How do you drive 3 miles with a bike under your SUV and not know it???????

[OakLeaf]

Some people could just care less about others. That's a given.

When the law makes it easy for those people, even validates their actions, that's the problem that needs to be corrected. IMHO.

[Cataboo]

I am sure I read something that she had reflective gear - sadly it was a reporter finding reflective gear at the seen of the crime.

I know the articles are reporting that she hit the girl somewhere around 5:30, and that she called police from her home before 6:30 - so she did report it in the first hour. The articles are saying that speed and alcohol don't seem to be an issue (I don't know if that's an answer that the police give stock no matter what happens). The police were still at the scene that was 4 miles away when she called a 6:30 - so it probably would have taken 5 minutes for one to get over there and give her a breathalyzer. If she was just barely over the limit of drinking, an hour might have given her time to get under the limit for drunk driving. But really drunk, an hour wasn't going to do anything. I'd assume she wouldn't sober up that much if she was high.

[pll]

When the law makes it easy for those people, even validates their actions,
that's the problem that needs to be corrected. IMHO.

Absolutely, +1.

[Bike Chick]

When the law makes it easy for those people, even validates their actions, that's the problem that needs to be corrected. IMHO.

So true! Even worse is that we have laws to protect cyclists but they are ignored or never enforced.

[jelee1311]

I live in the Portland area and we had a cyclist hit in the last year when she was going through a intersection. Initially the judge ruled that an inersection wasn't a bike lane so the normal bike lane laws didn't appy ? Its crazy, I know by sheer numbers we have a lot of cyclists around here and I'm sure they don't all follow th laws, but it seems that a cyclist gets hit about once a week around here.

[AllezGirl]

http://environment.change.org/blog/v..._us_senate_bid