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Editor, News-Register:
My life took a sudden turn for the worse about a month ago, Sept. 7, when a woman riding a bike with a cell phone to her ear on Wheeling's Heritage Trail did not hear me say "passing on the left" and came over into me, causing an accident that led to a firetruck, ambulance, an ER visit, surgery, a week in the hospital, a bad case of bronchitis and pain and inconvenience.
I have been thinking for some time, as I often do when I use the trail in Warwood, that it is becoming an unsafe place. Some people seem to live in their own little world and don't care about others around them. Bike passings without warning can be jolting, and with motorized bikes and now scooters, I wonder if it might get more dicey. I hope the city "trail keepers" take a hard look to perhaps refresh the signs (more, and bigger) to emphasize the rules of the trail and maybe send a policeman on a bike sometimes.
We need to take better care of each other so that something like my mishap doesn't happen to someone else.
Margaret Brennan
Wheeling