Not arguing against protected bike lanes, but this specific case doesn't make the best argument. They don't offer meaningful additional protection against drivers dumb, drunk, or uncaring enough to drive the wrong way on one ways, or on the wrong side of two way streets.
Some time back, someone (intentionally) drove up a divided bike land here in NYC and killed a few people.
As for the charge, I don't know the details, but at the least it should be negligent homicide regardless of what the driver thought. It's the OBLIGATION of drivers to KNOW what streets they're on. I say that as someone who has turned the wrong way on one ways is the past, but was able to react and correct before a collision. I have to wonder what that driver thought the bright white light in front of her was.
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