{"id":65,"date":"2008-05-18T03:17:56","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T03:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saferskillman.org\/?p=65"},"modified":"2008-05-18T14:12:36","modified_gmt":"2008-05-18T14:12:36","slug":"cyclist-hit-at-43rd-street-and-skillman-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist hit at 43rd Street and Skillman Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neighbor Catherine Leopando posted <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/SunnysideNY\/message\/1364\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a> on the Sunnyside Yahoo Group:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We were out for a walk a bit ago and there had just been an accident<br \/>\nat the intersection of 43rd &amp; Skillman. A biker had been hit by a car<br \/>\n&#8211; it must have just happened when we got there &#8211; he was lying on the<br \/>\nground, unable to move other than just move his head a bit.<br \/>\nFortunately the driver stayed, and the police arrived when we were<br \/>\nleaving. I&#8217;m not sure of the condition of the biker (definitely some<br \/>\nmajor injuries), but even if he will be fine I think this is good time<br \/>\nto point out an issue discussed here a while ago. There are always<br \/>\ndrivers going way too fast on Skillman, and a suggestion to prevent<br \/>\nthat is making Skillman and 43rd ave two-way streets. It seems like<br \/>\neverytime I cross Skillman I see people treating it like an<br \/>\nexpressway. Of course, I didn&#8217;t see the accident so I can&#8217;t tell you<br \/>\nhow fast he was driving &#8212; but clearly two-way streets are less<br \/>\nconducive to these types of accidents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad that she agrees about two-way streets, but I&#8217;m very concerned about this cyclist.  If anyone has any more details, please let us know.<\/p>\n<p>This morning the DOT striped the new bike lanes.  I hope that they weren&#8217;t a factor in this crash.\u00a0 If they were, I hope we can change the lanes to be physically separated like the Ninth Avenue lanes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neighbor Catherine Leopando posted this report on the Sunnyside Yahoo Group: We were out for a walk a bit ago and there had just been an accident at the intersection of 43rd &amp; Skillman. A biker had been hit by a car &#8211; it must have just happened when we got there &#8211; he was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-lanes","category-crashes","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}