Rear Facing Camera Catches Driver (Deliberately?) Hit Cyclist

This is a bit hard to watch. Likely the driver won't even get a ticket.

http://urbanvelo.org/rear-facing-camera-catches-driver-deliberately...

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Permalink Reply by T.C. O'Rourke on July 28, 2014 at 6:02pm

What upsets me most are all the motorists drove right on by.

I would watch a second time to count them if I thought I could stand the anguished wheezing.

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan Quist on July 29, 2014 at 6:48am

My wife was involved in a scooter accident a few years ago. She was riding home on a quiet residential street. A driver on a cross-street blew a stop sign, stopping in the middle of the intersection. From the damage to the scooter (and my wife) we were able to determine the bike did a full 360 end-over-end.

But the scooter and car never physically made contact so under Illinois law it was a single-vehicle accident. The accident report included nothing about the driver of the car, who had backed out of the intersection before police arrived and played innocent. (Witnesses changed their stories too, our attorney lived in the neighborhood and said he'd never seen anything like it. Pursuing with a private investigator would likely have cost us thousands which we didn't have.)

I don't know how it would have been treated, legally, had my wife contacted the car but not the scooter. But it's possible that affects how this case is handled, despite the damning video evidence.

Davis Moore said:

Gawd people, the bike wasn't struck, the rider was just hit by a mirror. The chief of police says so, so that's what happened, okay? What's all the ruckus about?