A car collides into cyclists participating in a race in Mexico's northern border city of Matamoros, Sunday June 1, 2008. At least one person was killed and 14 injured when a driver slammed into a bicycle race.

(AP Photo/Jose Fidelino Vera Hernandez)

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Paladins, friends, readers,

Please join me in sending our thoughts and prayers (any benevolent god will do) to the injured cyclists and their families, and especially to the family of the deceased. Let's all hope nothing like this happens anywere else ever again.