Jay Albert
Jay Albert
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Age: 52
Location:
in front of 226 Main Street
East Windsor. , CT
United States
From the 40 year plan blog
Local bicyclist Jay Albert, 52, died on July 1, 2012 after
22-year-old drunk driver Tara Sylvester’s car crushed him a day earlier,
in front of 226 Main Street, East Windsor.
When
Tony Cherolis and I rode our bicycles up there Tuesday, July 10, to
place a ghost bike in Jay Albert’s honor, we found no sign of an
accident – no sand on the ground from spilled fluids, no skid marks, no
broken pieces of taillight.
The accident that sent Albert to intensive care and then to an early
grave happened at 11:18 on a Saturday night. The neighbors hadn’t
settled into Saturday Night Live yet. The road hadn’t assumed a 4 a.m.
stillness.
Tara Sylvester had a few drinks, left whatever party or bar, and
zoomed northbound on Main Street. The 12-foot wide striped lanes,
designed for 50-mile an hour travel, don’t care about the speed. The
asphalt doesn’t feel pain. The nearby warehouses don’t understand death.
Albert did, but he pedaled southbound, and apparently was in the
wrong lane. Who’s to blame for his death? Police might have thought he
was, because officers only charged Sylvester with DUI.
Sylvester has retained counsel from the powerhouse criminal firm Santos and Santos, PC. She comes from cash. Her next court date
in Enfield is July 16, 2012. She was released from custody on $5,000
bond. A pittance, really. One wonders how she’s handling Jay Albert’s
death by drunk driver.
For cyclists like myself who read the news and say “there but for the
grace of God go I,” the response is a ghost bike. In the time it took
Tony and I to unload the ghost bike off his trailer, and figure out
which spot to place it, two bicyclists passed us by.
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Age: 52
Location:
in front of 226 Main Street
East Windsor. , CT
United States
From the 40 year plan blog
Local bicyclist Jay Albert, 52, died on July 1, 2012 after
22-year-old drunk driver Tara Sylvester’s car crushed him a day earlier,
in front of 226 Main Street, East Windsor.
When
Tony Cherolis and I rode our bicycles up there Tuesday, July 10, to
place a ghost bike in Jay Albert’s honor, we found no sign of an
accident – no sand on the ground from spilled fluids, no skid marks, no
broken pieces of taillight.
The accident that sent Albert to intensive care and then to an early
grave happened at 11:18 on a Saturday night. The neighbors hadn’t
settled into Saturday Night Live yet. The road hadn’t assumed a 4 a.m.
stillness.
Tara Sylvester had a few drinks, left whatever party or bar, and
zoomed northbound on Main Street. The 12-foot wide striped lanes,
designed for 50-mile an hour travel, don’t care about the speed. The
asphalt doesn’t feel pain. The nearby warehouses don’t understand death.
Albert did, but he pedaled southbound, and apparently was in the
wrong lane. Who’s to blame for his death? Police might have thought he
was, because officers only charged Sylvester with DUI.
Sylvester has retained counsel from the powerhouse criminal firm Santos and Santos, PC. She comes from cash. Her next court date
in Enfield is July 16, 2012. She was released from custody on $5,000
bond. A pittance, really. One wonders how she’s handling Jay Albert’s
death by drunk driver.
For cyclists like myself who read the news and say “there but for the
grace of God go I,” the response is a ghost bike. In the time it took
Tony and I to unload the ghost bike off his trailer, and figure out
which spot to place it, two bicyclists passed us by.