The mind boggles!
Personal responsibility seems to count for nothing in some places ...
Chris
~~ >-)-
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
+44 (0)7092 251126
www.threeshoes.co.uk
homepage.mac.com/zuiko
On 14 May 2005, at 21:17, Moose wrote:
> Last time I was on jury duty, it was a civil case. A young woman on a
> bicycle was admittedly riding on the wrong side of the road and
> across a
> busy driveway to a commercial establishment, something she did
> regularly, when an middle aged women turning left legally into the
> driveway on a busy street hit the cyclist. The cyclist was suing. The
> lawyers and judge were going through amazing gyrations to get a jury
> that excluded regular cyclists, on the one side, and anyone who might
> think that someone intentionally and repeatedly riding dangerously and
> illegally so as to be where no driver might expect them to be on a
> bicycle in an area of heavy auto traffic might simply be
> responsible for
> the consequences on the other. Fortunately, I didn't end up on that
> jury.
>
>
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