From the article - “The agency said Rapp and a fellow bicyclist were riding on a local road when Medina passed them in his car, stopped, and drove his vehicle in reverse. Medina then hit Rapp, and she was pronounced dead after emergency responders brought her to a hospital.”
That’s a murder.
As someone who gets around town on two wheels, I really, really fucking hate that it’s expected of me to be the one cognizant of danger and not the motherfucker behind the wheel of a massive, metal death machine.
As someone who spends far more time behind the wheel of a metal death machine (though not a massive one) than on two wheels, I agree.
As a fellow two-wheeler, 🤝
I like this explanation but I’m no way some one who drives can not be excluded from murder. But isn’t also pre-meditated murder bc you had the option ‘physically stopped the car and reversed’… No matter the circumstance weather it was intentional to not hit a ‘unintended’ - all sounds too meditated. They had the ability to disengage and not car if thier 2tn vehicle to be used as tank bullet…
Cycling in the US must be the absolute worst
Situational. Liberal areas tend to be better… but even then in my local very blue state we’ve got a trial coming up for a guy who was speeding and hit and killed a bicyclist.
Yeah, I’m not sure I’d associate cycling quality with a red/blue split. Places like Utah and Idaho are deep red and are practically paradise for cycling. Eastern Washington, where I used to ride a lot when I lived in Seattle, was similarly red yet great for cycling.
Left leaning places are typically more willing to spend money on cycling infrastructure, though, so that’s something.
It’s actually quite nice. But the US is large, and different places have very different people with very different attitudes towards cyclists (or other road users of any kind, for that matter)
I ride 10,000 km per year in the US and find the vast majority of drivers to be respectful of me.
With that said, there are some crazy people out there who really shouldn’t be driving.
