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Bicyclist badly (fatally?) injured by speeding motorcyclist on Ashby tonight

by Mahtin (themahtin [at] hotmail.com)
Tonight at about 11:10/11:15, a woman on or with a bicycle was hit by a speeding vehicle on Ashby just east of Acton Street. At first I thought it must have been the speeding motorcycle that I had just heard (I heard a brief pause between the motorcycle and the pieces of the bike hitting the ground, though), but some neighbors think it could have been a police car that would have been chasing it. All I know is that the CHP responded within a minute, as if they'd been a block or less away, and the BPD were shortly behind them.
Every night, psychopaths on motorcycles, cops, trucks, and other vehicles drive at speeds that have got to be at least 30 miles above Ashby's 25 mile-per-hour "radar-enforced" speed limit. I don't know if the woman was on foot or on her bike, if she was going in the right direction or not, but all I do know is that she didn't move her legs at all during the minutes in which I was watching her. She was lying on her side.

Fortunately (?) this neighborhood is always crawling with a bunch of
useless killer cops, so the CHP must have been a block away, because they
were right there before anyone could have called. 2 Berkeley cop cars
followed in about a minute, and the ambulance probably took another 3-5. I went out there at about 11:30 and there were like 10 people in firefighter or EMT uniforms around her (isn't it first aid protocol to have as few people around as possible so the patient and the rescuer can relax as much as possible?), which makes me think that she might not survive tonight's hit and run.

Some pedestrians I talked to thought the motorcycle had to have been going
like 90.

I wish I still had photoshop. And that I had already gotten a better camera. It's so hard to take pictures at night.
§Police Were Chasing Motorcycle
by reposted
A woman riding her bicycle in Berkeley was struck and seriously injured in a hit-and-run crash by a motorcyclist trying to elude California Highway Patrol officers, authorities said today.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/19/BA7110OVF5.DTL&tsp=1
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