Good morning
- Well said.
- An $8,000 tricycle handmade for a boy dealing with Prader-Willi Syndrome, a rare disease that limits muscle tone and causes rapid weight gain, was stolen. A Dundalk, MD bike shop put it up for sale on Craigslist and someone recognized. As a result, police have charged a Hagerstown man with theft and malicious destruction of property and the bike has been returned.
- The driver who plowed into Jodi Grant is still at large. Montgomery County police are investigating and would certainly like to talk with this person--and any witnesses.
- See this is how you report it. "The life of an 8-year-old boy on a bicycle may have been saved by his bike helmet, according to Fairfax County Police." Is that so hard?
- Tobacco Heritage Trail adds 2.8 miles.
Speaking of accidents, yesterday morning my better half and friends came across what looked like a terrible accident just off the CCT in the Somerset area. A recumbent was locked up, the fire dept was hosing down the road, the ambulance had left, and the police said that they werent allowed to say what happened. Anyone know?
Posted by: SJE | August 30, 2012 at 10:25 AM
I saw the aftermath while the victim (man, perhaps 60 y.o.) was still there. He looked pretty banged up but was laying in the lap of some good samaritan (lots of great people stopped to help) He was talking and appeared to be cogent and not in great pain.
Not a good spot to crash. Some bystanders said they had been hearing the ambulance trying to find a way to them for a while. It's one reason I stop riding the CCT at night after late December when the numbers on the trail plummet, the other being the phenomenom of the pool of light cast by my Nite Rider seeming to float.
Posted by: Crikey7 | August 30, 2012 at 10:46 AM
Might have been a different accident. The one I saw was down near the Palisades.
Posted by: Crikey7 | August 30, 2012 at 11:10 AM
This one was up near Bethesda.
Posted by: SJE | August 30, 2012 at 11:38 AM
Bad day on the trail.
Posted by: Crikey7 | August 30, 2012 at 11:56 AM
In happier news, the new asphalt on the inner half of Columbus Circle(ie the lanes generally going NW) is awesome. I can't wait for them to do the other half. I've almost been bounced off a CaBi bike riding around that circle.
Posted by: todd | August 30, 2012 at 12:44 PM
CaBi installed at King Street Metro yesterday. Three to go.
http://jay.typepad.com/william_jay/2012/08/capital-bikeshare-king-street-metro-.html
Posted by: Jay | August 30, 2012 at 03:29 PM