<font color='black' size='2' face='arial'>
<div> <font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">cited? arrested!<br>
<br>
anyone know the cyclist's state?<br>
</font></font></div>
<div> <br>
</div>
<div style="clear: both;"></div>
<div> <br>
</div>
<div> <br>
</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Dionne, James <jdionne@SleepMed.md><br>
To: Boston CM <list@bostoncriticalmass.org><br>
Sent: Thu, Jun 3, 2010 8:03 am<br>
Subject: Re: [*BCM*] Police: Didn't see a bike? That's "reasonable and prudent."<br>
<br>
<div id="AOLMsgPart_0_851c15b9-87e4-4861-b646-ebd90b8c3b98" style="margin: 0px; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>So much for the driver using her rear view mirrors...........<br>
<br>
This is crap! She should have been cited!<br>
<br>
-----Original Message-----<br>
From: <a href="mailto:bostoncriticalmass-bounces@bostoncriticalmass.org">bostoncriticalmass-bounces@bostoncriticalmass.org</a> [<a href="mailto:bostoncriticalmass-bounces@bostoncriticalmass.org?">mailto:bostoncriticalmass-bounces@bostoncriticalmass.org</a>] <br>
On Behalf Of Jym Dyer<br>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 4:19 PM<br>
To: Boston CM<br>
Subject: [*BCM*] Police: Didn't see a bike? That's "reasonable and prudent."<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.wickedlocal.com/watertown/features/x338990898/Bystanders-lift-car-off-Watertown-cyclist-Newton-driver-not-charged-in-accident" target="_blank">http://www.wickedlocal.com/watertown/features/x338990898/Bystanders-lift-car-off-Watertown-cyclist-Newton-driver-not-charged-in-accident</a><br>
<br>
Bystanders lift car off Watertown cyclist,<br>
Newton driver not charged in accident<br>
By Dan Atkinson / Newton TAB staff writer<br>
Wicked Local Newton | Posted 01-Jun-2010 @ 04:31 PM<br>
Last update 01-Jun-2010 @ 04:37 PM<br>
<br>
NEWTON -- A driver ran over a cyclist and attempted to back up<br>
with the cyclist still under the car last week, and the cyclist<br>
was only freed after bystanders lifted the car off him. But the<br>
driver was not at fault in the accident, according to police.<br>
<br>
According to police reports, a 40-year-old Watertown man was<br>
cycling east on Commonwealth Avenue in the 2300 block at about<br>
5:20 p.m. on May 27. The cyclist told police he was traveling<br>
in the far right of the lane at about 15 mph, passing cars that<br>
were stuck or moving slowly in traffic.<br>
<br>
Off-duty Wayland Police Officer Tyler Castagno was in his truck<br>
on Commonwealth Avenue near the Mobil station when he saw the<br>
cyclist go by. Suddenly, Castagno said, a red Toyota Corolla<br>
swerved to the right to enter a driveway, knocking the cyclist<br>
over and pulling him under the car.<br>
<br>
"All I could see of [the cyclist] was his knees to his feet,"<br>
Castagno said. "Everything else, the car was on top."<br>
<br>
Castagno's fiancée dialed 911 as he tried to lift the car up<br>
off the cyclist. Three youths from another car came to help,<br>
and they and Castagno banged on the car when the driver, a<br>
38-year-old Newton woman, "gunned it in reverse" with the man<br>
still underneath. The group then lifted the car off the stricken<br>
cyclist.<br>
<br>
"We started moving it as high as we could so we wouldn't scrape<br>
his body," Castagno said.<br>
<br>
Castagno did not think the man was breathing as they moved the<br>
car past his torso and head. But other drivers had stopped and<br>
provided first aid, and Newton firefighters and EMTs quickly<br>
arrived and got him breathing again. The man was taken to Beth<br>
Israel Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<br>
<br>
Castagno, a Wayland resident who's been a police officer for<br>
two years, had been on his way to his aunt's house in Waltham<br>
to help her move some things, but when he got there his back<br>
went "spazzy" because of lifting the car. He had no complaints,<br>
though.<br>
<br>
"It was pure adrenaline, I didn't think about it," Castagno<br>
said. "I knew if the car stayed on him, he was going to die."<br>
<br>
Lt. Bruce Apotheker said the actions of Castagno and other<br>
bystanders helped save the cyclist's life. And according to<br>
the investigating officer, Apotheker said, the driver was not<br>
at fault for the crash.<br>
<br>
"The cyclist's actions, which were confirmed by his own<br>
statements, contributed to the crash," Apotheker said.<br>
<br>
The driver told police she never saw the cyclist, and because<br>
he had not previously passed her, she had no reason to expect<br>
he would be there, Apotheker said. She was not cited for<br>
improper operation.<br>
<br>
"The officer felt a reasonable and prudent person would not<br>
be expecting someone on their right," he said.<br>
<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
Boston Critical Mass mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:list@bostoncriticalmass.org">list@bostoncriticalmass.org</a><br>
<a href="http://bostoncriticalmass.org/list" target="_blank">http://bostoncriticalmass.org/list</a><br>
To unsubscribe email <a href="mailto:list-unsubscribe@bostoncriticalmass.org">list-unsubscribe@bostoncriticalmass.org</a><br>
_______________________________________________<br>
Boston Critical Mass mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:list@bostoncriticalmass.org">list@bostoncriticalmass.org</a><br>
<a href="http://bostoncriticalmass.org/list" target="_blank">http://bostoncriticalmass.org/list</a><br>
To unsubscribe email <a href="mailto:list-unsubscribe@bostoncriticalmass.org">list-unsubscribe@bostoncriticalmass.org</a><br>
</tt></pre>
</div>
<!-- end of AOLMsgPart_0_851c15b9-87e4-4861-b646-ebd90b8c3b98 -->
</div>
</font>