Oh this sucks...Anybody heard anything about who the rider is? ("well known in the area, wearing helmet"):

http://www.signonsandiego.com/...441-bn16cyclist.html

I'm annoyed that the photo caption reads 'collision "between" bike and car' as though it
was anything less than one sided.


Woman cyclist, 40, killed in Solana Beach hit-run

By Debbi Farr BakerUNION-TRIBUNE BREAKING NEWS TEAM2:41 p.m. March 16, 2007
DEBBI FARR BAKER / Union-TribuneDeputies investigate the fatal colision between a bicyclist and a car on the popular Highway 101 route today.SOLANA BEACH – A 40-year-old woman riding a bicycle along the coast highway in Solana Beach Friday was hit and killed by an SUV whose driver failed to stop. Authorities said the driver was arrested at his home in Escondido an hour and a half later.
The woman, a Solana Beach resident, was riding on North Highway 101 and was near Solana Vista Drive just before noon when she was run down by the SUV, whose driver veered into the bike lane, said sheriff's Sgt. Randy Webb.
“He clipped her and did not stop,” Webb said.
The impact threw the woman against a small tree, Webb said. Her crushed bicycle ended up on the sidewalk some 70 feet away.
A doctor who was passing by attended to the woman, but she died minutes after the accident.
Webb said the crash was witnessed by a senior volunteer with the sheriff's department who followed the driver of the older red Toyota 4-Runner and called in with the license number.
That number led police to the SUV's owner's address in Escondido. Escondido police officers went to the home and took a man believed to be the driver into custody about 1:30 p.m., said sheriff's Lt. Phil Brust. They planned to transfer him to the custody of the sheriff's department, Brust said.
Webb said the woman, whose name has not been released, was well known in the area and frequently went cycling along the highway. He said some of the firefighters summoned to the crash site also knew the woman.
She lived nearby and her husband came to the crash site.
Webb said she was wearing a helmet.
Parts of the vehicle were found at the crash site, including paint chips, a rear view mirror and the lens from the right headlight.The right lane of Highway 101 was shut down for the investigation.