Originally Posted by Brian Ratliff

Finally, the voice of someone who knows the cyclist and the area and rides a bike. The trifecta. Thank you for lending a bit of rationality to this conversation . The sucky thing about this incident is it is entirely possible that a very slight change in circumstance would have led to much less injury to the pedestrian. Something as small as her turning her head slightly (and seeing the cyclist out of the corner of her eye) or her not having her hand in her pocket (pinning it to her side) when she was hit. Very very very slight changes of circumstances and she might have lived.

She likely was blindsided and hit her head in a bad way, possibly on the curb. Bad news, but there isn't necessarily a bad person or even a bad mistake. Stuff happens; sometimes people die for trivial reasons. I think we should all take a second to remember this before getting out the pitch forks.

Live without fear; kiss your kids; be nice to strangers you meet, because two minutes from now, you might be dead from something completely unforeseeable, something completely random, something utterly trivial.