Re: Dead Vermont cyclist

On 3/14/2025 4:02 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 3/14/2025 2:30 PM, Zen Cycle wrote:

On 3/14/2025 1:25 PM, floriduh dumbass wrote:

On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 11:44:15 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

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Nope, I'm not sympathetic. What rule could be more fundamental than
"Don't hit someone walking (or bicycling) with your car"?
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And if killing someone with your car isn't sufficient for forbidding
future driving, what would be?
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Is the permission to drive really more important than a person's life?

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Isn't there a law against riding your bicycle in the path of a moving
car?

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no, dumbass.
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 The actual situation on the ground can be wildly different depending on the statute, local road design, marking, signage and practice, the personalities involved and whatever the judge ate for lunch.
 http://flbikelaw.org/2010/03/two-citations-identical-circumstances- opposite-verdicts/

But the question was whether there's an actual law against, essentially, riding on a normal road when there's a car somewhere behind.
Based on your article, there is not. Cops and judges may be ignorant of the law, and that's regrettable. I'm glad that we have much less of that ignorance problem in my area.
Also regrettable is having cyclists (including tricyclists) so eager to throw away the rights of fellow cyclists, just because of their own personal fears.
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- Frank Krygowski