Ghost bike placed for recent bicycle fatality in Holland
Sentinel Staff
The white bicycle is attached to a post and features Green s name and birthdate.
Green was killed in a crash on Tuesday, Feb. 16. He was traveling south on his bicycle on Waverly Road near Eighth Street when, just after 8:15 p.m., he was struck from behind by the driver of a vehicle also heading south. Green was struck a second time by another driver traveling in the same direction.
Green was transported by ambulance to Holland Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
It was the second fatal crash involving a bicycle on Waverly Road in the past four years. In January 2018, Johnathan Herlein was killed while riding his bicycle south on Waverly between 24th Street and 32nd Street. The vehicle driver told police he didn t see Herlein, who was wearing dark clothing, until right before hitting him.