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The Death of Casey Moe
The Death of Casey Moe
On August 28, 1997, the day before the August Critical Mass ride, a van owned by JCDecaux and operated by an unlicensed driver drove through an intersection in downtown rush hour traffic, where it struck and killed a 25 year old bicycle messenger named Casey Moe who was running a red light. The San Francisco Police Department and District Attorney's office, under the direction of Terrence Hallinan, declared both the driver and the company that allowed him to operate the van without a licence to be blameless. The original press report mentioned that Moe was struck by a JCDecaux van. Twenty-four hours later, that detail was removed from all press reports. The press releases and comments from SFPD's public relations officer Sherman Ackerson indicated that Moe was at fault for the accident and was "driving recklessly" though not a single eye witness can be found who will verify this version of events. The Chronicle, northern California's biggest circulation newspaper, placed the site of the accident very near a busy crosswalk lending credence to the reckless cyclist events. Our local mayor-appointed police commission sees no reason to be concerned by any of this. In San Francisco, five cyclists were killed in 1997, up from two in 1992. Primarily their fault. In San Francisco, it's nearly impossible to get SFPD officers to fill out accident reports when a cyclist is involved. Those that are filed are nearly uniformly biased against cyclists, who are assumed to be at fault whenever there is a collision. At a recent Police Commission hearing, cyclists complained of cases where reporting officers have gone so far as to disregard accounts of eye witnesses and still place the cyclist as fault. |
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