How sad this is. Condolences to the family.

Wear a helmet people.  

I was on Canal St on Wednesday, most cyclist's were not wearing helmets. A guy was even holding a soda in one hand!!

The problem is cars and trucks hitting people, not what they are wearing, as evidenced by the pedestrian killed on (the sidewalk of) Elizabeth Street and the bicyclist killed  yesterday by a US Postal Truck.  Her helmet did not help her.

Sokrates, a pedestrian can be killed by a motorist, sure, but not every collision is strong enough to be fatal. The same type of accident that wouldn't kill a pedestrian, might very well kill a cyclist because the latter is traveling through space at 10-20 times the speed of someone on foot. Think these things through before you post nonsense.

Easy, fellow, with your physics.  Both Deter and Dershowitz were traveling WITH the cars that killed them, which deflates your argument.

Wow, these are the most civilized comments I've ever seen on a Gothamist post. And in a post about a cyclist, no less! Bravo, people!

Hopefully they can turn this tragedy into something positive for the future. 

Maybe like a memorial ride to raise awareness of how dangerous the streets are or something like that.

People forget just how dangerous cars are in this city.  Sure, in this instance, Ray was riding a bike in traffic, something that most people can see as being dangerous.  

But just yesterday, a woman (pedestrian) was killed on the UWS by an Explorer backing up into a parking spot too quickly.   Like, today, as I was biking to work and approaching a red light, a truck behind me was honking to get out of the way, but, this was approaching a red light.  I prefer to cruise when approaching red lights instead of accelerating only to stop.  It's that mentality that kills people.  We all need to be more patient.  The Jaguar hit Ray in the midst of heavy stop-n-go traffic.  There's no reason for the Jaguar to be at any speed fast enough to cause damage in that type of traffic, unless, he was aggressively jostling for position in the middle of heavy traffic, which is a mentality we aught to try to curb. 

Did you actually use "like" in a written sentence? You gotta be kiddin' me, right?

My condolences to this man's family.

They are.  Read between the lines, they are donating his organs.

Memorial rides are nice and everything, but they don't do as much as donating organs.

Thank you for using this opportunity to share your thoughts on something that happened to you today. I am very moved by your story about a truck honking at you. My condolences. 

Thanks for being an asshole and purposefully misreading what I wrote.  

I don't know if you have ever written a bike in the city before, but, the attitude and impatience of drivers can be very scary.  There's few things more frightening than having a big truck aggressively honking behind you. I was fortunate that the truck driver didn't try to buzz and/or pass me, but, that frequently does happen, and it can be very scary.

What happened to Ray was an instance of that same mentality.  A driver, driving aggressively in an instance where the driver wouldn't save any time.  Because that guy wanted to "beat the red" only to be stopped again in heavy congestion, Ray Deter is dead.  If less drivers were so needlessly aggressive, we wouldn't have as many fatalities. The fact that the driver is going to get off scot-free, is totally fucked up.  But right, I'm the self-absorbed asshole, because sharing scary bike stories in a comment thread about a guy who was needlessly killed on bike is totally out-of-bounds. 

Thanks for the biker editorial, your description of your ride to work, and your advice to riders.  Some people just cannot let it rest.  So tiring. 

If it's so tiring, do everybody a favor and go lie down.  I don't think we need a self appointed comments section editor who focuses  more on other gothamist readers than on the topic of the story.   

My sympathy to the Deter family.  Hopefully, NYC will continue to make our streets safer and safer, so that preventable collisions like this will be rare, or hopefully non-existent. 

Yeah, and your comment on my comment doesn't fall into the "self-appointed comments section editor" category.  Your hypocrisy is boundless.  But hey, at least you put your sympathies in there, although it smells like a footnote.  And of course, you wrapped up your package with a nod to the cyclists of the city. Bravo.

so so sad :( I thought he would make it!!

Wait, is he brain dead?

Inference is not your specialty, I gather.

To Ray's family: I don't know how one finds comfort in such difficult times, but I surely hope that you will.

I was really hoping that he'd pull through. To Ray's family and the d.b.a. family, my sincerest condolences.