Kelly Wallace, 1983-2007 - News - The Phoenix
Kelly Wallace was killed on May 6, after her bike was hit by a car in a crosswalk at the intersection of Cambridge Street and Harvard Avenue, in Allston. Near that spot, a stark white “ghost bike” stands in her memory, adorned with handwritten notes and a profusion of blooming flowers.
It’s the second fatal bicycle accident in Boston in a month. But no newspaper besides the Eagle-Tribune, from near Wallace’s hometown of Methuen, seemed to notice. Why?
Because here in the Boston area people on bikes are very low on the totem pole. Drivers aren't taught or compelled to share the road, and I imagine there must be a tax-base issue here somewhere... It's disgusting that so little coverage is given when riders get killed - it only reinforces the attitude that riders aren't worth more than dirt and are merely in the way of cars.
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