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letter to the editor
- Thu, Jan, 24, 2008
Bicycle safety and etiquette
Bicycle safety and etiquette
For more than 25 years, I have been a fitness walker on the streets, sidewalks and greenways in my neighborhood.
On Friday, Jan. 11, a first — I was on the Smith Road sidewalk between Hickory Woods and Andover subdivisions when a young high-schooler on a bicycle came from behind, giving no indication he was coming around me on my left side.
He lost control beside me and then he and the bike crashed against me.
I was thrown down, hitting the sidewalk face first and ultimately sustaining a “shredded” lip, three broken teeth, and other scrapes and bruises which needed emergency room treatment.
My purpose in giving these details is not for sympathy. Rather, for two reasons:
• To ask parents of biking children that they teach them the rules of ’cycling etiquette early on and equip their bikes with a bell or horn. Or send them to a bicycle training class. Need I say, they ARE responsible for their children’s actions.
• To extend a big thank you to the drivers who stopped to offer me a ride home and also to the ladies who came out of their homes to try to be of assistance.
Mary Anne Sedlmeier
Farragut
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