Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Someone Driving A Car Ran You Over and It's Your Fault

Someone Driving A Car Ran You Over and It's Your Fault <sarcasm>

Yeah, you know that's true. A person on a bike gets hit by a person driving a car and all of a sudden people are clamoring with ways to blame the person on the bike...
- Was he/she wearing a helmet?
- Were they all the way to the right?
- Why were they riding at night?
- Did they have a front light?
- Did they have a rear light or reflector?
- Were they wearing their safety underwear?

On and On and On.  Never mind that it was a hit-and-run. Never mind that the person driving was drunk, or high, or sleepy, aggressive, ran a red light, was speeding, intentionally ran the person the bike over....never mind any of that crap.  It's your fault because you committed the capital offense of riding a bike on a public roadway built for transportation.

So when a person on a bike gets hit - step back from the fray and throw the Bullshit flag on the knee-jerk blame game play. How about we figure out what really happened first? We owe that to the person on the bicycle AND the person in the car.


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