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Originally Posted by Gpsma
A travesty of justice.
Maybe if these bicyclists and their clubs(more like gangs) learned to ride responsibly these type accidents would never occur.
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Generally speaking, while I have great sympathy for the victims, agree that this woman's behavior was reprehensible and recognize bicyclists right to the roadway, I think bicyclists need to be much more careful about how they assert these rights: Tandem riders blocking roadways at 15 MPH, or lagging members of a peloton entering a roundabout and forcing cars already in the circle to stop (examples of what I regularly observe), is a prescription for disaster. I rode bicycles and motorcycles without incident for 50+ years by always giving way to the largely insensitive car and truck drivers who could have taken me out at any time. Again, generally speaking, the roadway is NOT the place for a bicyclist to contest what are his/her legal rights. They will always lose, sometimes catastrophically.