I'm sure some guy will say.. "HELLMETS!?" and another will say "HELLMETS DO JACK ALL". I sure hope it doesn't turn into another helmet vs. no helmet thread.
The full japanese version has stuff not lost in translation. such as...
"3 lane straight away with good visibility. Car was parked in the left most lane. There were 4 riders and they didn't see the car."
Tragic, yes. Will something come of it? I sure hope so. Never pleasant to lose lives. So please respect.
If the car was parked in the passing lane of a 4 lane highway then I can see the driver
possibly being charged in this case.
But it still begs the question as to why the cyclists did not see the car? I have come up behind cars parked in a passing lane on a interstate. It is very difficult to determine that they are actually stopped and you can get a bit too close for comfort before realizing they are stopped, but this is moving at 70-80 MPH in a car. I doubt the cyclists were going that fast. But perhaps close if it was a decent and they just did not have the time to swerve around the car.