Originally Posted by
jon c.
It has little to do with bicycles. Drivers in fatal accidents are seldom charged beyond a traffic citation absent extenuating circumstances. It doesn't matter if it's a bicycle or a car on the receiving end.
It's actually aggravating circumstances, not extenuating, but I totally agree with this.
Daniel4 keeps posting this nonsense about charging criminally being more likely when the casualties are in other motor vehicles, and it's obviously based on nothing but the numbers of news stories he reads.