“She said she didn’t see us. Didn’t see us. She was very, very upset.”
The driver did stop and is not expected to be charged.
This makes me furious, but it’s completely expected.
Cars are the only weapon where you can kill someone without consequence, even if it was pure negligence or entirely on purpose.
Why would you not expect to see other road users at an intersection? You would expect to see a car, why not a cyclist?
Because everybody on the roads are complete idiots and you should always drive accordingly. Don’t trust blinkers “I had it on from the previous turn”, don’t trust lack of em, don’t trust someone slowing down to let you pass "oh I wasn’t letting them pass (and anyways regular drivers cannot ‘give you right of way’). Don’t trust cars at crossings - people pass when others have stopped. Lower cars can sometimes not see you because of the edge of the car door / the thing that the windshield sits in. Higher cars can not see shorter people or kids.
At the end of the day, cars are 2 ton machines that go at very high speeds, a cyclist is basically 80kg + the weight of the bike. Same in trains vs cars.
It’s worthless to have “he had right of way” written on your tombstone.