California crash

Horrible vindictive driver crashed into eight cyclists in Sunnyvale, California today. What can we do to protect ourselves from such crazies?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sunnyvale-california-car-rams-8-people...

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Permalink Reply by mike w. on April 24, 2019 at 12:03pm

"Possible terrorism."

Sadly, there's no real defense against someone who's determined to do evil.

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Permalink Reply by Doug Haynes on April 24, 2019 at 11:41pm

Nothing.

Life's dangerous get over it or stop leaving your house.

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Permalink Reply by Tom A.K. on April 25, 2019 at 12:41am

Do some serious repair work on our damaged mental health care system in this country now.

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Permalink Reply by Cooper Hofstad on April 25, 2019 at 7:20am

Nothing more or less than pedestrians; church-, synagogue-, or mosque-goers; kids in schools; people in their own home; people at restaurants, etc. can do. This isn't a cycling issue, unfortunately. And there's no defense except the law of averages. And systemic changes to a million things in our country, of course.

What makes you say "vindictive"?

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Permalink Reply by mike w. on April 26, 2019 at 2:16am

When he was arrested at the scene he was "down on his knees, praising Jesus."

It kinda looks to me that his man either had a psychotic episode, or his accelerator pedal jammed.

Maybe "deranged" "enraged(?)" or "incapacitated" rather than "vindictive."

Very curious.

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Permalink Reply by Cooper Hofstad on April 26, 2019 at 5:13am

Ahhh, I was thinking more in the "revenge" sense.

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Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on April 26, 2019 at 8:18am

This story describes the driver as an Iraq war veteran with PTSD and other issues and says that he intentionally hit the victims. He's been charged with 8 counts of attempted murder.

https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Driver-in-Sunnyvale-crash-that...