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I suppose it is probably one of those situations where they can't prove she intended to do whatever she did.

But I don't understand how the "surprise" cyclists aren't an admission of guilt... if she couldn't see the road ahead, how could she overtake safely and legally?

madness

She wasn't being charged with careless driving though (as far as I can make out) - It's quite possible that, if she were, she would be found guilty on the basis of all the above.

She was charged with causing death by careless driving - It's not enough to show that her driving was careless, but that it was the careless driving that caused the death. There was, in the mind of the jurors, sufficient doubt, possibly due to the "wobbling", that the careles driving caused the death.

It's still fucked, whichever way you spin it though.