Using DUmmy logic, doesn't going around the crossing gates at a railroad crossing and then getting struck and killed by a train qualify you for a variation of a Darwin or Herman Cain award? He didn't believe in the science of a train vs. guy on a bike collision and apparently didn't believe in traffic control devices.
I've never understood how people, especially pedestrians or bicyclists, get hit by trains. You know the exact path they travel, there are warnings where they cross streets, they're big as, well, a train, they make hell's own noise with all the rumbling and clanging and banging and creaking and horn blowing.
It's not like they can sneak up on your ass like a Tesla in a parking lot.
Maybe his liberalism had metastasized and he decided to check out early rather than face a long and painful future.