Mark Reinecke
I am also hesitant to comment at all right now but I am compelled on
one specific
point to provide my recollection of the what the Deputy said. Like
Thane, I was
upset about some of the things the Deputy said but I think it takes
things out
of context to say that he said that no cyclists stopped when several
of us did.
I recall him saying that all of the witnesses they interviewed said
that a bike turned
left off highway 126. An oncoming car slowed down and a vehicle
behind that
vehicle ran into the slowing vehicle causing both to go off the
highway. He did say
that the witnesses said that none of the cyclists stopped and
continued on the route.
But I believe he was referring to the cyclist or cyclists that the
witnesses apparently
saw at the intersection at the time of the accident, not those of us
who showed up
minutes later.
Mark Reinecke
On Jun 14, 2008, at 9:50 PM, Rick C Johnson wrote:
> I was in that second group that was stopped and heard the lecture.
> All I
> will say at the moment is to correct the record on this one issue: The
> Sheriff did not accuse a Hutch's rider of causing the accident. He
> stated the Hutch's Bicycles was responsible because they sponsored the
> ride.
>
> Rick
> Hutch's Bend
>
> Julie Wose / Thane Jennings wrote:
>
>> Today was the annual Double Dawg Tandem ride to Smith Rock and
>> back from
>> Bend sponsored by Hutch's of Bend. The ride was relatively
>> uneventful
>> until the way back. Approximately 15 of us were pulled over in
>> Redmond for
>> rolling a stop sign. One in our group came to a full stop but
>> this went
>> unoticed by the sheriff deputy. The sheriff used his siren and then
>> pulled in front of the group and slammed on his brakes. Traffic was
>> completely blocked in one direction. The deputy proceeded to
>> scream and
>> yell and lecture us, not on running the stop sign but on causing an
>> accident that had happened earlier in the day. He also called for
>> back-up
>> because we were such an unruly bunch. It was his contention that
>> someone
>> on the ride pulled in front of a car causing him to swerve and hit
>> someone
>> else head-on. As far as I can tell no one in our group caused or
>> even saw
>> an accident. A number of the folks on the ride who were behind
>> our group
>> had stopped for several flats and they came across the aftermath
>> of the
>> auto accident. One of the folks who stopped for the flats is an
>> EMT who
>> works for Lifeflight, he rendered first aid to the victims of the
>> auto
>> accident. This is in direct contradiction to the Sargent who
>> lectured us
>> about causing the accident, he claimed that no cyclist had
>> stopped, this
>> is untrue, a whole group had stopped to render assistance. Every
>> cyclist
>> who happened to ride by our group was stopped by the county
>> sheriffs and
>> warned that they were watching cyclists in Deschutes County and that
>> Hutch's Bicycles was going to be sued because it was one of the
>> riders on
>> their sponsored ride that had caused the accident. We were told
>> that the
>> sheriff was fed up with the bad behaviour of cyclists and that the
>> sheriff
>> would not tolerate it in the future and that we were to pass this
>> information on to our fellow cyclists.
>>
>> I plan on writing a letter to the Deschutes County Sheriff and
>> demanding
>> an explanation. I don't like the way the Deputy Dozer personnally
>> threatened everyone in our group, his behaviour was completely
>> unproffessional. No one in our group caused an accident yet we were
>> blamed by someone who clearly hates cyclists. I would appreciate
>> hearing
>> from anyone else who was on the ride who can provide their
>> version of the
>> days events and I would encourage other cyclists who were pulled
>> over to
>> write to the Deschutes County Sheriffs office and set the story
>> straight,
>> we did not cause this auto accident!
>>
>> Thane Jennings
>>
>>
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