Bicyclist Struck by Drunk Driver
According to Scott Herhold of the San Jose Mercury News in California on Jan. 21 a 48-year-old Menlo Park woman nearly died when a truck hit her titanium bicycle. According to police, a 1987 red Toyota pickup truck driven by a Hillsborough contractor, Walter F. Sorensen, 76, crossed over two lanes and struck the woman, dragging her underneath the truck wheels. She could have died except that the Toyota hit an asphalt curb, jarring its wheels upward and sending Levenson 35 feet into a gully. Levenson's injuries included a jaw broken in two places, a windpipe crushed, ribs broken, multiple spinal fractures, a broken pelvis, a detached sole of the foot, and many other scrapes and bruises. It took 10 surgeons nine hours to repair the damage.
