In the month of August there were two separate bike accidents in the same spot on the Boise Greenbelt. One left a woman with serious injuries, while the other died from her injuries.
- In August, two bike accidents in the same spot prompt the city to fix the problem.
- The woman hit a section where tree roots had pushed up the path.
( Below is the transcript from the broadcast story)
“We would always hug each other and tell each other we loved each other and right when we got on our bikes, she told me that she loved me which made feel good,” said Dave Simpson.
It started as a fun day for Dave and Donna Simpson. Their good friend’s son just started his freshman year at Boise State and after taking lots of pictures around campus they headed down the Greenbelt. The group stopped at the 9/11 Memorial and then stopped to enjoy the surfers at the Whitewater Park. Moments later, everything would change.
A member of their biking group, a former firefighter and first responder explains what happened. “They started yelling at my name, I wasn’t sure who crashed. I flipped around real quick and came back here, and it was Donna with the bike laying on her legs. I knew it was a tragic accident .I knew there wasn’t going to be a good outcome,” a family friend told me.