maddmaxx 

https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24943229/

I do not know how long this link will stay open to MSNBC news but this is the result of an American Driver (possibly drunk) slamming into a road race across the boarder from Brownsville Texas. If he was drunk, I hope that they don't give him back.

vtjim

The picture alone is just awful. Jaw dropping. WTF?

naujcdl

Wow, that is bad, the picture, like you said, is just ewww scary.

i hope all are ok and get back to racing again one day.

Herman47

Five of the bicyclists were killed.

O-Town

This photo shouldn't be on a major news web site. That is just not news. It's morbid.

st0ut

Sooo many issues...
One possible illeagle alien.
2 drunk driving.. the fact that bicyels wehre involved is a coincidence this could have just as easily been a parade and or school bus.

maddmaxx 

Getting drunk drivers off the road is an excellent starting point for cycling advocacy. It should be more easy to sell this to JQ Public as there is something in it for all of us.

Feathers

you are precisely correct. this was a horrible, horrible tragedy.
that goal would be far better than intentionally causing traffic jams, that's for sure. everyone would solidly and emphatically support removal of drunk drivers from the roadways. primo-comment.

John Wilke

Yes it should. Hammer it home ... DON'T DRIVE DRUNK!

kuan

No kidding. Damn. Makes me wanna just stay on bike trails.

evan_phi

Jesus H. Effingh Christ that photo terrifies me.

Drunk drivers are some of the worst murderers in the world.

adamtki

Our society is too lenient on DUI charges. On a first offense, we should impound the car and suspend their license for 6 months. Plus a $1000 fine!

Feathers

heck, i just heard of a teenager (clearly not old enough to legally drink alcohol) that got busted on a DUI and she was obviously not concerned by her actions or legal downside.
it's unbelievable what people will do without considering the consequences.

frymaster

it will certainly put more people on bikes!

UnsafeAlpine

If that were to happen, the law would have to be more stringent on what actually constitutes a DUI.

Dchiefransom

One story said the driver was a team mate of some of the cyclists.

https://www.kveo.com/news/local/19469069.html

genec

Driving with a BAC of .08 is not stringent enough?

And speaking of teen drivers... wasn't there just a story of a 17 year old that had just hit two more cyclists while Drunk... on a suspended license... and he had hit another cyclist just a year before...

Talk about lenient... I think that young man needs to spend some time drying out in a strict work camp somewhere to learn about being a contributer to society.

Dchiefransom

Maricopa County Jail.

UnsafeAlpine

.08 is stringent, but it's also at the cops discretion, so if you blow .04 (a beer), but your drunk friend who you're driving home gets lippy with the cop, the cop can write you a ticket for DUI.

ckeizer77

If by Illegal you mean the guy was an American Citizen in Mexico then yes.

and by drunk driving you mean driving drunk and blowing lines of cocaine off his dash board.

Whatever it is; illegal or not illegal, drunk or not drunk, it's still one idiot human killing cyclists.

Sledbikes

soo one thing that bothers me about the picture is why didnt they swerve to avoid the car

genec

Perhaps it was that no one looked behind while the car rapidly approached.

Sledbikes

thats a front end collission

JLauren

I think the term "accident" gets used way too often with regard to many of the thing that happen on the roads.

You (the generic "you") are a licensed driver. You've been tested and demonstrated you know the laws. You deliberately drank alcohol, then deliberately got in your car. Or you deliberately drove 20mph over the PSL. Or you deliberately ran that stop sign. And then you call what happened as a result an "accident"? Methinks there was nothing accidental about it. Maybe even pre-meditated.

merlin55

The photo in the above link was cropped on the right side....I saw the same photo on a different site and it showed a black and white Mexican police car coming toward the camera that had swerved to his left to avoid the drunk driver. It would appears that the Police car was right in front of the pack, saw the oncoming car on the wrong side and swerved to avoid the accident, thus the cyclists' view of the oncoming car may have been blocked, you can see that several riders (perhaps the front of the pack?) did swerve off the road to the dirt (just behind the pole) avoided being hit. The back of the group didn't have time to react.

Drunk Driving and impaired driving (cocaine in this case) is not an accident, it is murder.