… I hate and loathe that Sherry got crashed into. What’s also galling is that, welp, if they’d been riding more like our horribly untidy and rude group last night, *maybe* the driver would have been yanked from his/her ozone (or might have done worse, who knows).
It was on the news last night – and guess what? It was a *crash.* To wit: “CHAMPAIGN COUNTY–Witnesses are still shaken up. They can’t believe someone would leave the scene of a crash while their friend was lying in the middle of the road. The crash happened around 9:30 Monday morning on Sadorus Road just west of Tolono. The rider is recovering.”
The story actually conveyed that cycling was somethign healthy adults (of a wide range of ages) could be expected to do.
Urbana-Champaign Cycling Ventures 
It’s an awful thing, to happen, but I do see your point on the commentary.