Believe it or not, an actual arrest has occurred as a result of a motorist killing a cyclist recently.
Had this offender been younger and cuter the story may well have been different. But this young lady is hard to feel sympathy for: How many of such loonies are there out there on any given day?
From http://www.kob.com/ :
"The woman accused of running a red light and fatally hitting an
Albuquerque bicyclist was arrested and charged with vehicular homicide
Tuesday.
Memori Hardwick, 20, is accused of running a red light at Washington Street and Indian School Road on May 12 slamming into Matt Trujillo, 36, who was riding his bicycle to work.
Trujillo died two weeks after the accident, succumbing to the massive injuries he sustained during the crash.
Hardwick, a self admitted methamphetamine user, told police she had
been in a rush that morning because she needed to return a car she had
borrowed from her friend.
According to the criminal complaint Hardwick had borrowed the car to
drive to the South Valley to buy crystal methamphetamine but was unable
to find any so she and a friend were on their way back to the Northeast
Heights where they were to return the car.
Hardwick went on to tell police that she had dropped a lit cigarette
inside the car and had looked down to find it. She said when she looked
up she ran the red light, hitting Trujillo.
Hardwick then fled the scene explaining that she had panicked, thinking
she killed Trujillo, and her and her friend took off scared they would
go to jail for murder.
Police were able to catch up to Hardwick shortly after she fled near Constitution Avenue and La Veta Drive.
On Tuesday Hardwick was arrested and charged with vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of an accident."
It's very doubtful anything will come of this, but at least she was arrested. It would appear the best way to get away with murder is to put your intended victim on a bicycle and run over him. Almost no one is ever tried, much less convicted, of killing a cyclist.
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