Shlomo Bentin
- July 13, 2012
- Bancroft Way west of Fulton Street, Berkeley CA
From KQED:
Shlomo Bentin, a world-renown neuropsychologist, bought a bicycle last summer to commute to UC Berkeley from his home two miles away. An expert on facial recognition, the 65-year-old Israeli was on a one-year research sabbatical at the university.
"He took up biking in Berkeley because people in Berkeley bike," said Lynn Robertson, a friend and colleague. "He was very cautious. He was the kind of bicyclist who would stop at stop signs and signal."
On July 13, Bentin was riding home from the campus gym on Bancroft Way when he was killed.
In 2024, twelve years after Shlomo's death, the city of Berkeley finally installed protected bike lanes on Bancroft.
