Authorities said the bicyclist was heading eastbound on Ironwood Hill Drive when he was struck by a blue 2024 Ford Escape that was trying to turn left from westbound Ironwood Hill Drive onto southbound Greasewood Road.

A DUI Unit officer determined the driver was not impaired, but authorities said the driver was charged with misdemeanor Causing Serious Physical Injury/Death by a Moving Violation.

Given that's the driver's only violation of traffic law here, a misdemeanor seems appropriate. The bulk of the blame here lies with the city and its urban design.

Edit: Here's some context for what I mean:

This is the intersection in question. I've drawn the bicyclist's path in blue and the truck's path in purple. The speed limit here is 35 mph, or approximately 55 kph. Look at it on something like Street View if you like.

There is no bicycle infrastructure around here. The gutters that are here are completely unprotected and aren't even marked for bikes. Not only that, but it's crossing a riverbed, making it one of the few places a bicyclist coming from or going to a fairly large suburban area can access the rest of the city (the other way, another mile south, is "Speedway Boulevard", which as you can guess is even less safe).

There should be no world in which bicycles are sharing this infrastructure with cars, and it's the city's fault they have to.

I don't think it's right to put the entire weight of that enormous societal failure on someone who wasn't fully paying attention when they were turning left.