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Re: WIFE SPEEDS TO SAVE STRICKEN HUSBAND: BICYCLIST EXPENDABLE

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From: S Curtiss
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:59
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"Jake Donwawgo" <invalid@nospam.com> wrote in message 
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> "TLittle" <mail@mail.net> wrote in message
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>> A WOMAN IN A HURRY ALLEGEDLY KILLED BICYCLIST
>>
>> Christina Jewett
>> Sacramento Bee
>> June 21, 2005
>>
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>> SACRAMENTO - A man who called 911 while having chest pains in a Wal-Mart
>> parking lot also phoned his wife, setting her on a wild tear Sunday
>> night that resulted in a fatal hit-and-run, according to authorities.
>>
>> "She was on a mission, she was not going to be stopped - a very bizarre
>> story there," California Highway Patrol spokesman Max Hartley said.
>>
>> The trek began about 10 p.m. Sunday, Hartley said, when Nicole Meshell
>> Patterson, 34, received the call from her husband. She didn't have a
>> vehicle, so she took a van belonging to a neighboring day care center,
>> rammed through a locked gate at Mission Avenue and sped onto El Camino
>> Avenue, Hartley said.
>>
>
> She was trying to save her husband who was dying,
>
> The bicycle was invisible at night, it did not have any night markings or
> light on and did not try to avoid the car, so he is mostly to blame.
>
> She should have called 911 for her husband.
>
> The bicyclist should have had reflectors on, and headlight, and tail 
> light,
> and should not have crossed in front of the moving car, in spite of what a
> green light says.  A dead dumbass now.
>
He called 911. She was speeding - she was drunk - she stole a vehicle.
It could have been a pedestrian instead of a person on a bicycle.
Too bad it wasn't a bigoted, ignorant idiot in the road.
>
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