Eyewitness: Hit by a Truck on Graves St.

Outside in the October chill there was a commotion. A large truck had just struck a bicyclist on Graves St. A crowd gathered, little kids tittered about, and a man lay on the pavement, not moving. A police officer cradled his head, another man in uniform went to the back of the ambulance to take out the stretcher. The man didn’t move, couldn’t move.

The boys came running up past me, toward three more girls, all the same height. These little people were all under five feet. They chatted and decided to leave in a group.

I walked back to my ofice, thinking about the story in the paper about encouraging biking, to save gas. I guess getting hit by trucks is just one of the hazards.