Not good. It appears that the driver will be (initially) charged with criminal negligence causign death, and careless operation of a motor vehicle, causing death. Those charges will keep the file in the hands of Traffic Services division of the Metropolitan Toronto Police Service. The driver is the former Ontario Attorney General (i.e.: top cop) who resigned to become a high ranking city of Toronto official.
Witnesses say that the cyclist was in an altercation with the driver of the car, (the car was a convertible, with the top down) while the two were moving westbound along a busy downtown street. The car and cyclsit then crossed the centre line of the road, and continued to travel Westbound in the Eastbound curb lane, until the cyclist was knocked down after hitting trees and a mailbox.
The cyclist was then dragged and eventually run over.
I've got to ask: does anyone here who cycles think that it is a good idea (or even justifiable) to grab onto the driver of a moving car, no matter how badly they might have cut you off?
Also, as a driver, what would you do if a cyclist came up, reached into your car and grabbed you while you were driving? Do you think that you might lose control of your car?