#Speed and strength call to arms helmet drivers

He crossed, probably, in the crosswalk because he’d been taught he’d be protected there.

A Driver Killed a Teen Cyclist Without Consequence.

She would always drive him across and drop him at the Speedway gas station on the far side so he could save face and ride the rest of the way to his friends waiting for him behind the high school. Andrew’s mom, Diana, was the last to cave. The kids had lobbied for it because they went everywhere on their bikes in the summer and waiting on their parents to take them across was an affront to their liberty.

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#Speed and strength call to arms helmet drivers

Drivers had hit a lot of people on Hempstead Turnpike in the last decade, an average of three a month. The street was a dark presence, a real monster. For years, the boys’ parents had driven them across the eight-lane thoroughfare that lay like a dividing line down the middle of the residential neighborhoods where the families lived. His friends Aiden and Ethan were already there. A thunderstorm had just rolled through, but the sun was back out and all eight lanes gleamed in the light like bright teeth.Īndrew was headed to Target. Thirteen-year-old Andrew Alati began biking southbound across Hempstead Turnpike on the afternoon of June 30, 2019.