ejgordon58@yahoo.com wrote in news:1180120862.769916.222790 @p47g2000hsd.googlegroups.com: > from abc7 - accident on Sand Hill west of 280 > http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=5338829 Does anyone have more information about this accident? Who was the victim? Which direction was he heading? Was the car entering or exiting the freeway?

> Does anyone have more information about this accident? Who was the > victim? > Which direction was he heading? Was the car entering or exiting the > freeway? Don't know any particulars about the accident itself, but did learn that the victim was a 67 year old male riding a Merlin. Channel 2 will have info on their news, and were looking for people at shops to interview. I didn't volunteer; tough to see how much good can come out of it. If "drafted" I would have said that bike/car accidents show the need for the concept of "complete streets" that League of American Bicyclists and CalBike have been pushing for the last couple of years. The idea that streets and intersections are designed with the needs of all users in mind. But at this point I don't know if this was a car coming off of 280 or what. I do know that the overpass is not my favorite place to ride; it's just not a whole lot of fun having cars moving fast on *both* sides of you. In my opinion, and I hadn't thought about this before now, the 280/Sand Hill and 280/Page Mill intersections both require some degree of traffic calming (ways to slow down cars). You don't see speed limits on overpasses, but I'm thinking you should. Perhaps 25 mph. I have no idea how you'd do it though; cars like to move very fast through that section of road. Perhaps a bit too radical, but maybe there should be timed stoplights at each end, such that you wouldn't get to where you're going any faster if you were going 25mph vs 40. --Mike Jacoubowsky Chain Reaction Bicycles www.ChainReaction.com Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA

http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=5125 Killed cyclist identified as Rodney Smith of Portola Valley by David Boyce Rodney Smith of Portola Valley -- who with his wife, Mary, was a major donor to the town's open-space preservation efforts -- was killed Friday morning while cycling on Sand Hill Road when he was struck by a car driven by an elderly Woodside man. Smith, 67, was cycling on Sand Hill just west of Interstate 280 at about 9:40 a.m. when the accident occurred, the California Highway Patrol reported. Both vehicles were eastbound. Paramedics from the Menlo Park and Woodside fire protection districts treated Smith at the scene, but he was pronounced dead at 10:05 a.m., the CHP said. The driver, who the CHP said is in his 80s, was not injured. The San Mateo County Coroner's Office identified Smith Friday afternoon. Smith retired from positions as CEO and president of San Jose-based Altera Corp., a maker of programmable computer chips, according to an archived version of the company's Web site. In 2000, the Smiths gave $1 million to Portola Valley's Open Space Fund in an effort to clean up litter in the town. Smith was responsible for the "no littering" signs that are at the entrances to the town, according to Nancy Thompson, who has been on the Open Space Acquisition Advisory Committee since the late 1990s. The CHP report did not include information such as whether Smith was wearing a helmet or the speed of the vehicles. The CHP is asking witnesses to call Officer McDonough at 369-6261. Bay City News Service contributed to this report.