{"id":1076,"date":"2008-06-28T12:15:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T17:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/06\/28\/a-couple-of-cautionary-tales\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:54:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:54:36","slug":"a-couple-of-cautionary-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/06\/28\/a-couple-of-cautionary-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"A couple of cautionary tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djking\/1218242937\/\" title=\"Evening Trafic by djking, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1249\/1218242937_d2a358c8a4.jpg\" alt=\"Evening Trafic\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 6px\" height=\"500\" width=\"334\" \/><\/a>\u22c5 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/montrealgazette\/news\/story.html?id=67e3f542-6812-4b46-a03e-c32941421278\" title=\"Montreal Gazette\">Man dies in hit-and-run in Montreal<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-canada.ca\/regions\/Montreal\/2008\/06\/28\/001-delit-fuite-mort.shtml?ref=rss\" title=\"CBC\">D\u00e9lit de fuite mortel<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberpresse.ca\/article\/20080628\/CPACTUALITES\/80628016\/1019\/CPACTUALITES\/?utm_source=Fils&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=ACTUALITES\" title=\"La Presse\">Le conducteur d&#8217;un scooter meurt dans un d\u00e9lit de fuite<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An SUV hit and killed man on a scooter around 2 am Saturday near St-Laurent and Villeneuve. The SUV driver then dragged the scooter all the way to Rachel and de l&#8217;Esplanade. The police later found the vehicle outside a bar in Vieux-Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>What a horrifying story. It&#8217;s difficult to know what to take from this exactly except to be super-super-cautious, especially now during the jazz fest when perhaps there are more drunk drivers and tourists on our streets.<\/p>\n<p>&sdot; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/montrealgazette\/news\/story.html?id=3c6198aa-7732-4060-8f9a-181d1ce0cbbc\" title=\"Montreal Gazette\">Cyclist hit on Parc Ave.<\/a> around 3:30 am Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The article mentions that the cyclist &#8220;probably won&#8217;t be fined for riding his bike on the wrong side of the street&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good reminder that you should ride in the direction of traffic, except of course where the bike lane dictates.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing justifies hitting a cyclist, but it&#8217;s always better to be safe above all else.<\/p>\n<p>So be safe this weekend, everyone.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/djking\/\" title=\"flickr user djking\">djking<\/a> on Flickr.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u22c5 Man dies in hit-and-run in Montreal | D\u00e9lit de fuite mortel | Le conducteur d&#8217;un scooter meurt dans un d\u00e9lit de fuite An SUV hit and killed man on a scooter around 2 am Saturday near St-Laurent and Villeneuve. The SUV driver then dragged the scooter all the way to Rachel and de l&#8217;Esplanade.<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/06\/28\/a-couple-of-cautionary-tales\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;A couple of cautionary tales&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5032,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7828,7831,7834,7839,31],"tags":[7,6,359,50,38,125,42,56,26,2666,74],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","category-community","category-features","category-neighbourhoods","category-traffic","tag-behaviour","tag-cycling","tag-cyclist","tag-mcgill-ghetto","tag-mile-end","tag-montreal","tag-moving-day","tag-plateau-mont-royal","tag-public-enemy","tag-suv-driver","tag-the-main"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A couple of cautionary tales - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/06\/28\/a-couple-of-cautionary-tales\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A couple of cautionary tales - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u22c5 Man dies in hit-and-run in Montreal | D\u00e9lit de fuite mortel | Le conducteur d&#8217;un scooter meurt dans un d\u00e9lit de fuite An SUV hit and killed man on a scooter around 2 am Saturday near St-Laurent and Villeneuve. 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