very sad

I found out only today that on 5 July, Canadian mountaineering legend Hans Gmoser was killed in a cycling accident on Highway 1A near Vermillion Lakes.

http://www.wheretogonext.com/2006release.php?releaseID=107433

According to witnesses, the active 73-year old was cycling along this route when a car overtook him, then promptly slammed on its brakes. As he tried to get round on the driver's side, the driver's door swung open suddenly. He broke his neck in the accident.

What on earth was this driver thinking?

He had stopped to see an elk.