Tag: mike wang
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The true cost of Move Seattle
Mike Wang was biking home to his family one evening in July 2011 when a man driving an SUV made a quick left turn and killed him on Dexter Ave. It’s impossible to fill a hole in the world the size of Mike Wang, but through all the tears and pain and anger that followed,…
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City finally planning road safety project on Dexter between Denny and Mercer
Dexter Ave may never go back to being the dangerous, super wide street it was before major construction began a few months ago between Mercer and Denny in South Lake Union. The city is planning a road safety redesign for the street, which is a major bike route and the scene of several serious collisions…
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City will study improvements to notorious section of Dexter between Denny and Mercer
Dexter Ave is among the busiest bike streets in the city. Unfortunately, it has also been the scene of far too many collisions, including a very serious one July 25 and, of course, the devastating collision that took the life of Mike Wang in 2011. Following Wang’s death, the city painted a couple feet of…
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Driver who killed Mike Wang gets maximum penalty + His widow Claire’s letter to the judge
Erlin Garcia-Reyes was sentenced to 41 months in prison today, the maximum penalty for felony hit and run. He pleaded guilty last month to striking Mike Wang in the Dexter bike lane and killing him just over one year ago. Claire Allen, Wang’s widow, sent us the powerful letter she wrote to the sentencing judge:…
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Times op-ed: Remember Mike Wang by rethinking road behavior
As the one year anniversary of Mike Wang’s death passes, the courts are working to decide the sentence for the man who pleaded guilty to the hit and run that took his life. Meanwhile, Doug Palm from PATH (where Wang worked) and Jamie Cheney (Executive Director of Commute Seattle) co-wrote an op-ed for the Seattle…
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Mike Wang’s widow Claire seeks sentencing opinions for hit-and-run driver
Claire Allen, the widow of Mike Wang, is gathering community letters to send to the court where the man who pleaded guilty to the hit and run that killed her husband will be sentenced next month. Erlin Garcia-Reyes—a 28-year-old native of Honduras who worked at Blue C Sushi, according to charging documents—pleaded guilty earlier this…
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