Mourning Lance David: More than 100 gather at crash site today; West Seattle ride planned Tuesday

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(Photo by @bpsnyder, via Twitter)
Two and a half days after the bicycle/truck crash that killed 54-year-old Lance David, about 100 people gathered this afternoon where it happened, at East Marginal Way and Hanford, in his honor. Many rode from his workplace, Expeditors International:

(This and subsequent photos by WSB’s Patrick Sand)
Mr. David was on one of the five Bike-to-Work teams at Expeditors, according to Don Brubeck of West Seattle Bike Connections, who also observed: “Mr. David worked in the freight shipping industry. Just like the truck driver. I hope it will help the community understand that this is not ‘us’ vs. ‘them.’ It’s all ‘us.’ A bunch of people who work in jobs that are dependent on the port ride a bike to get to work. Bike riders depend on the port for jobs, and those companies have employees who ride bikes.” Many of those at this afternoon’s gathering signed a shirt with the company logo:

It was then put on the utility pole holding the ‘ghost bike’ placed at the crash site Wednesday night.

WS Bike Connections and WS Greenways are organizing a memorial ride from Seacrest on Tuesday (May 7, 5:30 pm, full details here). It’ll be some time before police put out a final report on the crash; their initial findings are included in our Thursday report, which also details some of the safety concerns at the scene and the discussion at Wednesday night’s monthly meeting of the Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board.

themightyrabbit May 3, 2013 (5:33 pm)

please add link (“full details here”) to the may 7, 5:30pm ride. I see no link. thank you.

WSB May 3, 2013 (5:49 pm)

fixed.

LS May 3, 2013 (8:46 pm)

Anyone who works on Harbor Island knows that at times the trucks have total disregard for others and even red stop lights. In the area where this tragedy occurred, something like this was bound to happen.

MrsL May 3, 2013 (10:20 pm)

Hi! The link to Expeditors International does not go to the company website but rather the photo above it. Thanks for this story!

WSB May 3, 2013 (11:03 pm)

copy-and-paste just not my friend today. apologies. fixing.

Mke May 4, 2013 (11:28 am)

If we can ever get our city to approve building a dedicated bike/ped pathway (similar to the Sammamish trail), I think it would be nice to dedicate it to Lance David. I’m a car commuter, but I love bicycling too (bus would take over 2 hours each way for me with 3 transfers vs. 40 min by car). I grew up right by the Sammamish trail and used it a ton, one summer commuting to my bicycle sales job in Redmond. It’s great to have a dedicated area that separates bicycle/ped/horses from motorized traffic. Not only is it safer, it’s actually faster for bicycles to not deal with constant intersection stops, etc. I would gladly put my tax dollars to work building a dedicated trail system that flows from the South end of Alki across the Seattle waterfront into Magnolia/QA/Ballard. Along with the Water Taxi, I think this would make it feasible for people working downtown to have a safe alternative to using car/bus transport.