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broken bike.jpgDistracted driver kills cyclist, injures six others
A cyclist has been killed and six others taken to hospital, one of them with serious injuries, after a motorist crashed into a group ride in Florida.
The driver was reported to have told police that she had been “blinded by the sun” and was distracted by something in her vehicle before she hit a group of 14 riders.
The fatal crash happened in Davie, near Fort Lauderdale and forming part of the conurbation of Miami, which lies to the south.
According to local news reports, the driver told police that she had the sun in her face, and pulled over after she realised she had had a collision.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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In 2012 I cycled from Montreal to Miami with a Canadian friend. We were on US17 three miles north of Darien, Georgia when we came across a roadside memorial site for two cyclists, Todd Metts & Jeff Dunn, who had been killed six months earlier.
https://www.jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2012-04-27/story/2-florida-bic...
We took pictures for our blog and checked the net for reports and, particularly, to find out what happened to the driver. I have never been able to find a report that the driver was charged. It seems he got away with killing two cyclists who were doing everything right.
My guess is, unless drugs or alcohol are involved, this woman will get off scotfree or very lightly,. I hope I'm wrong.
A couple of days later we entered Florida and went around Jacksonville to take the ferry across the St. John river. A group of local cyclists were on the same ferry and told us cycling in the Jacksonville area was dangerous because drivers had little consideration for cyclists. Nevertheless, we contiued on our way and survived with no bad incidents.
"distracted by something in her vehicle"
If I were a gambling man, I would place a bet on "something" being a "cellphone" in the US parlance, but I suspect I would get very short odds.
As with Brooksby,
and 
A sensible protocol for the police to follow in cases like this would be to check mobile phone records and/or any phones in the vehicle and also perform a simple eye check on the driver (e.g. what does that license plate over there say?). Any irregularities could then be properly investigated, but it would put a stop to the drivers just bullshitting their way out of their responsibilities.