While the answer is no (not most of the time, anyway), this NY Times opinion piece comments on how cyclist-killing drivers are treated perhaps too leniently. I'll use this thread to mention the occasional, and one hopes very infrequent, instances locally where cyclists get hit by cars, along with the legal and medical consequences. At the moment, we're waiting on a trial for an 18-year-old who was speeding out of control on a street next to us, killing a woman about Mrs. PAC's age and injuring her husband (I had mentioned this in a different thread a few months ago right after it happened).
If nothing else, these incidents remind me to take extra care while riding, and driving, and to look out a bit more for the other guy.
If nothing else, these incidents remind me to take extra care while riding, and driving, and to look out a bit more for the other guy.
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