Dangerous passing on blind curves leads to fatal crash, Chula Vista CA
TrafficDrivers frequently passed bicycles dangerously on blind and hairpin curves near Telegraph Canyon Rd. Several cars drove on the wrong side of the road to pass cyclists, creating near collisions. About three to four months ago, a car passing a bicycle on a hairpin curve collided with a motorcycle, resulting in a fatal crash.
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No, I get it, kidding. I mean, they got the right to do it, but I'm just saying it may not be the safest place to ride a bicycle.
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Sure, it's a gorgeous scenic route, but,
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you know, if the last thing you see is the rearview mirror of a car you just went through.
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Anyway.
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Just like the normal people,
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there's a corner.
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You're just a corner.
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a sharp corner there and a normal person with a win-ahead and passed them on a corner.
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That happened to me.
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I'm driving around a corner.
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There's no place for me to go.
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And these about five cars around the corner on the up, the road, right?
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And pull over.
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And the guy's only to slow down.
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And it's like, he expects me to stop.
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I have the rideway. He expects me to stop for carless driving on the wrong side of the road to leave past.
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Going on a hip-hit turn.
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Uh,
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that was super spotty. You're breaking up real bad, but I get the chip. Some idiot expect you to get out of the way because they're passing like a moron,
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illegally and dangerously, on a hairpintern.
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They're on a hairpin turn.
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I'm driving around,
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and these cars, there's about four cars, and they all come driving on the wrong side of the road to pass a bicycle on a hairpin curve, and I have about 29,000 pounds, and they want me to stop on a dime so they could drive on the wrong side of the road to pass. bicycle on a hairpin curve.
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Yeah, that's why on hairpin curves, I just hit the bicycle.
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It's safer.
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That's why when I was coming around, there was a corner, and I knew that the bicycles were there.
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So I went ahead and went at the speed of the bicycle until it was safe to go, because if I would have passed, there were three cars coming up on that corner there. It's not a hairpin curve, but it was a blind corner, and there's no way that you're going to be able to stop.
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because he's got trees and hills on both sides.
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Yeah, you couldn't even see the airbed.
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So I think a lot of these people I go ride on here are from the Olympic,
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they're riding your bikes there.
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So they go down that, that very dangerous road,
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or at least once a year, a bicycle gets killed on that Telegraph Canyon Road.
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I think that's Honey Springs Road there or whatever it is there.
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Yeah, yeah,
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what was it?
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The car was passing a bicycle.
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He drives on the wrong side of the road, and a motorcycle comes around, and a motorcycle crashes into a guy that was driving on the wrong side of the road to pass the bicyclist.
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Now, that's the latest one that happened there three or four months ago that a guy was driving on the wrong side of the road on a hairpin curve to pass a bicycle and runs into motorcycles. and kills the motorcycles rider.
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Yeah, and I mean, you know, depending on if it's an inside or outside turn, a lot of times those motorcycles are leaning way over that W-O-L line.
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Telegraph Canyon Rd, Chula Vista, CA
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