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BICYCLISTS FACE
DEADLY THREATS
Bike deaths in N.J.:
How they died

58

People died in bicycle

accidents in New Jersey
between 2010 and 2013.
Here is how they died

20

Crossing the roadway

16

Riding with traffic

Riding against traffic

11

While on the sidewalk

Other
THOMAS P. COSTELLO/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Dale Houck moves with the traffic on Hope Road at Route 36 in Tinton Falls on May 5 as he commutes from his job in
Eatontown to his home in Red Bank.

Even after 58 deaths in four years, safety

measures for bicyclists face roadblocks

KEN SERRANO @KENSERRANOAPP

erome Koch loved to keep Fair Haven clean. The vocal environ-

Little safety
The percentage of fatal bike
accident victims between
2010 and 2013 who were
not wearing safety equipment:
New Jersey: 84 percent
U.S.: 66 percent

mentalist and Fair Haven councilman biked around the two-river

SOURCE: NATIONAL HIGHWAY

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northern Monmouth County borough, collecting roadside trash

and recyclables with a grabber. But his devotion took a tragic

To see a
video of
Dale
Houcks

turn on Nov. 29. Carrying a garbage bag in one hand, the 63-year-old

Koch lost control of the bicycle and turned in front of a 1999 BMW sedan
as the driver tried vainly to avoid the collision, according to an investigative report based on the account of the driver. He died a day later.
Kochs death highlights what authorities have known for years: New

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SUNDAY 05.17.15

Bob Gildersleeve, the eighth and

final fatality pulled from the
Amtrak wreck, will be
remembered today and Monday
in Red Bank and Holmdel.

Amtrak
victim
had roots
at Shore
ERIK LARSEN @ERIK_LARSEN
RED BANK Perhaps one of the most
haunting images from the Amtrak crash this
past week came not at the scene of the disaster itself, but of 13-year-old Marc Gildersleeve passing out photos of his missing dad
to reporters at a Philadelphia hotel the day
after.
My name is Marc Gildersleeve, please
help me find my dad, the boy said before
news photographers as he held up a photocopied picture of Robert Gildersleeve, Jr.
which included a handwritten description of
his fathers height, weight and what he was
wearing onboard the passenger train which
had derailed less than 24 hours earlier, according to the New York Daily News and
videos circulated on social media.
And if you know any information, please
call these numbers listed, he said.
The following day, Marcs father, Robert
Jr., would be the eighth and last victim to be
pulled from the wreckage of the first car of
Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 188 from
Washington to New York.
The 45-year-old husband of Danna Gildersleeve, and father of son Marc and daughter
Ryan Gildersleeve, will be remembered today and Monday both in Red Bank and Holmdel, the latter town where he previously
lived. Gildersleeve also was a graduate of
Middletown High School South, according to

See VICTIM, Page 11A

Bob was an exceptional leader

and was instrumental to our
success. We will greatly miss
him.

See BIKE, Page 8A

ECOLAB STATEMENT,

ABOUT BOB GILDERSLEEVE

Monmouth animals get new protector

KATHLEEN HOPKINS @KHOPKINSAPP
EATONTOWN When Ross Licitra, a Monmouth
County narcotics detective, and his wife Heather were
moving from their Eatontown house to a farm in Marlboro in 1999, they went to the county Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals facility here to donate
old clothes to the organizations thrift shop.
They left with a goat.
When animal control officers found a pig running
down Route 79 in Marlboro, they took it to the Licitras
farm in the Morganville section of Marlboro and asked
if the couple would foster the animal until a permanent

home could be found for it. The Licitras agreed, but

when animal control officers later informed them they
had found a home for the pig, Ross Licitra told the officers, Forget about it. Shes already got a name.
And a permanent home.
Over the years, Buddy the Goat and Peggy the Pig
were among many unwanted or abandoned barnyard
creatures that found sanctuary at the Licitras fiveacre farm a place the couple called home while Ross
Licitra toiled undercover, taking drug dealers off the
streets of Monmouth County, and Heather Licitra
See SPCA, Page 4A

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TOM SPADER/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Ross Licitra, new chief law enforcement officer for the

Monmouth County SPCA, with some of his many rescues.

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