“It’s so sad, so I’m just devastated. It shouldn’t have happened, and I heard an e-bike was involved. Those e-bikes are out of control. They spook me all the time,” said Cathy Murray of Burlingame.
“It’s so sad, so I’m just devastated. It shouldn’t have happened, and I heard an e-bike was involved. Those e-bikes are out of control. They spook me all the time,” said Cathy Murray of Burlingame.
I don’t think you know what murderous intent or psychopath means. There’s no intent behind a panic response.
If it’s not intentional, it’s deadly incompetence. You have a responsibility to handle a several ton vehicle safely. If you cannot do that, it honestly doesn’t matter if it was intentional or not - someone is still dead, and you are still to blame. Replace ‘car’ with ‘gun’ and this would be an uncontroversial take. Only with cars are people somehow willing to accept the risk of fucking murdering someone just to make their commute more convenient.
Right, that’s why there’s a criminal charge for it called vehicular manslaughter
Panic respond? She’s in the parking lot, a panic respond would be going down the car and scold the kids, not drive from the parking lot across the road and toward the kids outside the restaurant.
Do you panic the same way?
I don’t, but hitting the gas instead of the brakes is a very common panic response.
I think you’re misinterpreting the article. The kids she hit and the e-bike rider are different people.
She got hit, panicked, floored it, and hit unrelated children. She didn’t get hit by the bike and say, “I’m gonna go murder some children now.”
She’s guilty of vehicular manslaughter, for sure, but absolutely not murder.
Huh, i think i did.
People getting their pedals confused happens with frightening regularity. She probably meant to slam the brakes but her foot was over the wrong pedal, and in her panic and confusion failed to understand that the vehicle was accelerating because she was on the wrong pedal. Absolutely a bad driver, obviously, but that doesn’t make it wilful or malicious.
It sounds like they think the kids she hit were the ones riding the e-bike.