Comments on: A few thoughts on the cyclist fatality this morning http://www.tucsonbikelawyer.com/a-few-thoughts-on-the-cyclist-fatality-this-morning/ Because Every Bicyclist Needs a Good Lawyer. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:06:45 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Stephanie Jackter http://www.tucsonbikelawyer.com/a-few-thoughts-on-the-cyclist-fatality-this-morning/comment-page-1/#comment-5629 Stephanie Jackter Sat, 30 May 2009 05:45:59 +0000 http://www.tucsonbikelawyer.com/?p=788#comment-5629 He was my son's soccer coach a few years ago. Nice guy. Total soccer nut and as dedicated a bike rider as they come. I don't think he owned a car and we always saw him on the roads riding his bike everywhere, including all over town to the soccer matches the kids he coached played in. I don't think he had family in Tucson, but I may be wrong. This is the second time I've been on this website remembering someone I knew who got mowed down on a bike (RIP to Kevin too). When does it ever stop? I live three blocks away and as I drove by the roped off area this morning, I asked one of the cops if it had been a child. She said "No". My own kids didn't have tennis camp today, but are often in that area at that time of day. It didn't have anything to do with today's tragedy, but that entrance to the Randolph Park Tennis and Recreation Centers and skate park(just south of Broadway on Alvernon),is THE MOST DANGEROUS exchange in all of Tucson and I hope that Coach Oke's death there can alert people to the extreme danger of having a walking path, roadways, bikers, skaters, walkers, dogs, kids and cars all intersecting without much of anything in the way of warning signs or other deterrents. It's only a matter of time before others die there too. He was a decent man and will be missed. Rest in Peace, Drake Okusako. - Stephanie Jackter He was my son’s soccer coach a few years ago. Nice guy. Total soccer nut and as dedicated a bike rider as they come. I don’t think he owned a car and we always saw him on the roads riding his bike everywhere, including all over town to the soccer matches the kids he coached played in. I don’t think he had family in Tucson, but I may be wrong.

This is the second time I’ve been on this website remembering someone I knew who got mowed down on a bike (RIP to Kevin too). When does it ever stop?

I live three blocks away and as I drove by the roped off area this morning, I asked one of the cops if it had been a child. She said “No”. My own kids didn’t have tennis camp today, but are often in that area at that time of day.

It didn’t have anything to do with today’s tragedy, but that entrance to the Randolph Park Tennis and Recreation Centers and skate park(just south of Broadway on Alvernon),is THE MOST DANGEROUS exchange in all of Tucson and I hope that Coach Oke’s death there can alert people to the extreme danger of having a walking path, roadways, bikers, skaters, walkers, dogs, kids and cars all intersecting without much of anything in the way of warning signs or other deterrents. It’s only a matter of time before others die there too.

He was a decent man and will be missed. Rest in Peace, Drake Okusako. – Stephanie Jackter

]]> By: Teresa Nystrom http://www.tucsonbikelawyer.com/a-few-thoughts-on-the-cyclist-fatality-this-morning/comment-page-1/#comment-5628 Teresa Nystrom Sat, 30 May 2009 05:28:50 +0000 http://www.tucsonbikelawyer.com/?p=788#comment-5628 I was very upset to hear about this accident. I felt the same pain in my arms that I felt when Chuck was killed. Our family will be praying. I was very upset to hear about this accident. I felt the same pain in my arms that I felt when Chuck was killed. Our family will be praying.

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