Last Wednesday morning, a box truck struck a 31-year-old woman riding in the northbound bike lane on First Avenue at Ninth Street.
She was listed in critical condition at Bellevue.
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Updated 4/12
A friend of the victim told us on Sunday that doctors were optimistic about her chances for recovery.
Unfortunately, there were complications. DNAinfo now reports that Kelly Hurley was taken off life support yesterday.
Per DNAinfo: "Investigators were still reviewing video, the spokesman added, and the driver could still be charged."
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As for this intersection, Streetsblog noted:
The block of the First Avenue bike lane approaching 9th Street has a “mixing zone,” in which cyclists and drivers turning left negotiate the same space during the same signal phase.
Intersections that separate cyclists and turning in time with “split-phase” signals have a safer track record than mixing zones, but DOT prefers to limit them to intersections with high pedestrian volumes.
On Friday, the guerrilla street engineers at the Transformation Department "staged an intervention" at the intersection ...
Mixing zone before. Drivers cut across cyclists' path or cyclists must merge into 1st Ave. pic.twitter.com/1Jdpr5N4KS
— Transformation Dept. (@NYC_DOTr) April 7, 2017
Safer for pedestrians too. #demandmore pic.twitter.com/R6SBjZrnnz
— Transformation Dept. (@NYC_DOTr) April 7, 2017
An EVG reader noted other obstacles for cyclists in the bike lane that have nothing to do with traffic... namely the trash that piles up on the weekends...
Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updating] Reader report: Bike-truck collision on 1st Avenue at 9th Street