Katherine Rose ([info]scarletdulcinea) wrote in [info]b0st0n,
2009-09-13 17:00:00
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Bicycle crushed on B Line, 9/12.

Yesterday around 5:00 PM on the B line near BU Central, we came to a halt that lasted about ten minutes. I was in the second car. Finally the conductor announced, "everyone off the train, move quickly, I need you out of here as fast as possible, and don't go looking under any trains, it's not worth it." Ice dagger to the heart.

I didn't intend to look at anything, but we were walking alongside the trains in order to get to the crosswalk, and as we approached the front of the first car I caught a glimpse of a bicycle, crushed, the train had rolled over it by a good ten feet or so. There were two cops there already, just standing there, not helping any injured person. The only distressed person I saw was the T conductor of the first car, who was bent double, gasping and choking. That made me think that the injured person was in a place unreachable. I hightailed it out of there, and as I spedwalk down Comm Ave sirens sounded from all directions as emergency vehicle after emergency vehicle raced to the scene.


I've googled, I checked the MBTA's twitter feed, boston.com, and BPDnews, all nothing. I want to know what happened.

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[info]volksjager

September 13 2009, 21:16:34 UTC 2 years ago

Ah, the old B-line blues...

[info]kpht

September 13 2009, 21:21:13 UTC 2 years ago

What the fuck is wrong with you? Someone got hit by a train.

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[info]koifishkid

September 13 2009, 21:19:33 UTC 2 years ago

http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO124314/

Not much more in there than what you already said though.

[info]scarletdulcinea

September 13 2009, 21:21:27 UTC 2 years ago

Fuck. Thank you.

[info]kpht

September 13 2009, 21:20:27 UTC 2 years ago

http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO124314/

yikes.

[info]scarletdulcinea

September 13 2009, 21:21:36 UTC 2 years ago

Fuck. Thank you.

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[info]lomagna

September 13 2009, 21:34:53 UTC 2 years ago

He's fine.

http://www.dailyfreepress.com/t-hits-bu-student-cyclist-1.1875086

[info]scarletdulcinea

September 13 2009, 21:36:21 UTC 2 years ago

Re: He's fine.

Ahh! Thank you!

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[info]arib

September 13 2009, 21:38:39 UTC 2 years ago

It seems like there are two pieces of news that happen every year, and nobody ever seems to do anything to prevent them:

1- A BU student gets hit by a B-line train..

2- A college student somewhere in the Greater Boston/Cambridge area falls off of the roof of an apartment building during a party.

Somehow, you'd think this could easily be addressed.

[info]mutiny

September 13 2009, 21:43:58 UTC 2 years ago

How would you propose we solve problem #2?

I vote that we ban college kids.

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[info]sparkgrrl658

September 13 2009, 21:44:38 UTC 2 years ago

sorry kt & op but seriously...maybe you've never lived near the b line?

i am telling you, you have to be a grade A fucking moron and/or TRY to get hit by one of these things. the squealing of the cars will wake you out of a dead sleep a block away, and they only go about two miles an hour since there's a damn stop every two feet and well, it's the mbta. AND IT'S ABOVE GROUND! YOU CAN SEE IT! FROM FAR AWAY!

it's not like the acela coming out of nowhere at a billion mph.

again, sorry, but i'm just truthfully amazed on how the hell this keeps happening.

[info]scarletdulcinea

September 13 2009, 21:50:58 UTC 2 years ago

No, I'm with you there. I thought it may have been a child for exactly that reason, which contributed to my distress.

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[info]mutiny

September 13 2009, 21:45:58 UTC 2 years ago

HIS BIKE RECEIVED NO DAMAGE?

I want to know what make bike that is, because that's gotta be one sturdy motherfucker.

[info]krztov

September 13 2009, 23:40:13 UTC 2 years ago

yeah that was my first thought.

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[info]sonofabish

September 13 2009, 21:49:08 UTC 2 years ago

Holy crap. Glad he's ok.

[info]wikkid_smaht

September 13 2009, 21:57:01 UTC 2 years ago

i thought you said you saw the crushed bike? the article said his bike received no damage...

[info]scarletdulcinea

September 13 2009, 22:04:43 UTC 2 years ago

It was pretty far under the train, about ten feet back, one wheel jutting out. I assumed it was crushed.

[info]xiphias

September 13 2009, 21:58:18 UTC 2 years ago

. . . wow. Run over by a FUCKING TRAIN, and not only uninjured, but so's his bike.

Um.

That's luck verging on a SUPERPOWER, that is.

[info]sparkgrrl658

September 13 2009, 23:41:53 UTC 2 years ago

well, since neither he nor his bike was actually run over by anything, i'd say...it's just life and the general laws of physics and all that.

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[info]madrigal

September 14 2009, 00:18:25 UTC 2 years ago

The biker said neither party was entirely at fault in the accident, but that it was just a “one out of a million” coincidence.


umm... it was totally your fault dude.

[info]birdiefan1

September 14 2009, 00:42:01 UTC 2 years ago

Seriously, the train is never at fault; it's bigger than you AND it has the right of way.

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[info]scarletdulcinea

September 14 2009, 11:39:59 UTC 2 years ago

I love how I've gone from feeling really very shaken to thinking "... fucking BU students."

[info]skoll_swallows

September 14 2009, 11:58:02 UTC 2 years ago

Maybe I'm just old and jaded, but my first thought was 'drunken BU student'

[info]arfyness

September 14 2009, 14:03:09 UTC 2 years ago

Wowie. Strange business.

I wanna know what the bike was made of. :o)

Seriously though, how do you not see a TRAIN coming?

[info]koinu_goddess

September 14 2009, 17:19:29 UTC 2 years ago

Re: Wowie. Strange business.

Maybe is was made out of carbon fiber? That stuff is TOUGH to break but I don't know how it does against a train. Maybe it could have been the speed of the train that kept it from being smooshed?

[info]etana

September 14 2009, 17:17:55 UTC 2 years ago

OMG that's my fear - the train needing people to get off, but rather than being above ground we're below and my guide dog and I can't walk safely on the path the rest of the folk do and we're stuck in a burning train and die and haunt the red line tunnels for all of eternity....which would suck.

Heh.

[info]icecreamempress

September 14 2009, 20:00:02 UTC 2 years ago

I was once stuck in a NY subway car and we had to get off and walk, and several passengers (including me) helped a blind man and his guide dog along the tracks without incident, and there were dozens more people milling around asking if they could help. I can't believe people wouldn't be equally helpful in Boston.

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[info]icecreamempress

September 14 2009, 19:57:38 UTC 2 years ago

On a somewhat unrelated note, if the woman with dark curly hair down to the middle of her back who was riding her bicycle around 8 p.m. on Friday over the BU bridge (she was wearing a brown sweater over a red-and-white flowered dress or skirt) is reading this, please be aware that you almost died because you were riding your bike against traffic without lights and without even the half-assed red triangle reflector on the back of your bike. The little reflective strips on the pedals are not enough to make sure cars see you.

Also, wear a helmet. Wear a helmet, observe traffic laws, signal when you turn, and get some damn lights and reflective surfaces on your bike. It is not my job to save your life--you're lucky that was me and not a driver who was careless and/or didn't have really good night vision.

[info]poziomka

September 19 2009, 20:51:06 UTC 2 years ago

I'm sorry to hear that. I hope everyone, you and them, are okay. :)
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