Originally Posted by lil brown bat
As for the facts, if someone is going straight and has no stop sign, and someone else blows through a stop and hits them, sorry, that is absolutely 100% the fault of the second driver.
The one thing that I think was a bit different in this situation was, the driver blew through the stop, and the cyclist hit her -- not the other way around.
I don't think it much matters, there's a physical limitation to how well brakes can function. Given the speed of a car even when pulling out, for the cyclist to hit her she'd have had to pull out just before he hit her.
I mean, unless she pulled out, stopped, and 5 seconds later he hits her. But I don't think that happened here.