UF student hit by truck while riding bicycle
August 27, 2024
Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Gainesville Police Department is investigating a crash today that seriously injured a bicyclist.
The crash between a truck and bicyclist occurred at SW 4th Avenue and SW 13th Street. The bicyclist, a student at UF, was reportedly severely injured and has been transported to a hospital.
The crash is still under investigation.
Expect Gainesville to ban cars in the city now.
The last sentence says it all. “The crash is still under investigation.”
Our “bike lanes” are suicide lanes
Truck?? Pickup? Dump truck? Box truck?
I’m inferring it was the pickup truck parked on the sidewalk in front of the arts college after the police let traffic through again.
May I ask what’s the color of the pickup truck? How bad was it look like? Was the driver there? Thank you!
After dark?
About 4 in the afternoon.
Check the cyclist’s and truck driver’s cell phone usage at the time of the accident. Could solve the crime.
Bicyclists don’t generally look at their phones, especially in busy traffic. There probably were witnesses who saw the whole thing. There is sort of a jog in SW 4th Ave as it crosses 13th Street, which makes it potentially confusing.
As much as I hate to say it, putting in a special crosswalk there might not be a bad idea since there are easily 1000+ new residents in those new (2023) buildings between SW 4th Ave and SW 5th Ave, next to 13th Street. The new giant building next to Subway just opened last week (another ~1000 residents), and those students may want to cut through the neighborhood to SW 4th or SW 5th Ave to cross 13th Street instead of marching straight down University Avenue.
Not real cyclists. Students going to class? They do. Headphones or air pods…whatever you want to call them. They dim one’s awareness of their surroundings.
Respectfully disagree. They can’t (or won’t) synchronize the crosswalks they already have. Driving down 13th is like island-hopping, even when traffic is light… and when it’s packed in like that, emergency vehicles can have a hard time getting through.