Originally Posted by
B. Carfree
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A critical safety component failing is an accident. Negligently failing to watch the roadway and then running down a cyclist in a bike lane is not an accident, it's a criminal act of negligence. (That's based only on what we know: the debris field runs from the bike lane and thus the deputy struck the cyclist while he was in the bike lane.)
I think you are confuse about what constitutes a criminal act... if the officer
intended to strike the rider than I would agree it was an assault; if the officer was just not paying attention, it was an accident and does not rise to the level of criminally... it will however be a civil matter...
point is, remember this can happen to any one of us or someone we know. ride cautiously and don't take any risk...
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