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It doesn't help when bicyclist get the same right of way as MV. In Iowa, they are allowed to ride anywhere in the road that a MC or car does and to add to it, many times bicyclists will ride abreast in a lane doing 25 at best in a 55. It's stupid and many times they will not get over if traffic builds behind them. The thing is, they pay no registration fees or gas tax, so I don't know why this is so other than RAGBRAI.
Most bike riders have motor vehicles and pay plenty of taxes.
In this case the bicyclists were extreme right and still got hit by the idiot on the motorcycle who was clearly 100% at fault.
If that motorcyclist lived out here he'd be one of those morons who goes off the Dragon into the trees.
Accident, or collision, or crash is not mincing words. Too often in regards to motorcycles the word "accident" is used like its something "that just happened". I call BS on nearly every motorcycle incident called an accident. And until nearly every motorcycle incident is called a crash or collision we'll continue to foster this idea that the motorcycle operator is somehow removed from the responsibility of his/her actions before the crash/collision that were the actual cause or major contributor to the results.
I'm not saying anyone here is trying to describe this crash in terms that remove the responsibility of the cycle rider from the results. But lets call it what it really is, a totally avoidable crash or collision, certainly not an accident.
But the word "accident" is sometimes used to support the idea that there's no legal responsibility (read: liability) for the action.
That shouldn't be the case here.
But lets call it what it really is, a totally avoidable crash or collision, certainly not an accident.
ACCIDENT
ac-ci-dent
noun \ˈak-sə-dənt, -ˌdent; ˈaks-dənt\
1
a : an unforeseen and unplanned event or circumstance
b : lack of intention or necessity : chance <met by accident rather than by design>
2
a : an unfortunate event resulting especially from carelessness or ignorance
b : an unexpected and medically important bodily event especially when injurious (a cerebrovascular accident )
c : an unexpected happening causing loss or injury which is not due to any fault or misconduct on the part of the person injured but for which legal relief may be sought [my emphasis added]
Related Words
calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, cropper, deathblow, disaster, tragedy; bummer, knock, misadventure, misfortune; collision, crack-up, crash, smashup, wreck
Hitting a bicyclist or a motorcyclist with a car should be considered assault with a deadly weapon.