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Originally Posted by Dunbar
The speed limit on the weekend (with the schools being closed) is 45mph along that stretch of highway. If you look on google maps you can see a 45mph speed limit sign about 2 blocks south of this location. The cyclist would be traveling up the incline when heading north. You can see from the CBS video screenshot pretty clearly that the police car is stopped on a slight incline. A cyclist doing ~15mph being struck from behind by a car doing 45-50mph would be enough to kill someone on impact.
Yes, It seems my location was off by a few hundred feet. The street view images are a year and a half old making it difficult to match the scene to the news images. Those trees are really fast growers; looks like a foot an a half.

Originally Posted by herbm
Unfortunately...I did Alice...
That's sad to hear. It could be any of us.
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