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Originally Posted by Midnight_tinkerer
The problem here is that we do not know what the driver was thinking / doing. Perhaps they have had this rider terrorising their street with his antics, endangering their children, waking them up in the middle of the night, and passing them in traffic dangerously. Perhaps they were just sick of bike riders pulling this s**t and decided to do a close passing fly by on the rider to scare him a little, and it went horribly wrong. We just don't know.
I am sick of the use of the term "cager" in a bigoted fashion.
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from what i can tell there are two main options for what the driver in the vehicle was thinking
1) unaware. should be cited for reckless endangerment and attempted vehicular manslaughter 2. because their actions were completely unsafe and could have easily caused death due to negligence regardless of other circumstances (doing a wheelie or whatever)
2) intentional. this is called attempted murder. if they had seen that bike before it could be murder 2. or manslaughter 1. (caught in the heat of the moment) it would only be murder 1 (premeditated) if they went out specifically looking for that guy and had a plan to hit him. anyway, regardless of why you want to murder that person, attempting to run someone over with a vehicle is precisely that. attempted murder.