Should be manslaughter at the least, but good on KGUN for actually describing the accident well in the headlines.

A lot of the time, news stations will call it a "bicycle accident" when a Canyonero runs someone over, and imply that it was the person on the bike's fault.

For the homicidal maniac who doesn't have time for serious felony charges but still needs to scratch that itch

driver was charged with misdemeanor Causing Serious Physical Injury/Death by a Moving Violation.

That should not only be a misdemeanor

Looks like:

• the driver shall attend and successfully complete traffic survival school educational sessions
• the driver's license may be suspended for 180 days and no longer than 1 year

28-672 - Causing serious physical injury or death by a Moving Violation

I've noticed that Arizona has a lot of traffic and a lot of very aggressive drivers

Sounds like a decent market for hitmen.

So long as the driver appears sorry and says they didn't see them, it's usually a pass. Cops don't care.

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.

You mean the one state that doesn't celebrate Martin Luther King Day?

If it's a genuine accident, then what does a harsher punishment achieve? People make mistakes. Some people are unfortunate enough that their mistake has grave consequences - doesn't mean they're any more to blame, just unluckier.

Texting and driving is a good example. Every single person who drives has done it at least once in the past and everyone who claims they haven't is lying. What's the difference in the intent of a person like this and one who does end up killing someone while doing so? None. The others simply were luckier. The unlucky ones are not morally more guilty than the others.

Promote the absurdity. Advertise that killing people with a car is not that bad, here in Arizona.