Bicyclist's family wants answers in her death [via Dispatch]
Sister hopes civil lawsuit also will raise awareness about liability insurance Saturday, January 29, 2011 02:51 AM BY HOLLY ZACHARIAH THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Michelle Kazlausky was killed by a truck with failed brakes. Patti Byerly still has so many questions about the death of her twin sister this past summer. She knows some details, of course, and they are forever etched in her mind: Michelle Kazlausky was riding the Columbus-to-Athens leg of the Pelotonia Tour for cancer research on Aug. 21 when she was hit by a pickup truck and killed at the intersection of Rts. 180 and 374 in rural Hocking County during a rainstorm. Authorities say 58-year-old Ervin Blackston of Rockbridge had repaired part of the brake system on his brother's pickup truck just that morning. Then, prosecutors say, the brake line that Blackston had not repaired failed as he approached the intersection where a state trooper was stopping traffic to let the Pelotonia riders turn. Kazlausky, a 57-year-old medic