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Members of the Velo Club have initiated an effort to replace the Ghost Bike on Bath Road near the entrance to Jim Snow Road. The bike was placed there in 2018 and has fallen into disrepair. The bike remembers  Jeff Vervaeke —who died in a crash nearby crash in May 2018.

Here's what happened, according to Global News reporting:

• On May 27, 2018, a group of four cyclists taking part in the "7 Days in May" charity bicycle tour (a roughly 1,200 km ride around Lake Ontario, raising funds for pancreatic cancer) was struck by a vehicle on Bath Road in Amherstview, west of Kingston, Ontario.
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• The riders had stopped to help a fellow cyclist who'd burst a tire and fallen — one was resting on the outside of the guardrail between Bath Road and Lake Ontario while the others waited on the inside when a vehicle allegedly lost control and hit three of the cyclists.
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• Jeff Vervaeke, a young father described as "a father, a son, a friend, a mentor," died in hospital about a week later.
• OPP charged a 51-year-old Kingston man, Robert Saunders, with two counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing bodily harm.