Sadly, it couldn’t last.
After three weeks without bicycling fatality in Southern California, a man lost his life riding his bicycle in South Los Angeles, just below the Arts District.
According to My News LA, the victim was riding in the right lane on eastbound Washington Blvd just east of Central Ave moments after 11 am when he was struck from behind, flipping over the car and landing in the left lane.
The man, identified only as 35 to 40 years old, was taken to County-USC where he was pronounced dead at 12:24 pm.
The driver slowed as if he was going to stop, then gunned it to flee the scene.
A witness followed his car and gave the license number to police; the 28-year old driver was arrested in a Glendale parking lot as he was wiping debris off his car. He was booked on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter and hit-and-run.
Anyone with information is urged to call Central Traffic detectives at 213/833-3713.
This is the 70th bicycling fatality in Southern California this year, and the 30th in Los Angeles County; it’s also the 11th in the City of Los Angeles.
Three of those deaths in the city have been hit-and-runs, with seven in the county.
Another fake @VisionZeroLA fail. Washington Boulevard where the murder took place in broad daylight is directly adjacent to the future Central Avenue Bike Lanes nixed from the City of Los Angeles’ Immobility Plan 2035 by a motion of Councilmembers Curren Price and morbidly obese Paul “Jabba” Koretz. These City Council cretins and their crony snowflake Mayor have more and more blood on their hands everyday. Whatever happened to Mayor Yoga Pants’ promise when signing Executive Order #10 on August 10th 2015 implementing Vision Zero as a guiding principle of reducing traffic fatalities by 20% in Los Angeles by 2017? Yes, I was there when he signed EO#10 in Boyle Heights and Mayor Eric said reduce “by 20% by 2017, that would be Jan. 1st, 2017.