bicycling accidents

There was a fatal bicycle accident on Friday, November 14, 2014, in Carbondale, Illinois. The accident happened as a bicyclist was riding along Old Route 13 Friday afternoon, when police say that a driver went off the road and hit the bicyclist. The bicyclist was identified as Matthew Dierker, 33, of Carbondale.  He died from his …

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There have been charges filed in the hit & run bicycling accident that happened last week near Cahokia, Illinois.  The boy hit while riding his bicycle, Fabian Teason, 9, later died at a St. Louis hospital. An excerpt from The Republic article of July 19, titled “Teenager charged in southwestern Illinois death of 11-year-old boy …

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