RE: Recent Road Rage Incident Against Bicyclists (UNCLASSIFIED)
John Trujillo
laters,
> Subject: RE: Recent Road Rage Incident Against Bicyclists (UNCLASSIFIED)
> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:31:33 -0600
> From: kurt....@us.army.mil
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> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
> Caveats: NONE
>
> Damn,
>
> Sounds like an outstanding citizen of society.......... NOT!!!
> R/Kurt
>
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> From: Cunico, Shane (Civ, ARL/SLAD)
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> Subject: FW: Recent Road Rage Incident Against Bicyclists (UNCLASSIFIED)
>
> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
> Caveats: NONE
>
> FYI
>
> T. Shane Cunico
> Chief, Experimental Support Branch
>
> ARL/SLAD
> Phone: 575-678-8526
> SIPR: shane....@us.army.smil.mil
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trina Witter [mailto:tr...@solsurvival.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 11:25 AM
> To: MVBC...@gmail.com; Mayor Miyagishima; Terrence R. Moore; Robert Garza;
> Miguel G. Silva; Nathan P. Small; Sharon K. Thomas; Dolores Connor; Olga
> Pedroza; Gil Sorg; Andy Hume
> Subject: Recent Road Rage Incident Against Bicyclists
>
> Good Morning!
>
> I rec'd an email from one of our members recently detailing a road rage
> incident that occurred here in March on Valley Drive. One of our members
> was riding with an out of town bike touring group while they were in town
> helping them find their campground and navigate around town.
>
> A group of 5 cyclists from Washington state, Canada, TN, and CA were
> traveling cross country and were riding down Valley Dr. They were riding
> single file ~ 10-12 mph over as far to the right as practicable. One of the
> male riders got bumped (appeared to be intentionally) by a motorist on his
> rear pannier. At the Valley/Picacho stop light the rider hit the bumper of
> the car with an open hand and yelled at the driver to watch out because
> there were cyclists on the road. The driver got out of the car (keep in mind
> that the car was in the driving lane and there were cars behind him) and
> began swinging a baseball bat at them and yelling that cyclists had no
> business being on the road. Said he was going to
> call the police and have them arrested and other more ugly stuff. The
> motorist hit the bat so hard
> on the pavement that it broke. The riders were terrified that they were
> going to be struck with the bat and that their bikes were going to be
> destroyed. Luckily An off-duty, but still in uniform and armed security
> guard, was behind them all and called the police as did one of the riders.
> The police came (6 cars/ 6 officers) and at that time the motorist began
> telling LCPD that the cyclist had damaged his car and should be arrested.
> Fortunately the LCPD officers believed the cyclists and handcuffed the guy
> and charged him with attack with a deadly weapon. I have photos but the
> local cyclists have asked that they not be released for privacy reasons.
>
> The driver has been released. As far as I am aware the DA has not made
> a decision yet whether to prosecute.
>
> Here is a description of the car as a warning to cyclists to avoid any kind
> of confrontation whatsoever with this motorist.
> The car is a Honda Civic, custom painted black in front and red in back with
> a jagged line separating the two colors. It is covered in bumper stickers -
> "No Bama, No Socialism" - "Better to Die on your Feet than to Live on Your
> Knees" - "Al Qaeda for Obama" - "Whose Son is Fighting in Place of Yours" -
> "Better to Die on Your Feet than to Live on Your Knees" - "Your Liberal
> Professors are Lying to You". It also has a POW-MIA license plate and and
> NRA sticker. Apparently the cyclists also saw other billy clubs in the car
> but they noted that the police did not search the car for other weapons.
>
> While the out of town bike riders stated that this kind of thing could have
> happened anywhere is it indeed unfortunate and embarrassing that it had to
> happen here in Las Cruces. I see cross country touring riders almost every
> week coming through town and I hope they have much more positive experiences
> while they are here.
>
> Officer Downs with LCPD has stated that if you can get license numbers of
> cars who harass (e.g. throwing objects, trying to run you off the road or
> run you down) you that he will try to follow up and cite where he can or at
> least give the motorists a warning where he cannot. You can forward any
> incidences to me if you like and I will forward them to Officer Downs.
>
> Please be careful out there!!
>
>
>
> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
> Caveats: NONE
>
> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
> Caveats: NONE
>
>
desert...@comcast.net
Just as a "heads up" to all, to beware of a dark brown Ford Excursion. I think the license plate also included the numbers 763 but I didn't get them all. Last weekend while riding with three other riders, I was rolling down Soledad Canyon (west) from Sierra Vista trail when this driver who had been traveling East, decided to perform a "4 point" turn (hey, it was an Excursion) in the middle of the road near the SV trailhead where there were no lanes to turn in to. I saw this with lots of time to slow down and did so but continued to roll. The driver had his land yacht near the end of the procedure and was ready to make the final wide swath to head back west but was clearly going to require most of both lanes yet. At this point I was ~30 feet away and I saw him (and his wife) look directly at me thus I continued to roll along well, to the side thinking he would now wait as I had right of way.... wrong! He gunned it just as I was passing and thankfully, missed me by < 2 ft. Needless to say, being such a mild mannered person, I sat up, looked at him, pointed to my eyes and suggested loudly that he might have a vision problem :) He proceeded to pull right beside me, open his window and loudly express his opinion that *$%&ing cyclists didn't belong on "my road" etc. etc. while demonstrating the length of his middle finger and swerving his truck at me. His wife looked mortified. I had the oppportunity to tell him cyclists taxes pay for the roads too and he needed to learn some road laws at which point he then again gunned it and left. Clearly not a fan of cycling. This guy was very heavyset (maybe thats why he needed the land yacht), black hair, dark complexion, I think a mustache.
Steer clear if you see him.
Cheers,
Rob K.
Brad Wilkinson
From: John Trujillo <snm...@hotmail.com>
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