Video: Taxi crashes into Tour of Costa Rica peloton

It's never the motorists fault is it, just never is?!

Harold Shipman was a good GP, just those patients kept dying on him - not his fault.

As for that iceberg and the Titanic, it's had a hell of a time too.

Oh for the return of that outdated and dirty concept, personal responsibility.

¡Hijo de puta!

I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the driver had be a London black cab driver before moving to Costa Rica. 

I've not had many altercations with cars but those that I have have had lead me to believe that people only become minicab drivers when they're either too stupid, or have too extensive a criminal record, to be normal human beings.

That Tico Times translation isn't great. The cabbie says he didn't originally remember whether they cops told him to pass but that according to witness accounts they did. He goes on about how it's not his fault: "I never saw them", "I'm out here earning my salary, I didn't do anything reckless", and finally (without a hint of irony) "you have to analyze whether or not [someone] is actually at fault" before you lynch them.

Sure, he's definitely a reckless idiot, but not quite as much of a prick as the original translation suggests, IMHO.

And so continues my hatred for taxi drivers.

Absolutly shocking! What is it with people when they are videoing an event and something happens that is worth filming they point the camera at the floor? Keep the lens on the action! And watch your fat fingers!

"It's not my fault, someone in authority told me to crash into them. I'm an honourable man, I was only obeying orders" 

I wouldn't like to be in the taxi with this guy when he's using the sat nav. Presumably if it tells him to turn left or right, or make a U turn he just goes right ahead and does it without looking, because that's what the sat nav told him to do!

"The motorist says he wasn’t to blame, however, and claims that race officials told him to turn left to get off the road."

He knew what he was doing. If he'd stayed where he was he'd have been fine and nothing would've happened. He was already off the road.

"The motorist says he wasn’t to blame" Well of course the motorist is never to blame. Blame is always reserved for the innocent victims.