White is not the only high-level cyclist to die in Colorado in recent years. In 2020, Clif Pro Team racer Ben Sonntag was killed by a driver while on a training ride outside Durango. That driver was sentenced to serve jail time in late 2021. In 2021, U.S. masters champion Gwen Inglis was killed by a driver outside Lakewood, Colorado.
I used to be the type of person who would be quite anal about “no cycling on sidewalks!”.
But after being a cyclist for the past year, I fully support cyclists using the sidewalk when the roads aren’t safe enough.
Those sidewalks often don’t have pedestrians on them anyway, since they are in very car-centric (or truck-centric!) areas.
Cyclists die much more often per km cycled on the sidewalk compared to the road.