Re:Seth Vidal, creator of yum, killed in hit and run accident
by alxndr on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @04:03PM
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> It's pretty obvious when a bicyclist is at fault and they are often held responsible when they cause an accident. In the case of most city accidents, police routinely pull video from nearby buildings to establish fault.
This is completely untrue, at least in NYC.
"Historically, nearly half of motorists who kill a New York City pedestrian or cyclist do not receive so much as a citation for careless driving."
http://www.streetsblog.org/2012/08/03/nypd-7371-pedestrians-...
Re:Seth Vidal, creator of yum, killed in hit and run accident
by malandrew on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @07:23PM
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I thought we were talking about bicyclists being held accountable, not motorists?
Re:Seth Vidal, creator of yum, killed in hit and run accident
by alxndr on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @07:37PM
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I was responding to the idea that it is obvious who is at fault, when in fact the bicyclist is usually blamed. (Yes, my insinuation is that the bicyclist is not usually at fault.)
As for "police routinely pull video ... to establish fault" -- this is just one example, but recently in DC there was a bike-and-car crash in which a surveillance video proved the cyclist was not at fault, but the police refused to even look at it: http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/19284/it-must-have-...
In fact, just this morning a lady got hit and put in the ICU at the corner of King St and 3rd in San Francisco, right near the ballpark. Yolanda, the lady who manages the front desk, was reviewing the tapes with the police after the accident. That's the second serious accident involving a pedestrian or bicyclist at that intersection since the beginning of the year. TBH, the speed limit in SoMa needs to be dropped to 25 mph. People drive far too fast in this neighborhood for it to be safe for either bicyclists or pedestrians.