Originally posted by Beaver
Well, guess what - 
the driver got off!!! The magistrate accepted the evidence from all the witnesses, and then decided that there was not enough evidence to be able to say definitely that he had driven without due care and attention.
This is obviously because the judge is a nonbicycling motorist, thinking the same thing might have happend to him. What gets me is that this is a blatantly obvious case of his violation of your right-of-way, in the sense that he was changing direction; it's really no different than a motorist left-hooking (right-hooking in countries with Napoleonic, rather than Roman, traffic flow) a bicyclist at a driveway entrance or an intersection.
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