"Swanson’s mother and aunts had pushed hard to have him charged criminally in DC after the accident. But a long Metropolitan Police Department investigation concluded Swanson most likely rode her bicycle into the truck. That conclusion is fiercely disputed by the promising young student’s family."
Outrageous! Get right hooked by a truck and the cyclist is at fault for not yielding. What ever happened to:
§ 21-303(c) Overtaking vehicles going in the same direction.- The driver of a vehicle overtaking another vehicle that is going in the same direction, until safely clear of the overtaken vehicle, may not drive any part of his vehicle directly in front of the overtaken vehicle.
Note that the DC police made the same wrong flop of logic of who did the "action" as in the Yates case: "The tanker truck that the cyclist struck was a large one. The cyclist struck it in the rear." https://www.baltimorespokes.org/article.php?story=20101202133743715
We really need to correct this kind of misunderstanding by the police and hopefully that is in the works.
Related: Cyclists ‘left unprotected by police and courts’ https://www.baltimorespokes.org/article.php?story=20110109095139244
Driver in Swanson Crash gets 31 months – for entering U.S. illegally
https://www.thewashcycle.com/2011/01/driver-in-swanson-crash-gets-31-months-for-entering-us-illegally.htmloldId.20110115085825944
Biking in Baltimore