously injured Hawkins.

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      damn, so it’s not even like at an intersection or something, they just straight up ran into him from behind. clearly driver error.

      police should be putting lots of resources into finding this person using a weapon and nearly killing people, but I’m sure instead they’ll be focused on bullshit traffic stops