US cyclist could face six years in jail for killing pedestrian

Exactly. The guy deserves a prison sentence for his stupidity leading to a person losing his life. Is it too much to expect the same when motorists behave in a reckless way?

If he was driving a car in the UK he'd get a £60 fine and a six month suspended sentence at the most, with lots of friends and internet posters saying the old biddy was partly responsible.

As for a campaign to protect peds from cyclists (helmets? hi-viz body armour?), let's put this in perspective. According to my local paper, at least 24 people have died falling into the river Severn in Shrewsbury since 2006, most of them people who are too drunk to walk after a night on the town.

The same newspaper states that 126 KSIs on the region's roads in the past 3 years were due to drink- or drug-driving. I very much doubt many of the culprits will have seen the inside of a prison.

San Fran is douchebagistan... it is a very sad town. Logic doesn't exist. Oxygen thieves run the town. Justice should prevail, but i have my doubts. The helmet 'eulogy' says it all... selfish, ego-centric, 'don't judge me bro!', pathetic morons... SF is a breeding ground for idiots; but with a little luck and plastic surgery, you can become the first female Speaker of the House of Representatives. Thoughts with the Hui family for their loss.

What the reports here don't really bring out is that the inciddent occurred at about 8:20 am on 29 March - a Thursday. In other words, slap in the middle of morning rush-hour. Apart from the other observations abotu whether he did or did not run red lights prior to the incident, and whether he was exceeding the speed limit at the time, what was he doing racing like this at a time when it must have been obvious that hazards would be everywhere?

It is hard to say whether he wrote the post attributed to him - some details don't tally with the witnesses and CCTV - but if he really did say his helmet saved his life, that has to be one of the best arguments I have heard for not wearing a helmet. A form of social Darwinism might then have eliminated him from the gene pool to the benefit of humanity in general.

Of course, it can probably be scientifically shown (perhaps already has) that people who believe like *rses on bikes also behave like *rses behind the wheel of a car - towards fellow cyclists too.

The guy is an idiot for racing through an area with lights and junctions, and has a complete lack of respect for the welfare of other road users, both during and after the even. He has as good as hung himself with such arrogance

what the SF Chronicle said at the end was this:
"Last year, 17 pedestrians were killed and about 800 injured during collisions with vehicles in The City."
This seems to imply that these statistics are relevant to the article at hand, when they presumably are statistics for all vehicles, motor and other.

The relative cyclist-/motor vehicle-caused stats were from _this_ article, not the SF Chronicle.

I wonder if this guy was riding a fixie w/o brakes, I noticed a prevalence of them when I was in SF in 2009 and was a bit surprised, as it is a very hilly city.

Sad for the person who died and I hope justice is served. The interesting thing about this article is the car/bike relative danger balance achieved by putting the statistics at the end. Perhaps the SF Examiner should be invited to give training courses to the UK press?