Police Brief 09/25/09
By Brittany Shammas
Originally Published: 09/24/09 11:49pm
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Student taken to Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital following bike accident
One student was transported by ambulance to Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital for cuts and lacerations he sustained while riding his bicycle after colliding with another bicycle at about 11:24 a.m. Wednesday, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
The injured student, an 18-year-old from Mattawan, Mich., was traveling east on the sidewalk at the West Circle Drive and Beal Street entrance when he collided head-on with a 20-year-old male student from Ann Arbor who was traveling in the opposite direction, Taylor said.
The 20-year-old student was treated on the scene for minor injuries. The current condition of the 18-year-old student is unknown.
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Qin Shi Huandi
(09/24/09 11:53pm)Report
From Ann Arbor!?
Get out of our town.
lol
(09/25/09 1:32am)Report
collided? lmao. are you serious? How is that even possible?
Mr. Obvious
(09/25/09 8:24am)Report
It’s possible, lol. I fondly remember cruising to classes on my bike and nearly getting creamed by some jerk on his $10K mountain bike that had no business riding on campus.
Rufus
(09/25/09 4:51pm)Report
I’ve been on a lot of large campuses, and MSU’s is unusually hazardous to bike, walk, and drive on. There’s a real free-for-all feel to the traffic, poor overall planning of transportation routes, and, from what I’ve seen, zero police enforcement of safe driving/biking practices. On the other hand, it does keep things exciting.
re
(09/25/09 6:11pm)Report
MSU does its job in providing spaces for people in bikes and people walking, like different sidewalks for bikes or marked roads within normal sidewalks. This is their fault.
Rufus
(09/25/09 7:05pm)Report
Actually, for a campus this size the bike paths are poor — incomplete, inadequate, and badly marked. As a result most cyclists use the sidewalk, often at an unsafe rate of speed (almost certainly a factor in this crash).
The real problem, though, is that there is no enforcement — of cyclists speeding on sidewalks, of drivers failing to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks, of anything. There is zealous enforcement of parking, but that doesn’t affect safety one bit. Laws that are never enforced don’t tend to be obeyed.
In fairness to the cops, this is a huge campus, and perhaps consistent enforcement of traffic laws is simply beyond their capacity. That’s how it feels now — like the campus is a lawless zone where it’s every walker, biker, and driver for himself.
Agreed
(09/26/09 4:15pm)Report
I have to agree with the noter who calls themselves “Rufus”. I was hit by a car while on my bicycle in a crosswalk on Bogue, where there is no bike path. I was injured badly enough to be taken to the ER as was this unfortunate person.
Accidents involving pedestrians and drivers are, for whatever reason, common at MSU. And unfortunately, they have been becoming more so.
I hope something can be done in the near future in order to make every driver, biker, and walker safer here.
hb
(09/27/09 7:51am)Report
Bogue and Shaw is a perfect example of the Hobson’s choice bicyclists have to make: be a vehicle – mix with motorists, or use the bike path, and dismount to WALK across the roadway. I choose to ‘man-up’ and put my life in the motorists’ hands instead of using the marked bike path. Can you imagine the traffic jams if ALL of the bicyclists were to dismount and walk across the streets (in a deliberate fashion)?