87-Year-Old Man Wedges Car Into Bike Lane On Way To DMV

Here is how not to use a bicycle lane: An 87-year-old Marin County man was driving to the Department of Motor Vehicles office when he mistook a narrow concrete-walled bicycle-pedestrian path for Highway 101, and then he just kept driving until his car was wedged so tightly between the cement barriers that a tow truck had to yank the Toyota out. Is this symbolic of the increasingly hostile urban turf wars between automobile drivers and bicyclists?

Maybe! Listen to what this guy said, after all the trouble he caused: “They should block that off, that passageway.”

Raymond Pierce will have a mandatory re-evaluation of his driving privileges, under California law. There were no injuries to people, but the bike lane and the old man’s pride both suffered terribly.

Photo by California Highway Patrol, Marin County.