By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com
When will it end?
2020 has been painful enough. And on Dec. 10, an impaired truck driver on meth killed five cyclists 60 miles south of Las Vegas.
LVSportsBiz.com has reported on the impaired Arizona driver who drove his box truck into a group of cyclists, killing bicyclists Aksoy Ahmet, Mike Murray, Gerrard Nieva, Erin Ray and Tom Trauger on U.S. highway 95. The driver, accused of 14 felonies, is in the Clark County Detention Center and had his court hearing postponed this week to Dec. 30.
How do we stop the carnage on the roads? I would think education and awareness on the front end, continued driver training in the middle and punishments and penalties on the back end.
Toward that goal of building awareness and changing the way motorists drive on our roads, LVSportsBiz.com has assembled a group of recent interview videos, including four sessions I had during the past week.
Plus, there’s a very powerful video put together by bicyclist Terri Buryanov, which starts it off.
Andrew Bennett, public information officer of Nevada Department of Public Safety.
Clark County Commissioner Justin Jones
Clark County DA Steve Wolfson
Las Vegas bicycle leader Pat Treichel, Ghost Bikes Las Vegas
You can donate donate to the Las Vegas cyclist memorial fund here.