{"id":261586583,"date":"2013-04-16T14:56:23","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T14:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=261586583"},"modified":"2013-04-16T14:56:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T14:56:23","slug":"bias-against-cyclists-is-rampant-and-unfair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=261586583","title":{"rendered":"Bias against cyclists is rampant and unfair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Michigan Auto Law<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThere were many people who were quite willing to assign blame against him for just riding a bicycle. And there are many people willing to forgive clear negligence if the victim is on a bicycle.<br \/>\nAs a lawyer, the only thing you can do is try to identify these people in voir dire, and try to focus the jury on the choices that the defendant makes that would threaten anyone who was there at that time \u2013 whether they be on a bicycle, in a car, or walking the street as a pedestrian.<br \/>\nThe lawyers defending the trucking company refused to accept any responsibility for his death. They said he caused his own death, and then they said it didn\u2019t really matter because an 83-year-old man isn\u2019t worth very much money. The defense lawyers offered $250,000 before trial and $500,000 when the jury was deliberating.<br \/>\nThe jury awarded a $2.55 million verdict to the estate (He is survived by his 10 children, 38 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren). Yet the jury still found fault on behalf of my client for the way he was riding his bike, even though he was crossing legally and was hit and killed.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nPlease, try and be patient with cyclists as they are riding. Cutting a moment or two from your car ride isn\u2019t worth injuring or killing somebody.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganautolaw.com\/auto-lawyers-blog\/2013\/04\/05\/bias-against-cyclists-is-rampant-and-unfair\/\">https:\/\/www.michiganautolaw.com\/auto-lawyers-blog\/2013\/04\/05\/bias-against-cyclists-is-rampant-and-unfair\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Michigan Auto Law &#8230; There were many people who were quite willing to assign blame against him for just riding a bicycle. And there are many people willing to forgive clear negligence if the victim is on a bicycle. As a lawyer, the only thing you can do is try to identify these people &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=261586583\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bias against cyclists is rampant and unfair&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261586583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261586583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261586583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261586583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261586583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261586583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261586583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}