Ghost Bike for Matilde Blais

A30 - Ghost Bike for Matilde Blais

This Ghost Bike commemorates Matilde Blais who was 33 when she was crushed by the rear wheels of a crane truck on April 28th, 2014 while riding a Bixi shared bike through the St-Denis Street underpass in Montreal. The coroner’s inquest found she was not at all at fault and that side guards on the truck may have saved her life. The inquest led to some improvements being made to try to improve the safety of cyclists at underpasses, but much remains to be done. Original slide taken with a tripod-mounted Heidoscop using Provia 100F exposed at 1 second at f25.