SOUTHAMPTON, N.J. (AP) � State police say a hunter wearing �very elaborate� camouflage was killed when two vehicles struck him as he tried to cross a southern New Jersey highway.
The Courier-Post reports the accident occurred around 5:20 a.m. Monday on Route 70 in Southampton. The man had a shotgun, a camouflage blanket and was dressed in leafy camouflage gear which made him less visible to drivers.
He was first struck by a car whose driver stopped, believing he had hit a deer. But when he saw a man's boot, the driver realized he had struck a person.
The driver saw an approaching tractor-trailer and tried to signal the driver to stop. But the truck hit the man and kept going.
When the truck driver arrived at work, he heard about the accident and returned to the scene.
No charges have been filed.
A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.
I would like to think I would slow down when I see a 6 ft leafy thing in the middle of a hiway. It's not like he could run as fast as a deer. Maybe it was on a corner??
Driving in to work this morning in decent/hazy daylight, there was a guy riding a bike - headed home I guess. Like we were mostly taught, he was facing oncoming traffic (me), so I was looking right at him the whole time.
He was on a blackish bike wearing gray pants. And he had on a yellow-green safety vest.
That particular color combo, along the edge of a blacktop road with a grassy shoulder, made him nearly invisible....
Driving in to work this morning in decent/hazy daylight, there was a guy riding a bike - headed home I guess. Like we were mostly taught, he was facing oncoming traffic (me), so I was looking right at him the whole time.
He was on a blackish bike wearing gray pants. And he had on a yellow-green safety vest.
That particular color combo, along the edge of a blacktop road with a grassy shoulder, made him nearly invisible....
My brother, Toby, was an avid bike enthusiast and I bought a mountain bike. I also had a flashing yellow strobe that I wore on my belt. When my fleeting interest in bicycles fled I asked Toby if he wanted the strobe. He asked, "Why? So the drivers can get a better aim at me?" It never entered my mind that a cyclist was some kind of recreational target to some motorists.
Driving in to work this morning in decent/hazy daylight, there was a guy riding a bike - headed home I guess. Like we were mostly taught, he was facing oncoming traffic (me), so I was looking right at him the whole time.
He was on a blackish bike wearing gray pants. And he had on a yellow-green safety vest.
That particular color combo, along the edge of a blacktop road with a grassy shoulder, made him nearly invisible....
My brother, Toby, was an avid bike enthusiast and I bought a mountain bike. I also had a flashing yellow strobe that I wore on my belt. When my fleeting interest in bicycles fled I asked Toby if he wanted the strobe. He asked, "Why? So the drivers can get a better aim at me?" It never entered my mind that a cyclist was some kind of recreational target to some motorists.
I don't know if you call it a "hit" or not. I was into cycling at one time as a cross training for marathon running. I'm riding with traffic [the legal way] and out of the white line. A truck came by with very wide mirrors. His mirror caught my left arm and pushed [for lack of better word] me forward ..like fast. I just rode it out and pulled over. My arm was still there. The driver didn't even notice.
It never entered my mind that a cyclist was some kind of recreational target to some motorists.
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There are some car/truck drivers out there who screw with/intentionally force motorcycles off the road. Those who play those kinds of games need to be shot.
Driving in to work this morning in decent/hazy daylight, there was a guy riding a bike - headed home I guess. Like we were mostly taught, he was facing oncoming traffic (me), so I was looking right at him the whole time.
Where did this notion come from that riding a bike against traffic is the correct/legal way to do this. Walking facing traffic is correct, but bikes are to ride with the flow of traffic, not against it. I was taught this in grade school back in the 1950s.
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. . . Alec Baldwin is directionally challenged. And apparently, that's just the beginning of his problems.
The actor was arrested Tuesday for disorderly conduct in New York after a dust-up with police, who stopped him for riding his bicycle against traffic, the New York Daily News reported.
The actor was photographed being handcuffed and loaded into the back of a police car. . . Baldwin was released after receiving summons for riding against traffic . . .
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I would like to think I would slow down when I see a 6 ft leafy thing in the middle of a hiway. It's not like he could run as fast as a deer. Maybe it was on a corner??
Dude! The guy was wearing camouflage! You wouldn't have seen him. Just like what actually happened.
Driving in to work this morning in decent/hazy daylight, there was a guy riding a bike - headed home I guess. Like we were mostly taught, he was facing oncoming traffic (me), so I was looking right at him the whole time.
He was on a blackish bike wearing gray pants. And he had on a yellow-green safety vest.
That particular color combo, along the edge of a blacktop road with a grassy shoulder, made him nearly invisible....
I would think most were taught to ride with traffic. I've never heard anyone advocate riding against traffic.
Driving in to work this morning in decent/hazy daylight, there was a guy riding a bike - headed home I guess. Like we were mostly taught, he was facing oncoming traffic (me), so I was looking right at him the whole time.
He was on a blackish bike wearing gray pants. And he had on a yellow-green safety vest.
That particular color combo, along the edge of a blacktop road with a grassy shoulder, made him nearly invisible....
I would think most were taught to ride with traffic. I've never heard anyone advocate riding against traffic.
Where did this notion come from that riding a bike against traffic is the correct/legal way to do this. Walking facing traffic is correct, but bikes are to ride with the flow of traffic, not against it. I was taught this in grade school back in the 1950s.
I would like to think I would slow down when I see a 6 ft leafy thing in the middle of a hiway. It's not like he could run as fast as a deer. Maybe it was on a corner??
Dude! The guy was wearing camouflage! You wouldn't have seen him. Just like what actually happened.
Could be. I guess I'll have to try that next time I need to be "invisible". Hope your blood pressure is o.k.
It never entered my mind that a cyclist was some kind of recreational target to some motorists.
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There are some car/truck drivers out there who screw with/intentionally force motorcycles off the road. Those who play those kinds of games need to be shot.
Yeah, those guys are [bleep] no doubt. Same side of the coin are the motorcyclists who split traffic and haul ass down the shoulder around stopped or slow traffic.
