Quote Originally Posted by maillotpois View Post
Wow - what a story. Thanks for sharing.

"More than $2000 in fines..." to the driver. Horrifying. He ended one life and irrevocably changed another.
Well, yea. OUr state's attorney and a few other folks have pretty strongly come down on the side of "hey, it was an accident, too bad so sad!" -- and have not uttered a word to indicate they think that drivers should be responsible for seeing bicyclists ever... I remember doing a double metric in the boonies and coming across a like-minded soul on his bike who was from a town about 50 miles from here, who had also been hit by an aggressive driver in CHampaign -- he said "hey, everybody knows Champaign County is where bicyclists get run off the road." (Unfortunately, I know it's not particular to us -- one of these days I **am** going to get my little cell phone with the Killer Kryptonite Ray that makes cars sputter and cough and only go 21.5 mph.)