{"id":4734,"date":"2009-11-13T11:56:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T16:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=4734"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:54:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:54:30","slug":"cyclist-evades-death-after-being-struck-by-delivery-truck-on-st-laurent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/11\/13\/cyclist-evades-death-after-being-struck-by-delivery-truck-on-st-laurent\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist evades death after being struck by delivery truck on St. Laurent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4735\" title=\"124161-quelques-minutes-apres-impact-policier\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/11\/124161-quelques-minutes-apres-impact-policier.jpg\" alt=\"124161-quelques-minutes-apres-impact-policier\" width=\"455\" height=\"303\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Patrick Sanfa\u00e7on, La Presse<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This morning, around 9am, a 22-year old woman was pulled under a delivery truck and tangled up in the twisted metal of her bike, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberpresse.ca\/actualites\/quebec-canada\/les-patrouilleurs\/200911\/13\/01-921407-une-cycliste-happee-par-un-poids-lourd.php\">reports <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberpresse.ca\/actualites\/quebec-canada\/les-patrouilleurs\/200911\/13\/01-921407-une-cycliste-happee-par-un-poids-lourd.php\">La Presse<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She was taken to hospital, conscious, with several broken bones and is in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Riding home up the Main every day, I am often stressed by the traffic gunning to get past, yet hesitant to ride too close to the fast turnover parking on the right. And there are swarms of cyclists in the same position. Will this city one day have bike paths where cyclists actually go (eg. St. Laurent), or only where someone wants them to be (eg. Clark)?<\/p>\n<p>Wishing you a speedy recovery, mysterious 22-year old woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Patrick Sanfa\u00e7on, La Presse This morning, around 9am, a 22-year old woman was pulled under a delivery truck and tangled up in the twisted metal of her bike, reports La Presse. She was taken to hospital, conscious, with several broken bones and is in critical condition. Riding home up the Main every day, I<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/11\/13\/cyclist-evades-death-after-being-struck-by-delivery-truck-on-st-laurent\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Cyclist evades death after being struck by delivery truck on St. Laurent&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5006,"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":[7828,7839,31],"tags":[6,359,265,2060,74,4544],"class_list":["post-4734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","category-neighbourhoods","category-traffic","tag-cycling","tag-cyclist","tag-la-presse","tag-patrick-sanfacon","tag-the-main","tag-twisted-metal"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cyclist evades death after being struck by delivery truck on St. Laurent - 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\/2009\/11\/13\/cyclist-evades-death-after-being-struck-by-delivery-truck-on-st-laurent\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cyclist evades death after being struck by delivery truck on St. Laurent - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Photo: Patrick Sanfa\u00e7on, La Presse This morning, around 9am, a 22-year old woman was pulled under a delivery truck and tangled up in the twisted metal of her bike, reports La Presse. 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