The Arizona Republic has published an article on its azcentral.com Website about Cindie Holub's death that all cyclists should read. Cindie Holub was the cyclist who died after being struck from behind by a Waste Management garbage truck while cycling on Dynamite Boulevard near Alma School Road in Scottsdale. According to the article, driver Fernando Jiménez has been ticketed for violatiing the three-foot law. I wonder if he shouldn't have also been charged with manslaughter.
To read the online article, click here.
To read the online article, click here.
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Interesting, the variety of penalties meted out for the assortment of accidents resulting in the deaths of cyclists.
Granted there are a variety of circumstances that of course affect the outcome - but for a driver who has somehow been determined to have "had her head beneath the dashboard" you'd think that ought to at least result in a charge of reckless endangerment...yet no charges have been filed a year later?
Or Mr. Armstrong, who was found guilty of violating the 3 ft. law and driving in a bike lane - but not manslaughter - and paid a pittance of a fine and was on his merry way.
Can the incident involving Ms. Holub - which mirrors those circumstances somewhat - expect a more just conclusion than that precedent?
I know what I'd like the outcome to be but I'm not sure I'd bet heavily in favor of it.
My condolences to Ms.Holub's family.
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