Jabba Degrassi

Isn't this suppsed to be the kind of case that sets precedents? Or wait, is it precedent-based in the UK? I assumed it was since it is in Canada and I figured we probably just stole it from the Brits.

deathhare

Im sure this isnt the first person killed by someone whom the internet deemed as a reckless rider.

Jabba Degrassi

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Jabba Degrassi

those are little arms btw

Thetank

Reasonable because you don't know all the details to what caused this. Here's a guy who warned the pedestrians ahead, swerved to miss not to hit and caused an accident. Yes an accident because he attempted to go between the group of people and not plow into them. He took a 17 year old girl's life because he was too much of a D-bag to slow down but no one mentions what a group of drunken teenagers were doing crossing the street where this happened. Its easy to blame the person on the vehicle for everything but sometimes pedestrians are too stupid to look both ways before crossing. Although that's not an excuse for killing someone it sure does show how people assume they will be safe on the street because they're in a group, even more so after drinking.

J A Holman

That's utter bollocks. He didn't warn, he threatened. He refused to take action he knew would prevent any collision as an extension of his displeasure over a road obstruction that happened to be a group of living human beings.

Put him in a car and you would never dream of making excuses.

Admit it. Also apologize for lying about spell check, that sort of thing is for spineless weasels and you don't want to be one.

operator

You have no idea the amount of idiot pedestrians who step out onto the road without looking. It's a ****ing road for christssake.

J A Holman

Yes well we don't have pedestrians here...

And I agree with you, roads are for cars. If you venture onto them without your car no one is obligated to avoid striking you.

Is that how you roll? Shouting threats, refusing to brake, striking people?

Sounds like a few people I know, but they make weird inhuman statements like that from behind the wheel, not from behind handlebars.

Operator if you were proceeding at around 25 kph and a pedestrian stepped in front of you, given enough space that you could shout a threat that you would not brake for them, you would strike them if they did not move, and then you struck and killed a woman without braking, just as you had promised...what would the response of your laws?

What would be the response of the people you work with?

What would your family say?

Do you think any of them would pat you on the back and commiserate about the idiot that didn't get out of your way deserving what they got, what you delivered?

I didn't think so.

paulwwalters

He was probably a brakeless noob running platforms.