Archive for the 'getting off easy again' Category
Alejandro “Beaver” Nunez, 1959-2009
Alejandro Nunez was killed while riding his bicycle on 22nd Avenue right at the intersection with South Sixth Avenue. The police did no accident reconstruction work. They did not paint the street or measure skid marks. They wrote a brief account from the perspective of the driver, which is that Mr. Nunez inexplicably [...]
Read More..>>Zero citations so far for “Three foot passing rule” in Tucson this year
A couple times a year I send a public records request to the City Court to determine how many people have been cited in Tucson for violations of the three-foot safe passing rule, A.R.S. 28-735 (A).
The statute reads:
“While overtaking and passing a bicycle proceeding in the same direction, a person driving a motor vehicle shall [...]
You want to get a ticket or dontcha?
One the things I find the most irksome about the Tucson Police Department’s various bad policies is their habit of telling wounded cyclists that if they have to write up an accident report they are going to give the cyclist a ticket.
Here’s how it works:
A cyclist gets hit by a car, and is lying in [...]
Report from the William Wilson sentencing
I couldn’t attend, but a reader has written this:
The sentencing for the Mr. Wilson was this morning and I attended. Tucson’s TV channel 13 crew was also there so it will be on today’s news. Bottom line: no jail time, 3 years of probation, he never drives again and he is to remain in an [...]
William Wilson, motorist who severely injured El Tour rider Gary Stuebe, to be sentenced Monday, June 22
It’s before Judge Richard Nichols at 9:00 AM in Room 675 of the Superior Courthouse in Tucson if you want to go.
The Superior Courthouse is the big one on the southwest corner of Congress and Church street right in downtown Tucson.
You can read more about Gary Stuebe, the El Tour rider who was critically injured [...]
Driver who killed TPD motorcyclist cited, but still no citations in Allen Johnson case
Several readers have written in to inform me that the driver who made a left turn into the path of Tucson Police Officer Peter Mannino has been cited with failure to yield and, more importantly, A.R.S. § 28-672, “Causing serious physical injury or death by a moving violation,” which could land her in jail for [...]
Read More..>>Motorist in El Tour accident pleads guilty to “leaving the scene of an accident”
Story here.
This is the driver who hit and seriously injured Gary Stuebe. (He hit several others as well). After the accident, the driver inspected the damage to his car and then drove away. Once home he tried to remove the evidence of the accident.
Stuebe remained in a coma for months [...]
Chandler area motorist on his way to buy a Hummer kills five people, gets one year in jail
Ed over at AZ Bike Law linked to this awful story earlier today and I just read it.
It was just before 10 a.m. on July 19, 2007, a Thursday. According to court records, Myers, then 24, was in his 2007 Chevy Avalanche, headed west on McDowell Road in Scottsdale, on his way to meet his [...]
Update on injured El Tour rider, Gary Stuebe
This depressing news from Eric Post, another attorney in town who handles bicycling cases:
Would you please consider forwarding this to the bicycle community?
I spoke recently with Steve Leshner, the attorney for the Stuebe family and the family is not happy with how things are being handled. [...]
County waits for blood test results to determine if motorist is guilty in Allen Johnson fatality
It appears that even drifting into the bike lane route and hitting a cyclist from behind, even if the cyclist is a Tucson police officer, will still not get you a citation for violating the three-foot safe passing rule. It seems the local authorities believe you can only be guilty of that violation if you [...]
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