Vehicle Fatally Struck Bicyclist on Sunday on 101 Near Herrick Avenue
This is a press release from the California Highway Patrol. The information has not been proven in a court of law and any individuals described should be presumed innocent until proven guilty:
Fatal Crash Northbound 101 South of Herrick
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Prayers for the family
Not suprising another bicycle death in Eureka , when will these bicycle riders start observing and obeying the traffic law ride where they are supposed to and start stopping at all the stop sign and red lights EPD and CHP need to enforce more strict. I drive all over eureka and its getting out of control on bicycle safety.
Bicycles have just as much right on roadways as cars, maybe I’m wrong here, but it’s in the constitution you can travel the roadways at your leisure. I know a lot of people get impatient when it comes to bicycles but they legit have just as much right as a car. Anybody traveling the road for commercial use, going to work, delivery’s, anything other than leisure don’t fit into that category. I am wrong a lot but as long as it’s not stated, no bicycles, drivers should be watching and prepared to slowdown and pass when safe or stop using the roads.
Bicyclists definitely do not hold up well when they try to occupy the same space at the same time as a car. So in any space time conflict the bicyclist will most likely lose. The technicalities do not matter when you are fresh meat on the street.
Agreed, but who’s fault is that? The bicyclist for choosing to ride a bike, or a motorist choosing to be impatient or not pay attention? I know the risks when I ride but am extremely frustrated by the notion it’s always the bicyclists fault. Since I don’t know the situation I really shouldn’t speak much on it, and can see why people are frustrated with bicyclists who don’t observe the laws. That being said people need to share the road because that too, is a law.
It’s true that bicycles are considered vehicles under the law and have the right to use the road. However, they are different from cars, and a few different laws apply, including that bicycles must ride as far to the right “as practicable”. Following this sensible rule would save lives. https://www.calbike.org/go_for_a_ride/california_bicycle_laws/
As you linked, they should not be ridden on most freeways.
Actually they have MORE rights on the roadways than vehicles and this should be corrected in the law. Bicycles should be required to pull over to the shoulder anytime they are obstructing vehicular traffic. This oversight creates very serious safety issues.
It is not realistically possible to be prepared for a bicycle in your lane, traveling at 1% of the posted speed limit, as you round a corner.
BMX bike on 101 roadway in the dark, can’t imagine how this turned into a fatality.
The report reads like the bicycle was in freeway auto travel lane #1 and not in the shoulder
13 days until the referendum on Biden policies and then investigations can begin
Wow. Really? Go back to foxfaux news.
Fox News is the only truthful station but Fox also offers opinion programs, for discussions. Our nations lame stream media is the propaganda arm, of the democrat party and only prints what the democrats allow.
Truthfully if you are totally closed minded and can’t think for yourself. Oh, by the way, I’m a lifelong Republican voter, but bull sh__t is bull sh__t no matter how you form it into patties.
Anyone can join any political party. That means nothing. Where do you stand on illegal immigration, abortion on demand paid by taxpayers, and American energy independence?
But don’t answer here. The original article is about an unfortunate traffic death.
These days they’re as often Associated Press as anything else.
I thought all you RWNJ’s thought “investigations” were nothing but “witch hunts”.
What is it?
Costco fuel still under 5 bucks? Getting ready for 10, crack me up. Investigations, like Watergate? Tricky Dick was still paid millions by us after he left office. If you still think any politician will ever be held accountable , you been PLAYED. Now get out there and vote, since all peoples great voting abilities has gotten us to this stage in corruption.
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Legally they do not have to ride on the shoulder, and because they choose skinny, wimpy bike tires that pop very easily, they do not like to ever pull onto the shoulder.
An example of how something can be legal but wrong/rude to do.
I think this is the second bicycle rider to be killed in that location within several months. It is always very sad to read when someone like Mr. Ferguson was hit and killed while riding. My most sincere condolences to his family and friends. RIP. I have no idea why Colton Daniels struck Mr. Ferguson, but I know Colton is going to live with that ghost for a very long time. I hope the CHP can figure out exactly what happened, and the case can be closed so the people involved can move forward with their lives. May God bless them all.
Damn, once again you don’t know how it happened but such good thoughts.
I said I did not know how it happened!!!
I think he struck him since he was riding in the dark in the middle of the roadway, with zero safety gear. Why would anyone be in the middle of the highway slow lane in the dark unmarked? Sounds like gross negligence on Ferguson and his family needs to pay restitution to the poor guy that hit him.
So were you born without a sense of compassion, or did you lose it somewhere along the way?
Sounds like they have compassion for the driver.
I have no compassion for people that choose selfish lifestyles which impacts others lives negatively. Drugs are bad, a 50 year old in the number 1 lane on a highway at night with zero safety gear adds up to one selfish person.
There has got to be a will to create safer routes of travel for those who for whatever reason do not drive. I can think of a few reasons some do not drive or own cars. Even those people without cars should have the right to safe access to travel corridors.
No one thinks about how much public space cars take up and how much we lose because of it. Roads, parking, garages, pollution, noise, safety are all sacrificed for car use.
So do you walk to work or ride a bicycle for transportation?
Safe access doesn’t mean riding IN the lane of a freeway, especially when it’s nightime. Condolences to the family of the deceased. But a much higher magnitude of condolences to the young man driving the truck. He has a long life ahead of him. Hopefully this incident doesn’t have severe long term effects.
Won’t the Redwood train track trail bypass all the freeway? Will it be paved for bikes?
Good question.
When riding a tonight on the freeway, ride on the shoulder instead of in lanes of traffic.
I want to add to the discussion that bicyclists are far more likely to weave around and go from the bike lane to the other side of the street at a 45 degree angle in the middle of a block, or from the bike lane across a couple lanes to a left turn lane. If people drove cars as erratically as bicyclists rode their bikes there would be continuous nonstop flower and cross memorials on every road. I had a fellow pop a wheelie off of the sidewalk perpendicular to the curb 20 feet in front of my truck early this year. If I still did not still have reactions like a cat he would have been run down. I turn 70 on All Saint’s Day, and after that, boy oh boy.
I admit that it has been a long time since I lived in California (officially left around July 1988 after college); but bicycles are still prohibited on 90+ percent of Golden State freeways (see California Vehicle Code § 21960).
With all due respect to the departed, his family, and his friends, he was probably breaking the law and knew it.
Now he’s gone and the younger man has a nightmare to live with.
Bad show all ’round.