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When he was not delivering mail for the U.S. Postal Service or spending time with his family, Kevin Wilson loved to ride his road bike out into the backcountry, putting miles on a frame similar to the one revealed Sunday morning at the edge of Dehesa Road near the Singing Hills Golf Club at Sycuan.
Painted stark white from its handlebars to its wheels, this two wheeler was not meant for riding, explained his widow, Nancy Cavanaugh-Wilson, but rather would serve as a monument to a few seconds of carelessness that have caused endless pain. Wilson was 56 when he died.
“When people driving by see it, I want them to be reminded how dangerous this road is, and I want people to be reminded of Kevin,” Cavanaugh-Wilson said.
Family and friends gathered with members of the advocacy groups Families for Safe Streets San Diego and Circulate San Diego Sunday on what would have been Kevin’s 61st birthday, to unveil a ghost bike at the spot where a driver ran him down shortly after 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 20, 2020.
Ghost bikes, explained Laura Keenan, co-founder of Families for Safe Streets, are part of a nationwide effort to make sure that such tragedies do not just disappear from the public consciousness after their immediate aftermath is swept away.
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