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Ontario ex-Attorney General runs over a bike messenger

jonKranked

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Should be interesting to hear the rest of the details.

The one thing that really incriminates the driver, based on the information in that article, is that the cyclist was "clinging to the car". Regardless of whether he was doing so intentionally, or if he was stuck, why did Bryant keep driving? Why didn't he just stop?
 
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kidwoo said:
reason #25249527493458353 why I quit road biking.


I hope that dick gets manslaughter at the minimum. Or whatever the frenchy term for manslaughter is.
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Not that the cyclist is at fault in any way, but he was rolling past a bus (which was the vehicle which filmed the accident). The cyclist never looked up, so he had no idea a car was coming.

I don't assume roads are open just because I have the green light...
 
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A Madison police officer says state Rep. Fred Clark, D-Baraboo, admitted to running a red light and not paying attention before colliding with a bicyclist Aug. 18.

An additional report on the incident, which occurred at an intersection near the Madison Capitol building, was released Tuesday by the Madison Police Department.

"I asked Clark what happened and Clark stated to me, ‘I ran a red light’ and he also stated, ‘I was just not paying attention,’" the officer wrote in his report.

In a news story following the accident, the Baraboo News Republic quoted Clark as saying, "I believe that when I entered the intersection that the light was green."

Clark has since said he was misquoted, and that he actually said, "I BELIEVED that when I entered the intersection that the light was green."

The distinction is that Clark says he no longer believes he had a green light. He believed the light was green as he was entering the intersection, but has since come to realize it was red.

"The afternoon sun made it difficult for me to see the signal, so obviously if I had that moment to live over again I would have stopped and looked much more closely at it," Clark said in a phone interview Tuesday.

The report released Tuesday was created on Aug. 24, six days after the accident occurred.

It says the bicyclist, 56-year-old Richard Rideout of Madison, suffered back and lung injuries in the accident.
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Fred is a phucking liar. Sun in the eyes? Look at the highlight. The sun is at his side, and it is in the cyclist's eyes.
 
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sanjuro said:
Not that the cyclist is at fault in any way, but he was rolling past a bus (which was the vehicle which filmed the accident). The cyclist never looked up, so he had no idea a car was coming.

I don't assume roads are open just because I have the green light...
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Agreed, a very avoidable accident on the cyclists part. Never, ever trust car drivers, even if they look straight at you they sometimes don't see you.
 
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I don't think there are any geniuses in this story (the toronto one)...hanging onto a rolling car is pretty stupid. If you've been wronged, get the license plate, call 911.....maybe the cops will eventually show. Get some witnesses together. I mean how did he think it was gonna end?
 
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