human909 wrote:Part of the problem is that every time a cyclist gets sideswiped by a vehicle and ends up under the wheels the incident is describe as the cyclist fell under the wheels. A belief that cyclists fall over is being perpetrated when in fact they are being hit by the vehicles.
And every car crash is described as an 'accident', and it was never caused by the driver but the car 'leaving the road' completely of it's own volition .
IMO if you kill another person while operating a vehicle, the onus should be on that person to prove they couldn't have avoided it, not for the prosecution to prove that it was their fault.