Originally Posted by
Iride01
Good that you are alive and hopefully will recover fully...... as well, your HSA! Maybe they'll find the driver. Whether it was distracted driving or malice, I'd think the driver will have to be liable for costs.
I drive an F-150. Do you really think of me that way?
All I can think of is "your results may vary", depending on where you live.
The concentration of "brodozer" trucks to stancebro racer boy cars or donks is going to be heavily leaning towards the truck side in the rural areas. Just the concentration of folks who live there. It's probably not fair to stereotype road riding incidents to rednecks, but when most people in rural areas drive trucks.......the chances go up.
The ONLY instigation I've ever had was by people on foot. Both times, it was probably a 5 to 7 year old male with their no-good parent in a more ramshakle part of town yelling out "gimme that bike, gimme that bike yo....that mine". In some kind of victim "steal my way through life" mentality. Raise 'em right momma. So sad.
To answer the thread topic:
The reason is because America doesn't take seriously the "everyman's crime". God forbid you peddle a little bit of pot and get caught, a little too much and serious prison time. But, "oh, I didn't see that guy" and killing a pedestrian or cyclists gets you mostly nothing.
Once we put away people in prison for some period of time who kill on roads, people will take note. Especially when you send people to prison who could stand in as family in Modern Family.