This Is Terrifying: Enraged Motorist Plows Through Crowd of Cyclists

This has happened before, and not everybody survived that time.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/picture-captures-deadly-bike-crash/story-e6freuy9-1111116521584

The driver in that case was drunk and asleep.

They got what they deserved – tit for tat. They took the law into their own hands, he took the law into his. They took a known risk and paid the price. Let this be a lesson to any bicyclists who block traffic for the sake of blocking traffic – or for any other reason.

That is *HARDLY* tit for tat. Did you even WATCH the video??? The dude plowed full speed right through the crowd! Considering that none of them were physically threatening the driver of the car, it’s ridiculous to think his actions were somehow justified. What kind of “windshield perspective” world do you live in!

Attention Lou G: Your logic is so faulty and inhumane its despicable. If governments had your flawed morals, there would be millions of people all over the world dead because they took to the streets to protest something. They didn’t harm anyone, he obviously tried to hurt and kill people. You obviously have never been to Brazil and experienced the poverty and lack of adequate public transportation there, which is what they were protesting. People like you make me think that the human species is not evolving, you should be ashamed of yourself.

you horrible piece of crap. what a barbaric view.

I can’t tell whether you have serious mental problems or you’re just a pathetic troll.
Either way you need help.

ROTFLMAO!

You people would think I actually did something other than write a few words on an obscure comment board. Hooked some really big ones…

Bicyclists, don’t block the street, even to protest! This could happen to you!

Some creepy drivers do the stupidest things, like honking at bikers from behind. That only distracts the cyclists and can cause them to get into an accident. Some “oil burners” have no respect at all for cyclists, they act as if there is no one’s life sitting on a bike. Proves that riding bikes gives people better attitudes than the “driver’s rage” types.

The bicyclists weren’t blocking the streets, and it wasn’t really a protest either — it’s a bike ride through town using public streets. Bikes are considered “vehicles” in the sense that motorists are required to share the road with them and bicyclists must obey the majority of traffic laws. You can even see in the video that the bicyclists were clearly moving forward, NOT standing still intending to block traffic.

A slow pace is hardly reason to plow someone over with a ton of machinery, particularly when they have a legal right to be on the road.

What the driver did is the equivalent of a football linebacker charging through a crowd of people on a sidewalk because they weren’t walking fast enough.

Are you normally this ignorant, or only when you’re trolling for attention?

“What the driver did is the equivalent of a football linebacker charging through a crowd of people on a sidewalk because they weren’t walking fast enough.”

Except that it isn’t.

Before you get your panties all in wad over my comments, consider that nobody was seriously hurt, because I did before I commented. And it’s not as if any comments posted here are actually relevant.

Despite what you claim, they (Critical Mass) were protesting, they knew they were in the middle of the street disrupting traffic, and that was their purpose. The participants reported that the driver was behind them for two block before he drove through them. They knew they were blocking him. People who play with fire will get burned. Don’t be stupid and try to block automobile traffic with your bicycle because this can and will happen when you piss-off some nut, regardless of the traffic laws or your idealistic protest. Use your head for something other than falling onto from your bicycle.

Extending my linebacker analogy — even if no one was seriously hurt by someone charging through the crowd, and even if those people were a slow-moving group on the sidewalk, does that justify him to charge through the crowd, risking injury? The fact that no one *was* seriously injured doesn’t excuse his actions.

Critical Mass gatherings are a protest in the sense of a demonstration — more like a “million man march” than “state capitol sit-in”. They had every legal right to be exactly where they were, doing what they were doing (I’m being somewhat presumptuous in assuming that Brazilian laws are SIMILAR to our freedoms here in the US). Bikes, whether motorized or pedal-powered, are allowed to be on the road. They are *not* allowed to be on interstates or high-speed roadways; if this had happened on a highway, then I would agree with you.

There is a total asymmetry between what they were doing to him (perhaps causing him inconvenience, frustrating him, whatever) and what he did to them (causing them physical harm). Cars are not “more entitled” to use public roads simply because they are larger and heavier. There were many ways he could have reacted to this situation that would not have resulted in harm (turning off to a side street and taking a detour, for example, or riding it out and filing a civil lawsuit against the organization for damages, or any number of more civil exercises).

Speaking hypothetically — if he HAD killed someone, would your opinion on the matter be any different? Would you see it as the biker’s own fault if he got himself killed by an angry motorist?

i hope somebody kills that motherfuucker !