Early Sunday morning a man riding a bicycle was hit by a car in a parking lot and was seriously injured. The driver did not stick around to take responsibility for what he had done. This was apparently a road-rage incident. As it turns out, the driver did eventually turn himself in to authorities and admitted what he had done.
What blew my mind was that when the story hit the Twitter Boards, someone commented that it was a sad illustration of why we need better infrastructure! Better infrastructure!? As if a bicycle lane or sharrow would have prevented this.
No, this is not infrastructure...it's responsibility. I think it's sad that people are so inundated with fictional stories from television that they instinctively feel like they can run someone down with their car and then drive away. Even if they didn't intentionally run someone down, driving away from an accident is just as irresponsible.
For the record, I am not against bicycle infrastructure. I don't believe it is terribly effective, but I'm not against it.
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