Potholes and Road Apples

 UPDATE:
East Earl Township police late Tuesday afternoon identified the cyclist killed Sunday morning as Harold L. Hartzell, 61, of Manheim.
Hartzell was riding the Covered Bridge Metric Century route. He apparently lost control of his bike turning from Centerville Road to Sensenig Road at about 8:46 p.m. According to the police report, Hartzell’s bike left the roadway, […]

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It was all over the news this morning, including in this Associated Press report, that Floyd Landis took a fall during a training ride Thursday and was then a no-show at a Tour of California press conference that evening. The race begins in Sacramento Saturday afternoon.
According to a tour official, Landis was “bruised up pretty […]

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Bob Mionske, the legal columnist at Velonews, has an interesting piece posted entitled “Summer of Rage,” in which he discusses recent incidents of road rage directed at bicyclists nationally.
The most interesting aspect was his discussion of the psychology behind road rage. Beyond the us v. them psychology that would be expected from different users of the […]

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An 11-year-old Lancaster City boy was struck and killed by a motorist while riding his bicycle near Reservoir Park on Sunday evening, city police reported.
Drew Bogroff, whose family lives near the park, had seen a fight or some other disturbance in the park and was riding to his home to alert family members to call the police, […]

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A bicycle commuter in Washington, D.C. intervened Wednesday morning to stop syndicated political columnist Robert Novak after Novak reported struck a pedestrian on D.C.’s K Street and then kept driving.
According to a Washington Post account, Novak was driving his black Chevrolet Corvette with the top up when he struck a homeless man crossing the street. The […]

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A car plowed into a bike race along a highway near the US-Mexico border on Sunday, killing one and injuring 14 others, the Associated Press reported this morning.
Police investigator Jose Alfredo Rodriguez says the 28-year-old driver was apparently drunk and fell asleep when he crashed into the race.
Rodriguez says Juan Campos was charged with killing […]

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An 18-year-old East Earl woman died Sunday at Reading Hospital after being struck by a motorcyclist last week in the 100 block of Pleasant Valley Road in Brecknock Township.
Verna Hoover was riding her bicycle on Pleasant Valley Road on Tuesday evening. She was riding with her sister, Jane Hoover, 21, when they were struck. Jane […]

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Two women riding bicycles were severely injured when a man riding a motorcycle crossed the center line and ran into them on Tuesday evening in Brecknock Township, state police reported.
Adam Eugene Nolt, 21, of East Earl, was travelling west on Pleasant Valley Road at about 8:30 p.m. on a Harley Davidson motorcycle when he rounded a left-hand […]

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The first stage of the three-race Tour de Ephrata will be held in southern Lebanon County next month after the West Earl Township supervisors rejected an application to hold it in their area.
The Jackson Road Race will be on a five-mile circuit near Myerstown on Saturday, April 26.
The course replaces the Farmersville Challenge course, that started and […]

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A Maytown woman was handed a 3-6 year sentence Monday for striking and killing a bicyclist while driving drunk last year.
Denise Hall, 50, who also has a residence in Florida, struck Michael Blankenbiller while he was riding on the right shoulder of Harrisburg Pike, in Manheim Township, near the Park City Center shopping mall at about […]

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