By adamg on Wed., 10/17/2018 - 8:56 am
Jonathan Costa, 27, of Brookline, faces arraignment today in connection with a crash at the rotary where the Arborway and Centre Street meet, in which a bicyclist was thrown to the road, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Costa is scheduled to face charges of negligent operation of a motor vehicle and leaving the scene of a collision causing injury in West Roxbury Municipal Court, the DA's office says.
Innocent, etc.
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Silly
By C
Thu, 10/18/2018 - 8:33am
Watch the video again.
The biker is 100% at fault here. No hand signals to indicate he was going around the rotary? What, is the guy driving supposed to read his mind and know where he was going.
This should be a 50/50 case at most. No way the driver should put in the jail because the idiot on the bike doesn't know how to follow rules.
Couple of things
By adamg
Thu, 10/18/2018 - 9:26am
First, it's a she. Second, part of what the driver is charged with is leaving the scene of an accident.
And third (OK, that's more than a couple), what signals, exactly, does a bicyclist use to signal he or she is going around a rotary? Do motorists signal they are going around a rotary?
I believe
By Waquiot
Thu, 10/18/2018 - 10:22am
The rules on rotaries is that one is to assume, absent markings, that all traffic in the rotary is continuing in the rotary. It is incumbent on the user of the rotary (usually motor vehicles, but in this case bicycles) to indicate when they are leaving the rotary, not when they are remaining in the rotary. Moreover, vehicles are supposed to leave the rotary from the outside lane, while this driver left from an inside lane.
I signal left when not taking
By anon
Thu, 10/18/2018 - 11:55pm
I signal left when not taking an exit from a rotary, especially if it's an exit most people take.
A problem with rotaries is that it's impossible to read a car's "body language" to see if it's taking an exit or not. Everyone's coming around a curve by definition, and taking the exit means turning your wheels the other way at the last moment.
If I'm staying in the rotary, I want entering cars to know I'm coming across their path. Otherwise I have to slow way down or stop to be safe (even though I have the right of way), since if they're moving at all, I don't know if they're going to enter the rotary into my path.
Adam's too polite.
By frobot
Thu, 10/18/2018 - 10:13am
Go read the fucking drivers manual you halfwit.
Question:
By MattyC
Thu, 10/18/2018 - 2:55pm
Do you put on your left turn signal when you are in a rotary?
Of course you don't you ignorant shit. Wanting above want for it to be the big bad cyclists fault, and needing to force some bullshit nonexistent rules of the road on them to make it real in your tiny brain doesn't actually make it real.
When you close your eyes, do you think it's nighttime?
How did he get caught?
By anon
Fri, 10/19/2018 - 5:55am
How did he get caught?
The driver is at fault.
By whyaduck
Fri, 10/19/2018 - 8:34am
A rotary can be dangerous for a variety of reasons. I can't tell you how many times, when driving, that I have been almost hit by drivers who do not or forget to yield as they are coming off the off ramp.
(Because of this and other reasons, as a cyclist, I would always position myself behind a vehicle (i.e. let him/her make the turn first) if I was proceeding around the rotary, just to be on the safe side.)
In this case, however, as he was in the rotary, with the cyclist to his right, I do not understand how he could not of seen her. She was actually head of him as he approached her. As a driver, I would of held back and let her negotiate the turn around the rotary. As it appears, he cut her off. He did not signal that he was making a right to get off the rotary. He braked before turning off (clearly seen in video). Not sure why he needed to break; slowing down before turn off would of have worked. (Or perhaps he was going a bit too fast to negotiate the turn off and/or he did not want to hit the cyclist and tried to stop before the impact?) As that happened, both the car and the cyclist collided. There is no way in heck that the driver did not realize he hit someone.
And, then, he drove off.
Sorry, dude, you lose.
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