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$1,000 bond for man who struck and killed cyclist, then left the scene and hid the evidence
I guess the judge thought a thousand bucks would do the job and keep this fellow around for trial. I hope he’s right.
–Erik Ryberg
Just because you don’t move over (and kill two cyclists) doesn’t make you a criminal
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Jurors in Missouri proved it by acquitting a man who struck two cyclists from behind, killing both of them. His attorney successfully argued he had no duty to move aside when he saw them (he says they swerved into his path, but admitted he did not move aside for them). From [...]
Andria Ligas ghostbike needs to be moved, says property owner
The owner of the property that the Andria Ligas ghostbike is in front of has told us to remove it. I think it is in a city right-of-way, but he’d probably remove it himself if we don’t, and this way at least we get to keep it.
Ligas’s case is a very troubling one to [...]
Utah judge says “there must be consequences” for killing cyclist; sentences driver to 90 days jail
A Utah judge has sentenced a motorist who drove into and killed a bicyclist and then fled the scene to 90 days in jail. He imposed this sentence, he said, because someone lost a life and so there must be consequences.
I guess what he meant was that ordinarily he wouldn’t punish a person for [...]
Road rager wants to know: You mean I have to stay in jail for a whole week?
Cyclist on car hood
The whole of bike-blog internetdom is awash in this story about a road raging motorist who first attacked a cyclist (after the cyclist told him to slow down) and then, when the cyclist stood in front of his car to get the plate, drove into him and thence down the road with [...]
Read More..>>Stay out of Dodge County, Wisconsin
They’ve had eleven bike fatalities so far this year. The most recent was a hit-from-behind collision. The local police say they have no plans to cite the truck driver who hit the cyclist.
Brandenburg, 67, was riding westbound on County Trunk A near Point Road at about 6 a.m. when his bicycle was struck from behind [...]
Woman who doored and killed cyclist fined $110.00–Canadian!
A Toronto woman who doored a cyclist, knocking him into and then–fatally–under a van, has been fined $110.00.
The police said she was really shaken up about it, and commented that it’s hard to see cyclists, so it can’t really be considered negligent to open a door into one.
The $110.00 fee is the same amount local [...]