Elderly man on electric bike killed in traffic collision, Pinellas County FL
TrafficAn elderly man riding an electric bike was killed in a traffic collision near Seminole Boulevard, Florida. He was riding without a helmet and traveling in the wrong direction on the road when he was struck by a car. The incident occurred around 9 a.m. The man was around 81 or 82 years old.
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Transcript:
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Yeah, he passed away yesterday.
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Really?
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Yeah, I just read about it.
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It was shocking.
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He was on an e-bike.
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Uh,
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he's on one of these scooter, electric scooters,
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and got hit by a car.
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Really?
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That's number 25.
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Oh, that's number 25? Yes, sir.
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Oh, well, yeah, that's too bad, man.
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Um,
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yeah, rather unfortunate.
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Yeah, he wasn't wearing a helmet, and he was driving the wrong way on the road.
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So, not to blame him, but I mean,
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it's not a good idea to do either of those things around here.
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I believe he was 81.
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Yeah, I think he just turned 82.
00:53
Okay.
00:57
Well, that's too bad.
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We thank you for the news.
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And so it ended up with 25 people,
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25 license camps, saying the same thing.
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If he was doing something wrong, that was him.
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What's that?
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If was somebody doing something wrong, that was him.
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Yeah,
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yeah, that's too bad.
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He was really nice.
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We got along just fun.
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I'd talk to him out here.
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I'd talk to him on the CB sometimes.
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He went by Tumbleweed on the CB radio.
01:42
Yeah.
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But yeah, you can't, you can't do that around here.
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I can't imagine.
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That's why I stopped riding him overcycled.
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I got hit too many times.
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Why, you know, Roanac bicycles, and I'm thinking about acquiring another bike.
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And what I do, I don't usually ride it up on Port Street North.
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What I do is go a half a block over and go through the back of the parking area because it's wide and you can see it well.
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And you just stop every street and carefully cross every street.
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It's much safer that way.
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Can I hear that?
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No, when did it happen?
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I think it was yesterday morning.
02:57
I think it was yesterday morning around 9 o'clock.
03:00
Oh, it was probably in, uh,
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Settano?
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Yeah, it was off of Seminole Boulevard, not very far from where he lived.
03:10
Oh, okay.
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That's too bad, thanks for telling me.
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Yeah, yeah, I got, some of my friends were texting me about it.
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I got some messages when I woke up this morning, said, had you heard about it? And I'd seen the story on the news.
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They talked about it on the news,
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but I didn't know that that was him.
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And I looked up the story and that's who it was.
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Yeah,
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too bad.
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But it is a good warning.
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You've got to be careful around here because it's dangerous.
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And yeah, if you're gonna be on one of those things, I would definitely be wearing a helmet.
03:55
That's uh,
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yeah.
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Was there electric bike or electric, excuse me?
04:03
Yeah, it was one of those electric, electric bikes.
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Okay.
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I said in the article he was going northbound, I forget,
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but he was going in the wrong way.
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He was either going northbound in the southbound lane or he was going southbound in the northbound lane.
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Seminole Blvd, Florida
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