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My guess is that it involved a phone, either talking or texting. The road conditions just don't indicate losing control unless they were majorly distracted.
http://www.woai.com/news/local/story...J_4taYhBw.cspx
I'm sure you guys heard about this originally. Obviously I can't say if they'll win or not, but I hope they do.
It just seems pretty ed up to me that two people can be dead and the person responsible for their deaths can simply say "Oops" and then get to just walk away.
I hope they win.
My guess is that it involved a phone, either talking or texting. The road conditions just don't indicate losing control unless they were majorly distracted.
That's what happens when you ride a novelty bike (or any bike for that matter) on a busy San Antonio motorway. I hope they lose the lawsuit.
Uh, the truck veered into the median, over corrected, and wiped them off the shoulder. You are en led to ride on the road, tandem bike or not.
you're a bag
Big time.
too lazy to look. link please.
You have to be some kind of daredevil to ride a bike on that road.
Is that what a witness said?
Bicycles should not be on a highway. Just the suction caused by vehicles passing them at highway speeds can make a bicycle overcorrect. More often than not, bicycle/car accidents I've seen are the riders fault.
How do we know they didn't veer into the car lane?
What is the speed limit where this happened? If it's 45 MPH or more, they were foolish to be on the road.
That's just an assumption right? It seems to me the investigators are assuming that, because the bycycle was suppose to be on the shoulder, right? What if the bicyclists veered into his lane? I saw no witness account saying he veered. Did the driver say he veered? Was it suggested once, and everyone ran with that?
WTF..
How can someone be so ignorant about safety, and to ride a bicycle on a 65 MPH road? On top of that, 8-10 miles away, uphill from their house. How tired were they, and how did that contribute to the accident?
About 50% of the accidents where I live are atrributed to the car driver, but from most the accident's I hear about, the bicyclists disobeyed traffic laws.
Here's something to think about:
link: Cyclists to air their grievances“Planes, trains and automobiles have collisions everyday in this country,” Bexar County First Assistant District Attorney Cliff Herberg said. “Although innocent people often die in these accidents, the vast majority of those do not result in criminal charges.”
To pursue charges of manslaughter, prosecutors must have evidence of not only a “bad act” that leads to someone's death, but enough proof to convince a 12-person jury the driver had a mental state that was a gross deviation from reasonable behavior, Herberg explained.
Mere negligence — going 5 mph over the speed limit, drifting out of a lane while changing a radio station or briefly not paying attention — is not sufficient under the law to charge a driver with a crime, he said.
A police spokesman said few tickets or misdemeanor charges are brought against drivers because the collisions often are the fault of the pedestrians and cyclists.
Here's an interesting event:
Rush hour crash on Hawthorne Bridge raises questions about bike traffic
linkThe Bruehlers were southbound in the 18500 block of Texas 16 when a pickup driven by Gilbert John Sullaway Jr., 40, plowed into them about 10:45 a.m., said Deputy Ino Badillo, spokesman for the Bexar County Sheriff's Office. The truck then dragged the bicycle about 200 feet, Badillo said.
He said it appeared that Sullaway, a resident of Helotes, veered off the highway in a Ford F-150 at least once before the cyclists were hit, but investigators don't suspect alcohol played a role. Both cyclists were wearing helmets.
“He lost control of his vehicle and drove off the road,” Badillo said. “He overcorrected and as a result of that struck the bicyclists.”
i dont know if the drive should face any jail time, but we should be allowed to beat him for his negligence/accident.
i would much rather have him beat by the community than pay for his time in jail......
This isn't about jail. It's Tort action. Different thing altogether.
Yes bikes are allowed to be on the road. Regardless I would never under any cir stances put the value of my life in the hands of the driving public like that. This country and particularly this State doesn't do enough to promote bike awareness.
Yeah I'm not brave enough to get off the bike trails and sidewalks. I have no idea how the dudes do it in NYC. It's a sight to see.
Well in a place like NYC people are much more aware of who shares the road with them. Down here the all the ing necks think they own the roads.
I live in the Texas hill country, and there's a road called River Road...some of you may know it. Thin roadway...a LOT of turns and twists and hills. We have a LOT of bicyclists on the road, and it's not safe. To top it off, they don't move when a car is behind them. They just stay right in front of them. Not safe at all.
Dude it's everyone for themselves on NYC roads. Stripes in the road are merely suggestion marks.
WC making assumptions and casting aspersions again.
One of the reasons I don't commute on my bike nearly as often as I used to is because of this. I've been hit by cars before, and generally people are pretty horrible at sharing the road.
It sucks because when you have awesome weather like this it completely beats sitting in traffic in a car and is a pretty decent work out.
I got a sweet ass vintage cruiser to ride around the southtown/King William area. Perfect for days like this. No way I'd get on a busy road on a bike, though.
Thats probably the most bike friendly part of town.
Any chance we could get one of those two seaters with you in the front so I can stare at those sweet humps of yours.
Also there are so many cars on the street that no one is traveling at too great a speed. A car can't make too many uncontrolled movements in such a tight area.
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