Comments on: More of same: Still no charges in death of Yuma cyclist Doug Flynn

By: Coghauler

Coghauler — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:37:56 +0000

No worries, Ed, I’ve got it
under conrol.
Counting from ‘one’ to
‘twenty-five billion’ thusly….
1..it was just an accident;
2..it was just an accident;
3..it was just an accident-
egregious is such a subjective
term; don’t you agree?

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:23:38 +0000

coghauler — calm down, the prosecutor is referring to nascent *criminal* charges (e.g. manslaughter, or negligent homicide). No one is saying she isn’t ever going to get a traffic ticket. They (typically?) don’t issue citations when there is any possibility of criminal charges still looming. This is following the same arc as the allen johnson fatality, citations were not issued until months later (presumably after all the blood results were in and negative).

By: Mickey

Mickey — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:46:04 +0000

the more misspellings, the more my brain aches thinking of the moron on the other side.

By: Don

Don — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:29:04 +0000

Hi Erik…….. I have not been here in a while, checked in too see what’s up and here again, I read something from a complete moron. “Bicyclist should have stayed off the road”. There is no intelligent reply to a jack ass. Scary part , there are a lot of jack ass morons out there. I must say , I miss riding though…..

By: Erik

Erik — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:56:03 +0000

One of the things that irks me the most is that I have *never* had a client who was hit from behind and not either cited for or, if deceased, accused of swerving in front of traffic and making an “improper lane change.”

Conversely, I have *never* had a cyclist who was doored or right-hooked who was not either accused of or cited for “failure to control speed.”

If you get hit, it’s your fault for being there; if somebody doors you or drives into you, it’s your fault for not stopping in time. Q.E.D.

By: Coghauler

Coghauler — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:45:00 +0000

Car drivers do not see a traffic lane
with a bicycle in it as occupied. The
problem is neither do prosecutors. She
failed to yield and is subject to any
penalty of illegal passing just as if
she had hit a car. Who can justify this
view of non-acknowledgement. There is
no follow-through of our rights to be
on the road. She might have seen a cow
in the lane and possibly not passed in
that case….oh, but a cow is bigger.
Cyclists seem to be the hair-trigger
to all the pent-up emotional irritations
drivers suffer. You don’t hear about the
bus that hinders traffic or the cement
truck or the hazzard a school crossing
creates for traffic…those are just
*accepted*. Just saying.