My eye was caught by the wording of "and her unborn baby," which is often used by anti-abortion people to describe a fetus, in order to push their agenda.

Having read the article: The cyclist was 7 months pregnant, and declared DOA when the ambulance arrived at the hospital.

The baby must have been delivered by a post-mortem emergency C-section, because she died in the NICU a couple days later.

So she was a newborn premature baby when she died, but not when the car (and arguably the dangerous infrastructure) killed her mother.

I'll allow it.

It's impossible to know whether this tragedy could have been prevented if the bike lanes were still there.

It is possible to extrapolate though. While it looks like the bike lanes were only paint, they did provide a wider space to ride in since they replaced a driving lane. Of course this was all undone when drivers got upset. I hope those people are found and interviewed now that these deaths have occurred.

What makes this worse is that she was riding with her whole family, and they had to witness it.

That's maybe what I hate most about this country.

Freedom is equated with convenience, and absolutely nothing is allowed to come between a person and their convenience, or it is felt as a breach of their liberty, even if it is a significant public good. (Hence why we saw so much fighting during COVID.)

But is the bike lobby willing to support my political career to the car lobbies extent? If not why should i care? /s

Somebody is gonna use this to claim ebikes are unsafe and thus every bike should have a license and registration attached along with a massive yearly fee (yes I know somebody who unironically said this because she refuses to admit cars could ever be the problem)

A known to be a poorly designed intersection. Bike lanes that were removed years earlier over driver complaints. And an 87 year old driver, not under the influence of anything (except fucking time).

Just straight plowed through the victim from behind, because how else would it have gone with the fucking road design all throughout this wasteland?

There's so many goddamn layers that shouldn't have congealed into this goddamn system, responsible for this pointless death.

[principal skinner meme] "no, it's the ebikes that are dangerous!"

also, why point out that its an ebike? Totally irrelevant.... ahe could have been on rollerblades and it would be the same outcome

These e-bikes are out of control, we must ban them /s

Important correction: If it's unborn, it's definitionally not a baby. It's (at most) a fetus.

Inb4 "why is this important": Referring to pregnancies as "unborn babies" is part of the systemic oppression of women.