Happened upon this news story last night, about an hour after the actual collision.
By the time we drove by, the intersection was crawling with La Mesa police and MTS folks, with the two-car trolley stopped about 50-100 years beyond the grade crossing. What had been a bright red bicycle was now a modern art piece lying against a rail of the track the trolley was not on.
The bicyclist survived with multiple broken bones because he didn't quite beat the trolley, thus smacked into the side of the first car and bounced off.
Felt sorry for any students at San Diego State that were heading home after their first day of classes; I bet that became an adventure.
And note that, as usual, the paper got it backwards in the headline. The cyclist hit the trolley, not the other way around.
cx500 And note that, as usual, the paper got it backwards in the headline. The cyclist hit the trolley, not the other way around.
In the print edition of the paper this morning, it was bicycle hits trolley. In the website's defense, they got the story up with headline shortly after the original occurrence when details were sketchy.
Our ABC affiliate posts this story which indicates that early reports were that the trolley hit the bicyclist, later corrected when the La Mesa PD issued the update. The CBS affiliate has only the short original post on their website, which has the trolley hits bicycle angle, while the NBC affiliate is pretty much oblivious to the story on their website. The CBS station was the only one that showed up with a news van, but I didn't watch the news last night to see what if anything they ran.
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