“She said she didn’t see us. Didn’t see us. She was very, very upset.”
The driver did stop and is not expected to be charged.
This makes me furious, but it’s completely expected.
Cars are the only weapon where you can kill someone without consequence, even if it was pure negligence or entirely on purpose.
While i get your point and i also ride defensively, but man, fuck that victim blaming attitude. They ride in a group of 10, it’s like when driver saying they couldn’t see a herd of cow because they aren’t expect to see them. It’s THEIR job to drive safely, attention on the road, not whatever the shit they’re looking. I drive and i cycle, and i have some mistake while driving because i was looking at the shop or signboard, luckily nothing happened, but i will never blame the other but myself for not being attentive. In this particular case, the driver is very apologetic, she made a grave mistake, and she didn’t blame the cyclist, which is good because she need to imprint that mistake in herself for the rest of her life for not paying attention. Lots of other motorcyclist/cyclist/pedestrian lost their life but still get blamed for the driver’s mistake, always with lame excuse of “losing control” or “couldn’t see them”.
Edit: imagine your two daughters left for school in a motorcycle, and then police called and said both your daughter lost their life because a truck trying to turn right(or left if you’re american) on a junction and couldn’t see them going straight, and now you’re yelling at your daughters corpses for not riding defensively.