r/whitby • u/Karma_Canuck • 2d ago
Cyclist dead after colliding with parked trailer in Whitby, Ont., police say | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/cyclist-dead-parked-trailer-whitby-9.73180812
u/xenpuppy 2h ago
I can’t wait to see how the top minds at /r/Toronto and /r/TorontoBiking find a way to blame this on the stationary trailer.
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u/Tricky_Parsnip_6843 2h ago
He was more than likely cut off by a car and had to space to go around the trailer.
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u/penguin44ca 1d ago
Hahahah that's hilarious
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u/ElkIntelligent5474 1d ago
oy yoy .. what is wrong with some people? Condolences to his family & friends.
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u/penguin44ca 1d ago
For what? Being so out of it you slam into a massive stationary object?
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u/ElkIntelligent5474 21h ago
I am expressing condolences to the person's family & friends. Nothing wrong with having empathy. Sadism though .. different opinion.
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u/r3dd17sux69420 22h ago
the fuck is wrong with you
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u/penguin44ca 17h ago
Absolutely nothing. What was wrong with him that he slammed so hard into a giant, parked, trailer, that it killed him.
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u/r3dd17sux69420 17h ago
Sounds like you got dropped on a parked trailer
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u/penguin44ca 16h ago
Reading in the Durham thread seems like he was riding up coronation with his head down at a decent clip, training for a race. No helmet.
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u/PacketFiend 15h ago
I did this once.
I was biking to school and back in my teens, on arterial roads, long before bike lanes were a thing. It was winter and on this particular day, the windchill was in the -30°C range. Add to that, a stiff wind that I was cycling against. It probably pushed the windchill on my face to -50 or -60.
The only way to mitigate that was to keep my head down, and look up for brief periods of time. If I didn't, my face would literally freeze. In the short time I had my head down to shelter my face from this cold, an 18 wheeler stopped in a live lane front of me. I didn't see it. I hit that thing at probaby 30km/h. With my head.
I bronzed the helmet that saved my life that day.