The bike lanes built in the district of Pla has claimed new victims among neighbors, especially among older people who never quite get used to this new architectural element, a curb with a height of about 15 centimeters which the council has chosen for areas where traffic density is more when developing new cycling route in the city, and completed by 80%. In plaza of Estella to Doctor Sapena is a stretch which since it was built, less than two months have fallen from ten to fifteen people, according to witnesses who claim that daily occur in at least a couple of brushes with the segregated bike lane that considered a real architectural barrier, as occurs with curbs cyclists in the area of \u200b\u200bHarold Parres and Inmaculada del Pla, located about 250 meters away, where in November there was more than a dozen of falls among older people, as reported by this newspaper, with cases as a woman with a broken nose, another with a broken wrist and a third with stitches in his eyebrow and dizziness.
In Estella square can still be seen on the ground remains of blood that left a woman who fell on Sunday and had to be evacuated by ambulance. "He threw the nose over a liter of blood, surely broke the wall," said Francisco Javier Lozano yesterday, a resident of the area whose mother, 72, crashed at the same point a couple of weeks. "There was a blow to the ribs, was at home still and seemed fine but suddenly suffered a swollen and I had to take emergency." The same Sunday two people fell, including another woman who witnesses say suffered damage to the teeth and was bleeding. Joan Pérez Lledó
feel almost every day to take a coffee on the terrace of the ice cream shop in the square and from there have been numerous incidents with the curb. "Almost every day someone falls, more or less serious, I have seen at least eight. Next door is a zebra crossing but the majority are older people who are accustomed to crossing always around, go, do not expect , fall and do not put their hands as many are hit in the mouth. It's amazing what happens but I think the track is wrong, would have to put something to indicate that it is there, for example, an entire row of pins green plastic. It makes you want to start that. " The neighbor saw a "grandfather" was a gap in the head that kept him to give points and several cases in which the ambulance had to travel to the Place de l'Etoile to attend to the injured. The ice cream works
Dolores del Valle, which has been used to seeing declines in the curb lane, bike, such as a client of 60 years or so has problems in the ribs. "You can not work and are having treatment," he said. In your opinion, should be aware of the elderly used to cross here to go to the pedestrian crossing, to also prevent abuses, "but as it is difficult should put a vallita or something to be better signposted."
Many of the injured from falls have been the first Aid in the pharmacy White Barbero, also located in the nearby Doctor Sapena. "They come here especially on Saturdays, when the health center, is a few meters, is closed. If not, go there," said the pharmacist. The establishment has cured for at least five people, the first of which came when they put the curb, about two months ago. "At least now painted white-and yellow-and looks better but at first did not have that," dij0. An employee said to have served on all shots in the knees and gaps.
Across the Pla Parres with Father Harold Esplá, in the same area in November fell three older women, crashed Maria Teresa a few weeks ago when the family Sellés was to withdraw the car they had parked in front of a raised curb the cycle lane. "I was storing things in the trunk, I went to the passenger seat, I remembered the curb and fell. I hit on the chin and I dug my teeth into his lip." And he suffered dizziness. The woman asks if you can not remove the bicycle lanes in height, at least "take concrete and cement to match the driveway and paint it white or red to make it look good." Meanwhile, Frances de Val, 75, who broke his wrist falling in the lane Inmaculada del Pla, no longer wears the sling but according to his sister, he has been the hand "a little crooked" and has severe pain. Source
INFORMATION-J Hernandez
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