Sometimes you have to just scratch your head a wonder what some people are thinking, if at all.
On Thursday four people where hurt when a pedicab Slammed Into a Taxi in Brooklyn when coming off the Williamsburg Bridge, on a trip that started in Times Square, a trip of about 3 miles.
I have seen pedicab's in Ybor back when I still drove for United cab and wondered how safe they where, but driving in and around Ybor is one thing, and driving on a bridge is another, but most of those trips where short, such as taking people to there car.
The Williamsburg Bridge is very much like our Sunshine Skyway, high in the middle and low at each end, which means when you get over the hump its all downhill from there, and the driver loaded down with 3 passengers could not control his speed and hit the Taxi.
The driver got the worst of it, he flew over the taxi on impact and is in Bellevue Hospital in serious condition.
Its so typical, but Fridays paper asked if there should be tougher laws regulating pedicabs, yeah the horse is out of the barn so lets lock the door.
You can read the original story in the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/nyregion/11pedicab.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion
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