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@lemonade
obviously i don't actually know the case you're talking about but i'd expect the car driver in your case was convicted of causing death by dangerous driving, not by careless driving. death by dangerous driving carries much higher sentences, as well it should.
also have a tiny bit of faith in our justice system at least in so far as this: i think we can be pretty sure that the difference in sentence will not have been because one of the victims was a cyclist and the other a motorcyclist.
looking at the picture of the road there it does seem strange that the driver could not see a cyclist, but i guess if the sun was in his eyes and he was fiddling with the radio and then got distracted by a big lorry coming the other way etc etc etc.
anyway another terrible tragedy. rip