For those who don’t know that area, there are multi-use paths (north and south side) separated from the road on Victoria St, where this cyclist was hit.
For a car to hit someone, they would need to be turning in or out of the business entrances without stopping/looking, which would mean they were at fault 100%.
No charges have been laid, but hopefully this will change.
Far too many cyclists being killed in Ontario. When are we going to take things seriously?
Or the biker wasn’t riding safely.
Investigation is still open so let’s not jump to conclusions.
Here is the section of road that the article points out:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ksovy1GtfntNsBKq6
If he was on the bicycle path then the SUV driver must have been particularly negligible.
Yes, IF he was on the bike path it seems clear the SUV was in the wrong but nowhere in the article does it say if he was on the bike path.
Is this place turning into /r/fuckcars cause damn people, let the investigation finish before making assumptions?
let the investigation finish before making assumptions
From reading the article, we can infer that the SUV must have been booking it for the cyclist to sustain multiple serious injuries.
This article from 2011 claims that in the case of bike fatalities from bike-motor accidents, it is slightly more likely that it was the motorist at fault.
So I’m going with the driver at fault, it’s more statistically likely.
Such a bad take. Even if he was riding recklessly (no indication in the article that he was), would he deserve to die if he was riding along the road on winter? How would that work exactly? Are you imagining him charging at 2 ton truck with a meter high hood?
What a stupid question. I’m not even going to answer it. God damn that’s stupid.