Hit-and-run death of rising US horn player
NewsA horn student at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, David Dickerson was hit by a vehicle while riding his bicycle on May 31. Rushed to hospital in a coma, he was showing small signs of recovery but sadly died this weekend.
A GoFundMe appeal has been set up to help his family cover the heavy medical expenses.
David Caines Burnett writes: Dear colleagues and friends, it is with deep remorse that I share the news of David Dickerson’s passing. David was good friend and great guy! I’m so glad we had the opportunity to do so many wonderful performances together. My sincere condolences go out to his family and his countless friends and colleagues. Rest In Paradise, David.
To those that didn’t know, unfortunately, David was riding his bike when he was the victim of a hit and run. David had been in a coma since the accident and we were all hoping that he would have pulled through this terrible accident.
Sad how it costs money to die in this goddamn country.
I thought I had seen the bottom of aimless aggressive middle aged male frustration on this website’s comment section, but this takes the cake as the most depraved comment ever posted here. Not sure what the moderators here are even doing at all. I am not sure how one’s brain goes through the process of formulating the decision to post a profoundly tasteless knee-jerk political reaction to a news item about the tragic death of a promising young musician. Smh
If this had happened in England, where it takes 90 minutes on average for an ambulance to arrive for emergency care, he would have died on the spot. In San Franciso, nearly 90 percent of ambulance calls arrive in 10 minutes.
Nuffield Trust:
“Category 1 ambulance calls are those that are classified as life-threatening and needing immediate intervention and/or resuscitation, e.g. cardiac or respiratory arrest. The national standard sets out that all ambulance trusts must respond to Category 1 calls in 7 minutes on average and respond to 90% of Category 1 calls in 15 minutes.
The average Category 1 response time improved from 7 minutes 37 seconds in April 2018 to 6 minutes 54 seconds in May 2019. Response times fluctuated for the following two years, with the 7-minute target last being met in April 2021, with an average response time of exactly 7 minutes.
Since then, Category 1 response times have deteriorated. An average response time of over 9 minutes was first recorded in September 2021, at 9 minutes 2 seconds. Since then, most months have seen average response times of over 9 minutes. In December 2022, the response time crossed 10 minutes, the worst performance on record. The 90thcentile target was first not met in July 2021 and has not been met since.”
Not as good as it should be, but nothing like your ridiculous figure.
It is not a country Sir, Madame. It’s a business enterprise masquerading as a “country.”
3 days later, it will which celeb has the nicest tooshie, who makes good cookies, and which billionaire is the most cool….
Roughly 30 million Americans of all ages had no health insurance in 2021. That’s 9.2% of the population. For black Americans it’s 12%. It was 20% for blacks before the Affordable Care Act was passed.
Now that the pandenic is over, about one million people have been removed from Medicaid.
Even with insurance, the average cost of giving birth is $3000. My wife has had several students or their spouses give birth. It didn’t cost them any thing, and they immediately got a tax break and a monthly sum from the government for the child called Kindergeld. The American students always marveled at how they could have babies and it didn’t cost anything.
They charge you for being born, they charge you for living, and they charge you for dying. They’d have a heaven and hell charge if they could figure out a way.
“They’d have a heaven and hell charge if they could figure out a way.”
Please don’t give anyone any (more) bad ideas.
Well said, but in France you would be charged to breathe and drive too. Imagine they invented in the past a “doors and windows” tax…. everything supposedly free with social security has to be paid for by someone ( by middle class of course)….
It’s all dreadfully sad to think about, to be honest.
My condolences to Mr. Dickerson’s family. May he rest in peace.
So tragic. Sounds like he likely wasn’t wearing a helmet. When will society learn that a $20 helmet with MIPS can and will save your life! Just terribly sad and tragic.
We just don’t have any details of this tragedy. Meantime, bike riding remains extremely dangerous, particularly in large cities.
I note that a competitor in some European bike-athon went over into a ravine and was killed just recently.
Yes, bike riding does remain dangerous. Here in metro New York, it is a daily news item that someone has been killed, badly injured or hit while on a bicycle/moped by a car. But that’s no news to anyone who drives a car, rides a motorcycle or bicycle or moped. There are too many drivers of all types who think they’re in the Indy 500 or a Formula 1 vehicle the second they get behind the wheel. Come to think of it, even pedestrians aren’t safe on the sidewalk even when they are observing the proper rules of walking.
The “competitor in some European bike-athon” was a first-class professional cyclist, and he was killed while descending at speed a very dangerous stage of the Tour de Suisse, which is a preparatory event for the Tour de France; you may have heard of that little “bike-athon”. A danger level not really comparable with riding a bike in town then, or at least it shouldn’t be, but I’ve seen so many clowns riding bikes in London traffic without proper headgear or footwear (even flip-flops, I ask you!), texting (one or both hands off), ignoring red lights, passing lorries on the left and all the rest that it’s no surprise that there are so many deaths on the road. And that’s excluding those caused by drivers…
“A GoFundMe appeal has been set up to help his family cover the heavy medical expenses.”
Sickening. Only in the US empire. Yet, endless money for endless wars.
Yes, only in this country do we help people in need. I know David. I actually saw him a few hours before this tragic accident. I had no issues giving to his fund. What’s sickening is people like you sitting far away making comments about people & their lives, yet you don’t know a darn thing. God help you if you are ever in a similar situation and need to count on the kindness of others. It’s called karma.
Nice to see so many people climbing on a dead body to bash the US.
Yah, reality is challenging for many of them.
Where is there anything printed about whether this human being was or wasn’t wearing a helmet? Shame on these commenters. Our condolences to his loved ones.
We can’t have universal health insurance in this country because of some sort of freedom fears.
A map I’m looking at indicates the American Southwest (basically CA, NV, AZ, NM, TX) plus LA and FL having a notably higher hit-and-run rate than the rest of the country. About 2000+ fatal hit-and-runs per year in the US.
I predict increasing bicycle victims as more people turn to bicycling. 25 year ago, when I went out biking I almost never crossed paths with anyone using a bicycle for ordinary transportation. Today I almost always do.
B/c it was never really a country per se. It’s a business whereby the populace is simply there to pay taxes and try to get rich. Hustlers.
David was an amazing person and musician. I performed with him often and worked at several festivals mentoring young musicians. a senseless and sad loss of a wonderful human being