From: Ben Kaufman on
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2010/06/28/14548891.html

CANDIAC, Que. A 16-year-old girl and her 59-year-old father were killed when
their motorcycle collided with the car of a woman who had stopped to allow ducks
to cross a highway. .....


From: J. Clarke on
On 6/29/2010 10:26 PM, Ben Kaufman wrote:
> http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2010/06/28/14548891.html
>
> CANDIAC, Que. A 16-year-old girl and her 59-year-old father were killed when
> their motorcycle collided with the car of a woman who had stopped to allow ducks
> to cross a highway. .....

I hate to say it, but hitting a _stopped_ car is not a "cager F.U.",
it's a rider F.U.


From: sean_q_ on
Ben Kaufman wrote:

> CANDIAC, Que. A 16-year-old girl and her 59-year-old father were killed when
> their motorcycle collided with the car of a woman who had stopped to allow ducks
> to cross a highway. .....

So... a motorcycle collides with a stationary object.
To wit, a car. Without knowing more details about this
tragedy I can't help wondering if the rider was paying
due care and attention.

To economize on processing, our minds tend to make
assumptions about the things we see. Most likely
the bike operator saw the car and assumed it was moving.
After all, cars do tend to move. Especially on highways.

However it's hard to believe that Quebec (or any other
provincial law) prohibits a driver from stopping
to avoid colliding with wildlife.

SQ

From: brad herschel on
On Jun 29, 10:26 pm, Ben Kaufman <spaXm-mXe-anXd-paXy-5000-
doll...(a)pobox.com> wrote:
> http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2010/06/28/14548891.html
>
> CANDIAC, Que.  A 16-year-old girl and her 59-year-old father were killed when
> their motorcycle collided with the car of a woman who had stopped to allow ducks
> to cross a highway. .....

Obviously, the 59 year old father was defective.
From: Ben Kaufman on
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:34:56 -0400, "J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet(a)cox.net> wrote:

>On 6/29/2010 10:26 PM, Ben Kaufman wrote:
>> http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2010/06/28/14548891.html
>>
>> CANDIAC, Que. A 16-year-old girl and her 59-year-old father were killed when
>> their motorcycle collided with the car of a woman who had stopped to allow ducks
>> to cross a highway. .....
>
>I hate to say it, but hitting a _stopped_ car is not a "cager F.U.",
>it's a rider F.U.
>

If you voluntarily do something that is expressly prohibited then it is your
F.U. In this case the article states: Quebec law prohibits stopping a vehicle
on a highway. I can understand that she didn't want to hit the birds, she
should have pulled over rather than stopping in the middle of the road.

This is not to say that the rider was presented with an impossible to avoid
situation but it was the cager's action that created the dangerous situation.

Ben