IMAG1809_West Sacramento Ghost bike for Professor Kentaro Inoue
From the Davis Enterprise:
Kentaro Inoue, 47, was struck by a garbage truck while riding westbound on West Capitol Avenue about 7:50 a.m. Wednesday, the West Sacramento Police Department reports.
Kentaro Inoue, a professor of plant sciences at UC Davis, was struck and killed while bicycling Aug. 31 in West Sacramento.
Kentaro Inoue, a professor of plant sciences at UC Davis, was struck and killed while bicycling Aug. 31 in West Sacramento. Courtesy photo
Inoue specialized in cell and developmental biology, biochemistry and genomics, according to his university profile page.
Inoue and the truck were both traveling westbound that morning, when the truck took a right turn into a trailer park near the 2000 block of West Capitol Avenue and struck the bicyclist. When police arrived at the scene, they found the cyclist had already died, said Sgt. Roger Kinney of the West Sacramento Police Department.
“At this point, we don’t feel there were any drugs or alcohol involved with the driver,” Kinney said.
After the incident, the driver immediately stopped his vehicle and remained at the scene to speak with officers at length.
“I’ve been doing this a long time, and that was one of the worst accidents,” Kinney said.
Investigators will be looking into the incident for another week before bringing it to the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office, which will decide whether charges will be filed against the truck driver.
Inoue came to UCD as a faculty member in 2002. He received his undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degrees in pharmaceutical sciences from the University of Tokyo. In 1997, Inoue immigrated to the United States to pursue postdoctoral fellowships with the Samuel Roberts Nobel Foundation and the University of Michigan, according to his LinkedIn profile.
A dedicated cyclist, Inoue also was known for riding with the Davis Bike Club. After moving to Sacramento earlier this year, Inoue frequently commuted to Davis via bike, according to a recent UCD news release.
According to UCD, Inoue is survived by his wife, Amy Brown, who completed undergraduate work in physiology at UCD and went on to receive a doctorate of veterinary medicine from the university in 2003. She is a veterinarian in Roseville.
“Kentaro was an outstanding scientist and a well-liked faculty member,” Joe DiTomaso, professor and interim chair of the department of plant sciences, said in a news release. “He was always positive and friendly and will be missed both for his research and his personality.”
The incident marks is the second fatal collision involving a cyclist in West Sacramento in recent weeks. On Aug. 27, a 93-year-old man riding his bike on Jefferson Boulevard died after colliding with a pickup truck.
IMAG1809_West Sacramento Ghost bike for Professor Kentaro Inoue
From the Davis Enterprise:
Kentaro Inoue, 47, was struck by a garbage truck while riding westbound on West Capitol Avenue about 7:50 a.m. Wednesday, the West Sacramento Police Department reports.
Kentaro Inoue, a professor of plant sciences at UC Davis, was struck and killed while bicycling Aug. 31 in West Sacramento.
Kentaro Inoue, a professor of plant sciences at UC Davis, was struck and killed while bicycling Aug. 31 in West Sacramento. Courtesy photo
Inoue specialized in cell and developmental biology, biochemistry and genomics, according to his university profile page.
Inoue and the truck were both traveling westbound that morning, when the truck took a right turn into a trailer park near the 2000 block of West Capitol Avenue and struck the bicyclist. When police arrived at the scene, they found the cyclist had already died, said Sgt. Roger Kinney of the West Sacramento Police Department.
“At this point, we don’t feel there were any drugs or alcohol involved with the driver,” Kinney said.
After the incident, the driver immediately stopped his vehicle and remained at the scene to speak with officers at length.
“I’ve been doing this a long time, and that was one of the worst accidents,” Kinney said.
Investigators will be looking into the incident for another week before bringing it to the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office, which will decide whether charges will be filed against the truck driver.
Inoue came to UCD as a faculty member in 2002. He received his undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degrees in pharmaceutical sciences from the University of Tokyo. In 1997, Inoue immigrated to the United States to pursue postdoctoral fellowships with the Samuel Roberts Nobel Foundation and the University of Michigan, according to his LinkedIn profile.
A dedicated cyclist, Inoue also was known for riding with the Davis Bike Club. After moving to Sacramento earlier this year, Inoue frequently commuted to Davis via bike, according to a recent UCD news release.
According to UCD, Inoue is survived by his wife, Amy Brown, who completed undergraduate work in physiology at UCD and went on to receive a doctorate of veterinary medicine from the university in 2003. She is a veterinarian in Roseville.
“Kentaro was an outstanding scientist and a well-liked faculty member,” Joe DiTomaso, professor and interim chair of the department of plant sciences, said in a news release. “He was always positive and friendly and will be missed both for his research and his personality.”
The incident marks is the second fatal collision involving a cyclist in West Sacramento in recent weeks. On Aug. 27, a 93-year-old man riding his bike on Jefferson Boulevard died after colliding with a pickup truck.