Enough, already.
For the third time in just the last five days, someone has been killed riding a bicycle in Southern California.
And this time, it’s clear there was nothing victim could have done to avoid it.
San Diego’s Fox 5 is reporting that a 70-year old man was killed when he was left-crossed by a 92-year old driver in the city’s Roseville/Fleet Ridge neighborhood Saturday afternoon.
The victim, who has not been publicly identified, was riding east on Evergreen Street at Cañon Street around 2:38 pm, when the woman turned left into his path. He hit her right rear door, and died after being taken to a local hospital.
The driver remained at the scene and was not injured.
A crash like this should raise the issue of how old is too old to drive. But sadly, it probably won’t.
Anyone with more information is urged to call the San Diego Police Department at 888/580-8477.
This is at least the 39th bicycling fatality in Southern California this year, and the tenth that I’m aware of in San Diego County.
That’s more than one every month.
