Side note: drivers who lie about how accidents happen (and not just having a fuzzy memory, but flat-out lying), should face severe consequences.

Lives are ruined by bad drivers, and then to falsely blame the victim is just evil.

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.caOP
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    12 天前

    You’re too kind. I honestly believe they do that (lie) because there’s a very good chance they’ll get away with it.

    I mean, it was only because the cyclist tracks their ride that the driver was caught lying. If that data didn’t exist, it would be the driver’s word against the cyclist, and because of his injuries, he couldn’t remember.

    Just imagine had the cyclist died, the family would live out their lives believing their loved one was the cause of his own death. So fucked up. Liars should be reamed out by the court.

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      12 天前

      I didn’t mean it to be kind. I meant that the driver could actually be that detached from reality.

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        @limelight79 @Showroom7561 Yeah: ‘I looked and they weren’t there, therefore the only possible way I could have hit them is if they did this weird and implausible manoeuvre’

        People will invent stories to tell themselves to feel good. They then will tell everyone else the story like it is fact.

        People make for terrible evidence.

        Log data with a computer. It is much harder to trick yourself this way.