Every day I pass through that intersection I think of Mary (kind of hard not to when you fear your own life!).

Again, hopefully San Carlos will gets it act together and provide a safer path for cyclists.

Now I know one thing: should I ever get killed by a motor vehicle, I will try to make sure that it’s in a way that’s easily judged by my fellow cyclists commenting on it online afterwards. Next time you see a ghost bike somewhere, why don’t you stop and hang a sign on it describing what the dead person did wrong?

I know, don’t pass a garbage truck on the right — gee wow! The world’s so much safer now that this has been said for the twentieth time on here. At this point this is completely redundant and in the way of paying tribute to someone who was one of us and was trying to do the right thing by riding her bike.

She was one of us, guys.

About Stephen’s comment – passing on the right….it needed to be said.

as for the turn, it’s tricky — in just cruising around the accident scene multiple times in the days afterwards, i turned right, left, and went straight across (south) the intersection. on going straight across, i let a truck ahead of me turn right — i don’t remember if there was an indicator or not — i was just wary because i knew of Mary’s death a couple of days previous.

Then I realized that the entire southbound/eastbound Shoreway Rd, up until it intersects Holly Street — if you are driving a car/truck, you never really need to straighten your wheel out, because you already entered into a big right turn 300 ft earlier, and the intersection with Holly Street is so rounded off that you can just about keep your steering wheel cranked to the right (I suspect), and it may be difficult – or impossible on older cars/trucks – to engage/use your right turn signal after you’ve already entered a right turn. That’s the way at least one of my old cars used to be, anyways — if already turning right, pushing up on the indicator would do nothing…it would just push back, and the right arrow/blinker/indicator would never go on.

In any case, it feels like a dangerous intersection. I hope we can fix it and all of Redwood City. I’d like lanes painted over the 101 overpasses in the area, and it seems Redwood City will paint the bike lanes if Caltrans can find money to do the drawings. I’m not positive this would directly affect the collision scene, but the entire area is like a highway plopped into the middle of a park — just feels very dangerous, and unnecessarily so.

On my every day commute, I so SO MANY cars that turn without indicating. If I had to guess, I would say that the truck did not have its turn signal on. I never get on the right of any truck because I know the driver would not see me.

It only takes one mistake to erase a bicyclist. The more experienced you are, the fewer you make. But mistakes are made. We just have to pray that we are not in the wrong place at the wrong time when we do.

Thank you Zsolt for reminding everybody that this is a tribute page, not a blame page. Her family is hurting, so’s the truck driver’s I’m sure. No sense to go there.

Mick & Cindy Yonkers

My condolences to her family, including the animals.

I wonder if Redwood City has any plans to make unsafe intersections safer for bicyclists?

I should also say that it bothers me when I read articles about bicyclists and pedestrian deaths where the drivers say “I didn’t see (them)”. The article isn’t clear if the police consider this to be an “acceptable” excuse or if they prosecute. Drivers are SUPPOSED to be aware of what is around them and drive with respect for other users of the roads.