"We're people, too," Rainer said. "We're not objects in the road, we're not obstacles that you need to hurry up and get around. We're human beings. We have families who care about us, too."
As a bicyclist who knows the white knuckle, narrow stretch of Henrico County’s Osborne Turnpike where an SUV driver struck two riders, killing one, Del. Rodney Willett, D-Henrico, wanted to
Alcohol, distraction or speeding were the most deadly factors for pedestrians and cyclists in Virginia for at least the past three years. Those factors contributed to nearly 3 in 4 pedestrian deaths and 2 in 3 cyclist deaths between Jan. 1 and Nov. 30.