Originally Posted by
kjc9640
Any time that there is a plane crash and the pilot is killed it is charged off to pilot error, same thing appies here.
Hey Jim: It would be good if cyclists had the same chance of survival as the folks in airplanes. In a January 17, 2007 ABC News report by Nick Watt: "Staying Alive During a Plane Crash". The commented that over 95% of people in U.S. plane crashes between 1983 and 2000 survived. Hard for me to believe, but that is their claim.
Actually "Pilot Error as the cause of an aircraft crash has hovered around the 50% mark from the 1950' through the 2000's. (
http://www.planecrashinfo.com/cause.htm)
In the topic article, it doesn't say much at all about what the guy on the bike was doing. He could have been in the middle of the lane going the wrong way, or he may have just been riding home, with traffic on the shoulder of the road.
FHP: Hit-and-run driver called 911 from home
But here is a new one:
"Bicyclist hits, kills man on Memorial Bridge in Clearwater"