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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do not understand why he isn't charged for manslaughter. Of course this was not intentional, but it still led to a death. The driver needs legal consequences.

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From the description of events, it isn't clear he ever saw them or knew he hit them.[/quote]

So he just drove off and ditched his truck for funsies. Sounds very normal and not sociopathic, so par for the course for drivers in this area.[/quote]

Perhaps the driver was an undocumented american, and feared they would be deported for [b]what was basically an accident that was the fault of the cyclist. And it was. Cyclists shouldn’t go zooming past vehicles about to make a right turn on their right side[/b]. That’s like Bike-101. Stupid.

But if the driver feared being taken into ICE custody and separated from his family just [b]because a cyclist did something dumb[/b], I can totally understand and forgive them for leaving the scene.  Someone else does something stupid and now YOU get deported? That’s BS. [/quote]

Why jump to conclusions when you can manifest assumptions out of thin air.

Unless you were an eye witness to the crash (not an accident), you are an irresponsible nincompoop for peddling baseless rumors.[/quote]

We don't know for certain, but it isn't baseless. [b]That's what the police have described.[/b][/quote]

Not in any report that I’ve read. If you have other sources, cite them. Or else stop peddling shit you made up.[/quote]

It's in the OP!

[i]MPD officials said its Major Crash investigations unit determined the trash truck and the e-bike were traveling northeast on Kansas Avenue and came to the intersection with Upshur Street at the same time. Investigators said the truck made a right turn onto Upshur Street when the front right section of the vehicle hit the e-bike.[/i]

There's no great mystery here.[/quote]

So you think those facts justify this conclusion?:

[quote]“Cyclists shouldn’t go zooming past vehicles about to make a right turn on their right side. That’s like Bike-101. Stupid.”[/quote]

If so, that is straight up bananas and puts your bias on display for the world to see.

If the e-bike and the truck arrived at the intersection at the same time and the e-bike is going straight, the e-bike has the right of way.

As was noted earlier, there is even a bright yellow sign on Kansas at that intersection instructing drivers to give way to cyclists and pedestrians.

There is only one scenario in which the crash is not the drivers fault and that was if the cyclist(s) had been essentially hiding behind the truck and then jumped out on the right side just as the truck was turning. In any other scenario, the driver should have been well aware (either by checking their right mirror or by having passed the cyclist) that the cyclist was on their right and given way to them as they are explicitly instructed to do.

But we don’t know exactly what happened and so I am not going to blame either party for the crash until I get more facts.

It’s appalling and disgusting how eager some of y’all are to manifest baseless assumptions to justify your desperate need to believe that any cyclist who is killed must be responsible for their own death.[/quote]

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