It could happen to me:
"Authorities are trying to learn more details about a fatal accident in which a dog's leash got entangled with a bicycle in a Cook County forest preserve, sending a 68-year-old bicyclist crashing to the ground."
He was on a trail, away from cars. He was wearing a helmet. But somehow a dog leash managed to kill him.
The owner of the dog untangled the leash and left the scene of the accident.
You can't really tell from the linked story how he got tangled. Nowadays, some people do have very long - 50 foot for example - retractable dog leashes. Maybe the owner was on one side of the trail and the dog was on the other? Maybe the dog ran across the trail just as the victim pedaled up to the scene of his demise?
Whatever it was, the dog owner should have had the decency to stick around
after entangling an elderly man to the ground.
2 comments:
Perhaps litigiousness (fear of) trumping decency. Guy stands to get sued to oblivion.
Good point. An over-penalizing legal system inadvertently encourages evasive maneuvers.
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