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  • There was a charge of manslaughter against the motorist that had illegal tinted windows and opened his car door and killed a cyclist, the jury spent nearly an hour to return a not guilty verdict. I posted the link a couple of pages back.

  • Yeah. I didn't follow that one closely enough to know exactly why the jury acquitted him, but I think in general it's a hard charge to make stick. In that instance I guess one key question is whether it was the tinted windows that caused the death, or the bus driver failing to keep an adequate distance from the cyclist.

  • Yeah. I didn't follow that one closely enough to know exactly why the jury acquitted him

    I am going to make a totally unsubstantiated assertion that a jury made up of cyclists (as opposed to motorists) would not have acquitted him.

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