Originally Posted by
GrainBrain
SO GLAD THIS WAS POSTED
I was furious when I saw this report and video last night!! Ironically I'll be biking close to this area today.
ABSOLUTELY I would have pressed charges. I'm kind of dumbfounded that an apology got these punks off the hook.
For those that didn't see the report - a car approaches from behind the cyclist. The cyclist was on the paved shoulder, with a rumble strip separating the road from shoulder. A passenger leans out of the window as the car passes over the rumble strip and glances the cyclists hand as the passenger screams out "whoo!".
The police were able to get a plate number from the cyclists video and talked to the driver. Then, the driver and his father went to make an apology, after which the cyclist declined to press charges.
I would've pressed charges, I mean they were literally a half inch from clipping his bars and causing a crash. I'm sure we'll see these a-aholes again a few years into their college life where they kill someone.
Did you not watch this video!?
Oh yeah, I watched it.
But a good defense attorney will pose those very questions... "so the car swerves..." maybe the driver is avoiding a dog, and the passenger is making sure the cyclist ISN'T hit."
We live in a society of "if the glove don't fit..." and "fake news..."
The cyclist will have to prove the location of the camera on the bike at the time, and "CSI" will have to find glove residue on the car before something even as blatant as this is "indefensible" in court.
Oh I would find the motorist guilty as heck... but you'll find most of the jurists drove to court that day... as did the judge and both attorneys.