Fatal pedestrian accident at top of the world
 

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be careful folks, this was a guy walking his dog on a MMP and was hit from behind by a golf cart

I saw this one online yesterday morning like the tragic death of the pedestrian near the Waterfront Inn. I assume it was near there.


Keep your head on a swivel.

When you live in a community of old people with all the frailties and maladies that effect the elderly, you definitely need to use situational awareness. Don't walk around totally oblivious to your surroundings as the consequences can be serious.

Waterfront inn?

It is always the old.
 

Hey, yesterday’s Sumter Landing death can be blamed on a 23 year old driver hitting an elderly person. It isn’t always the old who are to blame.

I walk my dog a lot of places, but MMPs are not one of them.

Try to always walk facing oncoming traffic

We ride recumbent trikes quite a bit, in the neighborhood streets I like to ride on the wrong side so I can see oncoming traffic. I'm confident that's not how the law reads but these short trikes are easy to lose sight of from a car. We have flags but it's still an uneasy feeling to have a car sneak up on you.

If you meet a bike (trike) in your car or cart coming at you in a neighborhood does it bug you?

Haven’t experienced that but would be surprised and think “what the hell are you doing?”

It would bother me a lot.

I would worry about having a head-on crash with a vehicle driving the wrong way in my lane. What would make things worse is I would have no idea what this vehicle was going to do... Is it going to stay in the lane and I need to swerve to avoid it or will it recognize its mistake and head over to the side of the road it should be using? Do I swerve to avoid it or stay straight to avoid it? The only safe thing for me to do is stop and let the wrong-way driver go around me - and that would bother me a lot.

Recumbent scares the _______ out of us. First not sure why you are riding on wrong side. Death wish, or want to visually see what possibly is going to hit you.

You are traveling forward, car is traveling in the same lane moving forward. On a curve neither has a chance to make correction safely. You have no shot of getting out of their way, and neither does the car, because you are both basically head on collision you doing 15mph and car doing 20, it’s a lose situation either way.

If you are both traveling the same way, you have a fighting chance since you are both traveling close to the same mph, car has a better way to control situations with an oncoming cart or car. I am not a fan, recumbents are so low to the ground and they are so difficult to see. I get it. You have a flag, but it’s very tiny.
We have ridden bikes for leisure and competition. Once we moved here we were done. People drive here who have low vision issues, distraction, medical issues and people who can’t get off their phones while they’re driving.

Good luck to you. I hope you stay safe.

Where going to go when there curb? IMO those bikes are dangerous cause you just can’t jump off out of road. You’re stuck in seat at bumper level. Not mention there twice as hard to see especially in jacked up trucks and SUV.

Governor on carts
 

So many want to up the speed of their carts , I have stopped walking or riding my bike on the paths. These carts are flying . Slow your roll

Keywords: “hit from behind.” Always face traffic unless on a dedicated walking path!

I thought it happened where Old Mill Run meets Buena Vista.