eh, in sf, you get a ticket for killing cyclists. Sometimes not even that. It's really not a big deal. So it isn't as if the cop got a special deal.
"We do not know of a single case of a cyclist fatality in which the driver
was prosecuted, except for D.U.I. or hit-and-run," Leah Shahum, the
executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, told me. [1]
Do people get prosecuted anywhere for fatal traffic accidents, except when they are severely breaking the law?
Somehow I feel that if I struck a cyclist while answering a work related email (not that I'd ever do such a thing) that I would not be getting off that lightly.