Originally Posted by
FBinNY
Yes, and I wouldn't have posted here at all. However, my point was that every accident, include hit and runs, shouldn't be jumping off points for idle speculation without any facts or rants about the supposed antipathy of police to bicyclists.
Unlike some others here, I find that the police actually do investigate fatal accidents involving bicyclists, and especially hits and runs. There seem to be witnesses or some evidence based on the description of the car having veered across the road. Hopefully it'll be enough to find the culprit and convict him. If and when they have the driver, they might be able to use cell phone data, or eyewitness testimony form those who saw him drinking prior to make a case.
However speculation here without facts does nobody any good.
There are areas which the police do not put much effort into investigating cyclist deaths. B. Carfree points out that this death is in one of those areas. San Francisco is another example where cyclist deaths are blamed on the cyclist. Remember SFPD:
SFBC Finds What SFPD Didn?t: Video of Crash That Killed Amelie Le Moullac | Streetsblog San Francisco
And there was a case in NYC of a truck running over a cyclist in which video vindicated the cyclist (once the family finally got it from the police) even after NYPD blamed the cyclist.