Tag: karlyn beer
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Karlyn Beer: ‘We’re all sharing the road. Let’s be on the same team’
Karlyn Beer, who we spoke with over the weekend shortly after she was struck by an apparently drunk driver on Westlake Ave, went on KOMO News to share her story. Her hand still bandaged after her thumb was severed at the nail in the collision, she brought of a message of calmness and care for…
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Longtime bike commuter left with severed thumb after drunk driver hit her on Westlake, is glad it wasn’t worse
Karlyn Beer was biking north on Westlake Ave Friday evening when a drunk driver made a left turn directly in front of her. “I slammed on my brakes of course, but plowed into the side of him,” she said via phone Saturday, still recovering from the trauma the night before. “The top of my thumb…
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