http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070908/NEWS/70908012/1001/NEW

It was an iPOD not an iPhone. It would be interesting to see if he was wearing the headphones or not.

But that must be horrible for the parents not knowing where your soon is for that long.

It was an iPOD not an iPhone. It would be interesting to see if he was wearing the headphones or not.

But that must be horrible for the parents not knowing where your soon is for that long.


Dam.. my bad. :( it's not all the same??

anyways, why would the apple store know your serial # to an ipod? oh well..

Dam.. my bad. :( it's not all the same??

anyways, why would the apple store know your serial # to an ipod? oh well..


Maybe I'm not seeing it, but where does it say he was riding? Could he have been just walking??? Again, maybe it's there, but the only mention of cycling is that he told his father he did not need a car as he could walk or ride anywhere he needed to.:confused:

Maybe I'm not seeing it, but where does it say he was riding? Could he have been just walking??? Again, maybe it's there, but the only mention of cycling is that he told his father he did not need a car as he could walk or ride anywhere he needed to.:confused:


Wow - I read the full article and wondered where I got it myself.

I knew I couldn't be that asleep.. screwing up 2 things.. lol

I went diggin back to source link..which mentioned it..

http://truemors.com/?p=11580

iPod IDs Crash Victim

Minneapolis authorities used an iPod serial number to identify the victim of bike accident when the man’s fingerprints came up with nothing. Police contacted Apple after finding only an iPod and some keys in the victim’s possession and, with the help of Apple employees, identified the man as Weblog Inc blogger Adam Finley. Finley died after his bicycle collided with a school bus; police do not expect to file charges.

Wow - I read the full article and wondered where I got it myself.

I knew I couldn't be that asleep.. screwing up 2 things.. lol

I went diggin back to source link..which mentioned it..

http://truemors.com/?p=11580

iPod IDs Crash Victim

Minneapolis authorities used an iPod serial number to identify the victim of bike accident when the man’s fingerprints came up with nothing. Police contacted Apple after finding only an iPod and some keys in the victim’s possession and, with the help of Apple employees, identified the man as Weblog Inc blogger Adam Finley. Finley died after his bicycle collided with a school bus; police do not expect to file charges.


that makes more sense then....

Poor lad..

A few years ago, I lived in that neighborhood. It is part of a chain of lakes where there are thousands or recreational cyclists ride on nice days-- mostly riding x-mart bikes with no helmets, wearing headphones, etc. I don't see how the bus could be at fault at that intersection, since I am almost sure that there are left turn arrows. It is tragic nonetheless.

I posted a message about this last weekend that got little response.

There's a big discussion on this very issue over here:
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?p=5257605&posted=1#post5257605

(that's the link to the second page of the thread, the first contains overhead pics of the
intersection in question).

My wife takes that way twice a day on her bike 3x a week, it's a bit close to
home but from the sounds of it the bus driver didn't see the cyclist.

It would not be physically possible for the cyclist to have been in the intersection
as described and having the bus hit the rider because a bus heading north and
taking a left (to go West) would have been at least three lanes away from the
intersection.

Rather, the rider was probably riding on the west side of the intersection and
even though it was 10 in the morning at the time of the collision the bus driver
apparently did not see the rider.

I still find it odd the rider had no helmet, no identification at all, but was carrying
an iPod. This just stikes me as very strange.

The whole situation is weird.

Dam.. my bad. :( it's not all the same??

anyways, why would the apple store know your serial # to an ipod? oh well..

When you register your device for warranty service, your serial number is part of that
information.

After the rider was struck, the riders iPod was brough to an Apple store where
Apple Corporate security were able to look up the identification matching the
serial number.

It's very odd I must say though.

I reread the original story at BF- and it all comes back to me. That intersection is a nightmare if you are coming from Calhoun, since there are no turn arrows, IIRC. So traffic gets backed up and inpatient. It sounds like the cyclist was heading south toward Calhoun and the bus turned left into him... correct?

My guess is there was a lot of traffic that the bus had to wait for--- waiting for an opening in traffic. The driver was only looking for motorized vehicles, and seeing an opening, gunned it to make the gap.... or was turning on a yellow (after having to wait forever in the intersection). The bike, not being what the driver was looking for, ended up being invisible. That is a huge intersection to cross... for it being as tight and urban as it is.

BTW- when I was a rec. rider in my youth, I never carried ID--- only keys to my apt.- clipped to a seat rail.

I posted a message about this last weekend that got little response.

There's a big discussion on this very issue over here:
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?p=5257605&posted=1#post5257605

(that's the link to the second page of the thread, the first contains overhead pics of the
intersection in question).

My wife takes that way twice a day on her bike 3x a week, it's a bit close to
home but from the sounds of it the bus driver didn't see the cyclist.

It would not be physically possible for the cyclist to have been in the intersection
as described and having the bus hit the rider because a bus heading north and
taking a left (to go West) would have been at least three lanes away from the
intersection.

Rather, the rider was probably riding on the west side of the intersection and
even though it was 10 in the morning at the time of the collision the bus driver
apparently did not see the rider.

I still find it odd the rider had no helmet, no identification at all, but was carrying
an iPod. This just stikes me as very strange.

The whole situation is weird.

A local racer was killed last weekend while he was out training with an ipod on. He crossed some RR tracks, out in the country, that didn't have lights or bells, and ended up getting hit by a 50 mph train.