You or the article has the wrong intersection first of all. Sherman Ave and lake street is what is mentioned in the article. That is a three-way intersection. While Sherman place and lake is a 4 way intersection. Confusion can abound because of sherman ave and sherman place and the two switching off at least according to the map.
Now, the terraserver image:
The Hummer was traveling WEST on lake as the bicycle rider was moving north on sherman ave. This would put the approaching hummer under the railroad tracks shown in both the yahoo map and terraserver image.
I think that berm and underpbutt make for a sufficent obstruction. Also note the article does not state wether the bicycle rider was going to turn left or proceed off the road directly straight.
3rdly, if your photo is the correct intersection, note the building visible on the south east corner (terraserver, scroll east) that is not in your photo. This would have been the obstruction.
Then again, maybe she just expected the hummer to stop and given the low speed limits in the area, a hummer could be in view and manage to stop in time.
I accelerate rather fast, I've seen a couple women riding in the same manner as I over time. I am generally faster than most drivers getting off the line with a bicycle. And if she rode out in front of a moving vehicle that she did not see, the yellow hummer driver is still at fault, just as that driver would have been if she (the bicyclist) had been driving a hummer as well.
Ahh... guilty by clbutt. Never mind the individual situation or person. So I take it if I ever get hit by a vehicle at an intersection it's automatically my fault by clbutt?
Do you personally know the habbits of those who wrote the press release? How do you know I or another vehicular bicyclist didn't write it? I'm not the only one who stops at stop signs you know.
What we do know is that the driver of the Hummer fled the scene. Now there may be reasons like outstanding warrants or some such that a not-at-fault driver would flee the scene, but the more probable situation is that the driver knew he-she was at fault.
