Family and friends gather to remember Calgary cyclist killed by impaired driver
It’s been almost one year to the day that Jose Perez was killed when he was struck by an impaired driver while riding his bicycle near McKenzie Meadows Golf Club in southeast Calgary.
It was around 8:00 p.m. on August 8, 2020, that Perez was hit by a pickup truck that had just exited the parking lot of the golf club and began heading east on McKenzie Meadows Drive.The driver – 26-year-old Joseph Johnson – is alleged to have crossed the solid yellow line into westbound lanes, where he hit Perez.
Saturday’s gathering was also a way for the family to show the dangerous consequences that drunk driving can have. Denise Dubyk of MADD Calgary says gatherings like Saturday’s evoke not only heartache for the families impacted, but also anger that someone chose to get behind the wheel while intoxicated, despite the many alternatives to doing so.
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