Tucson Velo

Update II: According to a press release, Akers was riding north on Mission Road. He was struck when he entered the intersection at Irvington Road. Investigators have also identified a potential second suspect in the crash and working with the Pima County Attorney to file “appropriate charges.” Update: The cyclist killed this morning was on his [...]

The driver who struck Sam Abate in May of 2011 and then fled the scene and attempted to repair her car, will be sentenced on April 15. Read more about the case here.  Abate’s father, Bill sent an email to Tucson Velo about the sentencing. According to Abate, Abigail Allin spent a year in jail and [...]

It appears the driver accused of hitting and harassing cyclists on the Jamis-Hagens Berman cycling team has begun to defend himself in an online guitar forum. The post, which appears to have been removed, was created at 8:43 a.m. by the user Skatterbrane, the name of the business Rodney Kinkade Jr. owns. In the post, [...]

Update: See the photo of Rodney Kinkade Jr. below.  Editor’s note: Check out Tyler Wren’s first-person account.  One cyclist with the Jamis-Hagnes Berman cycling team was sent to the hospital and several others were injured during an assault by a Tucson motorist on Friday morning around 11 a.m., according to a team rider. The professional cycling [...]

Members of the Tucson-Pima County Bicycle Advisory Committee expressed their concerns about the modern streetcar during a presentation by the streetcar’s planners during Wednesday’s BAC meeting. The streetcar team presented the lane layouts throughout several sections of the route. The new tracks will be placed in the roadway in each direction rather than one track [...]

No action was taken on bike boulevards during Wednesday night’s Tucson Pima County Bicycle Advisory Committee meeting. The lack of action essentially solidifies the BAC’s stance supporting equal standing for bicycle boulevards in the RTA. BAC members Eric Post and Julie Prince went on the record indicating they could no longer support the BAC’s motion [...]

The Arizona Daily Star is reporting that a cyclist was hit on River Road between Sabino Canyon and Craycroft. A man has been taken to University Medical Center after being hit by a van while riding his bicycle on the northeast side, authorities said. The crash happened just after 9:15 a.m. on East River Road [...]

Editor’s note: I’ve introduced a new blog category for posts like this, which are more personal and contain limited reporting. The post will still appear on the main page, but will be categorized as a blog. Yesterday on my way home from the El Grupo points ride I was nearly sandwiched between a turning vehicle [...]

I ran across this info from The Leavenworth (Kansas) Times about Dennis McKinney, who was killed last Monday while riding his motorized bike on Congress. Police reports have indicated the trolley tracks caused him to fall in front of the vehicle that struck and killed him. Dennis Mckinney, 57, born 8/12/52 in Medford,Oregon died in [...]

The police report outlining the crash that killed Dennis McKinney, a 47-year-old motorized bike rider, says that the trolley tracks caused him to lose control of his bike and fall into the path of Chevrolet work truck. According to an off-duty police officer who witnessed the accident, McKinney had successfully crossed the right trolley track [...]

The Tucson Police Department pavement markings related to the death of Dennis McKinney, 47, who was killed while riding his motorized bike on Congress near Toole, were still clearly visible Tuesday afternoon. The police department’s records division is only open Monday, Wednesday and Friday so the police report wasn’t available yesterday, but the pavement markings [...]