A ghost bike

A ghost bike has appeared in Amherst:



It is spray-painted white all over . . .



wakanomori explained to me: ghost bikes are a memorial for when a bicyclist is killed by a motor vehicle. There is a website that tells a little more.

As it happens, the ninja girl and I passed by that spot just after the crash occurred, though we didn't realize what exactly had happened at the time. We only saw that emergency vehicles and police cars were swarming, and that blood was pooled on the ground. Not a sigh...