Posted on 09/02/2009 8:52:45 AM PDT by OneVike
Video taken from inside a city bus shows a Wisconsin state lawmaker running a red light and smashing into a bicyclist.
Rep. Fred Clark, a Democrat, was ticketed by Madison police for running a red light on Aug. 18. The video was released this week by Madison Metro.
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Then there is the idea that a Democrat is actually driving an evil SUV, talk about being a hypocrite.
What?? A democrat who didn’t share the road??
A ticket for running a red light, but no ticket for smashing the bicyclist???? Am I missing something here?
A Madison police report says Clark told an officer “I was just not paying attention.”
...A metaphor for how most Dem reps and sens are operating when on the job.
Clark was in the wrong, but the cyclist acted stupidly. The light changed less than three seconds before he rode through the intersection without looking both ways.
If that was the cyclist’s SOP, he was going to get hit at some point anyway.
But this was still Clark’s fault. It’s the motorist’s responsibility to not hit anybody, not even people acting stupidly.
“Clark was in the wrong, but the cyclist acted stupidly. The light changed less than three seconds before he rode through the intersection without looking both ways.”
My father taught me that everyone on the road is careless except you — drive like that.
When riding my road bike, I always look out for cars and try to make eye contact with folks at stops. Sometimes they just don’t see you and pull out, so I proceed with caution if I don’t catch their eye.
As a cyclist myself, I say HOLD ON THERE!
I am expected to obey traffic laws, and I expect others to do so, also
if I was in a car, and th elight changed 3 SECONDS before I got to the light, I would expect the other cars to STOP also!
Same with a bicycle! I would EXPECT cars to STOP at red lights!
I would just peddle through like any other vehicle that had the right of way!
There is NO WAY the Cyclist has any fault in this!
Lots of fault.
1. The red-light runner.
2. The biker who flew through the intersection at full speed just after (2 sec) the light changed, hidden by the bus, and blind to cross traffic. I don’t even do that in a big sedan.
3. Possibly the traffic department for setting yellow lights too short to clear the intersection (this happens when they like the red light camera ticket revenue).
There is NO WAY the Cyclist has any fault in this!
He was as smart as a teenage girl in a miniskirt who has the legal right to prance around the bar district at 2AM, then takes no responsibility for the bad consequences.
Of course, absolutely NO MENTION what-so-ever of the party affliation. Told hubby after the story ran, he had to be a democrap 'cuz if he were a pubbie, that little tidbit would have LED THE NEWS !!!
Bunch of clymers all of them.
BOGUS Hokum!
The Cyclist was OBEYING THE LAW, he was ON THE RIGHT as he should be
He went through a GREEN LIGHT
He had every right to do what he did
the DEMOCRAT who hit him was Speeding and ignoring the traffic light
The Cyclist is completely innocent!
If the cyclist was Republican, it’s his fault. Or Bush’s.
So was the gal in the miniskirt.
Apparently, you are differentiating between having fault and acting stupidly. That means you did not read my post carefully. I said the motorist was at fault, but the cyclist acted stupidly.
If you’re trying to say the cyclist didn’t act stupidly, then you just continue to barrel through intersections without looking both ways, and I’ll continue to say that is acting stupidly. Maybe someone will speak at your funeral and let everyone know it wasn’t your fault you got nailed by the woman putting on her makeup as she ran the red light.
You’ll still be dead, though.
I’m sure that he will claim that he was “rushing to vote” on an important bill and is therefore immune as a “legislator” to any charges. Where have we seen this kind of defense happen with a Dem before?
Oh, that’s right. It was a Kennedy.
Clark was in the wrong, but the cyclist acted stupidly. The light changed less than three seconds before he rode through the intersection without looking both ways”
How long is the light cycle at those intersections???
Some I have encountered are very short,
3 seconds could amount to 10% of the cycle.
Cyclists should be more cautious, but drives like Clark need a tune up.
Irrelevant.
Your expectation has much more dire consequences when it is not met than it does for someone inside a car. Sure, most people obey traffic laws most of the time, but are you willing to stake disability or death against a 99.999% chance in your favor? Personally, I don't like those stakes, even with such good odds.
That’s lame. The cyclist was not to blame at all. There is a pause between when a light turns red and the cross light turns green, so there was more than a 2 second delay. Besides that the cyclist broke no laws and if he had been driving a car you wouldn’t have said boo about how fast he shot into the intersection. I don’t ride bikes BTW(not on the highway at any rate).
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