Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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According to every level of collision investigation across the US....

Criminal proceedings against anyone involved in a vehicular collision go off of the "primary collision factor" or PCF. There could be multiple things that went wrong in a collision, but there's 1 involved party which did the *one thing* which, if not done, would have avoided the collision.

In this dick face bicyclists case... yes, the vehicle was crowding the bicycle father to the right, not cool, I get it...

.... then the bicyclist's inner 5 year-old came out and he drifted left (likely purposely) in front of that 5000-6000 pound vehicle way too close (potentially unsafe lane change and without proper signal). Then BikeDick (purposely?) slowed down to clearly an unsafe-for-given-conditions speed on a green light, causing the vehicle he cut off just a couple seconds earlier, to not have enough time or space to see/react to...thus the bicyclist is likely at fault based on my view of the incident.

Would a prosecutor bring charges if he was a most likely cause of his own demise? Doubt it, but crazier things have happened.
Having spent 30 years doing nothing but deal with accidents, accident reconstruction, collision theory, advanced vehicle systems and tort law, I have never heard the phrase “primary collision factor” or PCF. The term used in the industry is “proximate cause”. The “one thing” you mention is the “doctrine of last clear chance”, in other words who had the last clear opportunity to avoid the collision. Many people mix criminal intent or action with civil liability. Many law enforcement officer have no clue what happened and base their reports or citations on what people say rather than physical evidence and people will lie when the truth will help them. I would think in cases where a full on accident reconstruction was done 50% of the police reports were completely or partially inaccurate. As police departments are groomed through political hiring practices this is trending towards many more inaccurate police reports.
 
Regardless of fault, the rider was an idiot.
Biker passed on the right and then cut off the other driver. Idiot move, regardless of legality, and it was his own fault he took a spill.

Used to be a dickbrained rider on my commute who would get passed by 25 cars, then ride in the gutter to the front of the line at the traffic light. He would run the light as soon as it was clear, then move back to the center of the lane and block traffic again. Never saw him get hit, but I'm sure many drivers were tempted.

Even worse is when there is a bike lane, and the cyclefags ride in the vehicle lanes anyway.

Pics and shit.

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