[hawkinspeter]

This is awful. I gather that the U.S. police sometimes wait to press charges, so there may be further developments.

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/transportation/article/liberty-county-bike-crash-kent-wosepka-16582033.php

[quote]A Massachusetts man was killed outside Houston Saturday when a driver crashed into a group of cyclists who were near the midway point of a 2,400-mile cross-country bicycle ride. 

Police identified the slain cyclist as 51-year-old Kent Joshua Wosepka from South Hamilton, Massachusetts. He was among six cycling enthusiasts making their annual trek from San Diego to St. Augustine, Florida, when the collision occurred. The group was heading east on FM 787 in Liberty County, approximately three miles outside Rye, Texas, around 11 a.m. when a 66-year-old man driving a Ford Escape “failed to maintain [his] speed” and crashed into the group, according to Sgt. Erik Burse of Texas DPS. [/quote]

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[AlsoSomniloquism]

Thought this was touched upon

Thought this was touched upon in a blog earlier this week. The same ammount of victims and it being in the same state as the Rolling Coal incident last month rang a bell or two.

[Creakingcrank]

From your link, it looks as

From your link, it looks as if the Texas “failure to maintain speed” law applies when one vehicle collides with  another, regardless of whether the colliding vehicle is exceeding the speed limit.

The extract from the law quoted on that page: “An operator may not drive at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the circumstances then existing”

The article goes on to say that this means that under Texas law the driver of the “back” vehicle is automatically at fault in the event of a rear-end collision.

Doesn’t explain why the driver walked free, but makes the circumstances of the accident easier to understand. 

[Anonymous]

The driver was breaking the
The driver was breaking the speed limit (just looked it up, speed limit was 60mph)

[HoarseMann]

Sriracha wrote:

Sriracha wrote:

Struggling to understand the narrative. Was his “failure to maintain his speed” a consequence of colliding with so many cyclists, or did he hit the cyclists because he slowed down?

I thought that was strange wording, but it’s just what they call speeding in Texas…

https://mcminnlaw.com/texas-refresher-failure-to-maintain-speed-law/

[mdavidford]

Could be an odd way of saying

Could be an odd way of saying that instead of maintaining a steady speed behind them, they accelerated into the back of them. It sounds as though the investigators aren’t much clearer at this point either, though, given that it says they are ‘trying to piece together’ what happened.

[Sriracha]

Struggling to understand the
Struggling to understand the narrative. Was his “failure to maintain his speed” a consequence of colliding with so many cyclists, or did he hit the cyclists because he slowed down?

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