Pickup hits UF student on bicycle

Aug 28, 2024 11:44 am
Gainesville Police Department patrol car
Photo by C.J. Gish

A pickup hit and severely injured a UF student riding a bicycle at the intersection of SW 4th Avenue and SW 13th Street on Tuesday afternoon.

According to Gainesville Police Department (GPD) spokesperson Brandon Hatzel, the incident happened around 5 p.m. and the bicyclist is at a local hospital with severe injuries.

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    C.J. Gish is the senior editor for Mainstreet Daily News. He is a Pacific Northwest transplant who grew up in Oregon and moved to Florida in 2018. C.J. has spent more than 30 years in media, public relations and marketing, including stints as a newspaper reporter, working at two TV stations (FOX and ABC) in Boise, and as a media specialist for Eastern Oregon University. C.J. enjoys sports, especially the NFL and NBA, and is the father to three amazing adult children. Send story ideas to editor@mainstreetdailynews.com

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These students think they own the road and can walk and ride whenever they want to! First one of the year I look forward to more!!

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Amanda

I am a bike commuter and was almost hit by a truck at this exact intersection before. The vehicle blatantly ran a red light. I had to swerve into the gutter in the northbound direction to avoid getting crushed. In a second, this person could have taken my life. I don’t think they even know what happened — they weren’t paying attention.

You bring up the frustration of pedestrians and cyclists who aren’t paying attention, but the fact is that a lot of drivers out there aren’t paying attention either. We all have a right to share the roadway and a responsibility to look out for one another. These cyclists and pedestrians are daughters, sons, brothers, cousins, mothers, fathers, etc — human beings who do not deserve to be killed, any more than a person in a vehicle deserves to be killed while trying to get from A to B. Let’s all do better.

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