FZ1inTX
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This lady rode a big Victory cruiser. She was very experienced and has put many thousands of miles on bikes. How this one day got out of control, we may never know... I was just talking to her last week. She'd boasted about the prior weekend with the northern NH run doing 5 of the 7 notches and 1100 miles in two days with her friends. She also had just picked up a complete set of Gerbing heated clothes so she could ride most of the year because she loved two wheels just that much. We were told she'd passed less than one hour after I had gotten the call from Norm about his son. Monday was just a heartbreaking day.
Police identify victim in fatal cycle crash
By ERIC FRANCIS
HERALD CORRESPONDENT - Published: October 6, 2010
PLYMOUTH — Police have released the name of the New Hampshire woman who was killed Sunday on the Kingdom Road stretch of the Tyson-Reading Road when she lost control of her motorcycle and slid underneath an oncoming car.
Authorities said Lucy Myers, 56, of Barrington, N.H., was in cardiac arrest once rescuers from Plymouth and Ludlow lifted the Pontiac G6 off her and, despite a resuscitation effort that continued in a Ludlow ambulance all the way to the hospital in Springfield, she was pronounced dead on arrival at that facility’s emergency room.
Myers was riding west from Reading with a couple of male friends who were on their own bikes heading through a series of S-curves and had reached within a mile of the Route 100 intersection with the landmark Echo Lake Inn when the collision occurred, state police Sgt. Barbara Zonay explained on Tuesday.
“We don’t think she was going very fast, but she hit an oncoming car and got killed. It was very sad,” Zonay said.
Police said the first motorcycle had already made it past the car when Myers suddenly crossed the centerline of the road into the path of a Pontiac G6 driven by Elizabeth Ferencak, 53, of Wilmington, N.C., which immediately collided with the bike just before 3:30 p.m.
The car ended up on top of Myers and her motorcycle, prompting members of the Plymouth Volunteer Fire Department and Plymouth First Response to call for help from the Ludlow Fire Department, which sent their heavy rescue truck, which is equipped with lifting airbags that were inflated underneath the wreckage to allow access to the trapped woman.
“They did a super job,” Plymouth Assistant Fire Chief Larry Lynds said of the rescuers Sunday afternoon. “They were fast about it. They acted like they knew 100 percent what they were after and everything went well for that type of accident.”
The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Air Response Team medical helicopter had been called in from New Hampshire and landed at nearby Coby Pond but, because patients in cardiac arrest are not flown, the DHART medics jumped into the ambulance and assisted with the effort during the emergency transport to the hospital, police said.
Zonay said neither speed, nor alcohol, nor drugs appeared to be involved in the fatal collision although she noted, “The investigation isn’t complete yet but it appears this is just a real tragic accident. We are still talking to people. We still have a good deal of followup to do just to make sure it is just a straightforward accident.”
Ferencak, the driver of the car, and her husband, William, 55, were also transported by a Ludlow Ambulance to Springfield Hospital for precautionary observation and were released later Sunday afternoon.