Tinley Park

This case wasn't an accident. It was the predictable outcome of street design that prioritizes the convenience of drivers over the safety of vulnerable road users.

DeMott was struck from behind last January by a 93-year-old driver while he was biking home from work on Harlem Avenue.

A 93-year-old driver fatally struck DeMott as he cycled home from work in the southwest suburb last January.

In the spring of 2011, there were two fatalities with several parallels. In each case a teenage boy who was doing something illegal collided with an innocent female victim, killing her. One perpetrator was sentenced to more than three decades in prison; the other received no jail time at all. A difference between the cases, which may have played a role in the wildly disparate consequences of their actions, was that while the first teen was in a CTA station, the second was behind the wheel of a car.