On October 14 there was an accident between a cyclist, Kyle Regier, 19, from Edmond and an Oklahoma State University transit bus on the campus in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The collision occurred as Regier turned in front of the bus as the bus attempted to pass him. Both the bus and the student were traveling southbound on Monroe Street when the bicycle began to turn left into the parking lot north of the Henry-Bellmon Research Center as the bus attempted to pass Regier on the left, according to the police incident report.
The Oklahoma State University Police Department report concluded that the failure of the bicyclist to signal and the bus’s insufficient clearance resulted in the accident, which left the bicyclist with only a minor head injury.
Regier was taken to Stillwater Medical Center and treated for his injuries after the incident. He was treated and released from Stillwater Medical Center Wednesday and when asked about the accident he said “I don’t remember anything from Wednesday until waking up in Stillwater Medical Center,”
I know trolls out there always say… Cyclists fault.. But in this case, it’s probably correct.
He didn’t signal so looks like it.
Indeed…. He just didn’t look and the driver could do nothing. At least he didn’t run over him.
I see plenty cyclists do this every day, gobshite
Ollie Ryan can’t be the same cyclists doing it everyday because the ones that do it every day will be dead in short order.
First, they should not call it an accident. It’s a crash. From the video is sure looks like it is completely the cyclists fault. He turned straight into the bus without looking.
I wonder if he had headphones in. Surely you’d hear the bus that close?
Not necessarily. Wind noise is a factor when riding outside of the shelter of an enclosed space, plus wide touring tires typical of buses don’t exactly provide for a lot of road noise. Buses are also rear-engine, so you don’t generally hear that until after the bus is past you.
Defoe the cyclists fault, but as a cyclists I have close calls every time I get on my bike and its allways the motorists fault it’s scary!!!
Headphones by the looks of things.