re: Bicyclist Hit by Motorist on Natchez Parkway. Video

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I only saw a snippet of the vid, so unless he was just passing the other cyclist it appears they were two abreast.

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“He’s never been in clips before. He’d never been in, he hadn’t biked since he was a kid. So I thought what a wonderful place to teach him how to bike. The Natchez Trace, where we were biking, you’re allowed to ride in your lane and it’s posted as such. So I thought that would be a good place for Tyler to start out.”

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“We rode single file almost all day. At the moment of that attack we were climbing a hill, we were almost done and he was coming up beside me to kind of take the lead.”

Goodman says the driver intentionally hit Noe and kept driving.

“He just decided rather through rage, or through something against us bikers, he just decided he wanted to take one of us out. I’ve had a lot of close calls but not somebody that was aiming at me.”

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Thousands of bikers frequent the parkway, where a number of signs are posted that say bikers may use the full lane.

“It’s a park, so it’s not a place you go to from Point A to Point B. The car is supposed to treat us like a car and go around us,” said Goodman.

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While Noe’s first reaction was that he is done with biking, Goodman wants to get him back out on a bike and even persuade him to still try for that Iron Man.

Goodman also told us someone from a bike company even reached out to offer Noe a bike. He was borrowing the one he was riding and it’s now destroyed.

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