Unbelievable

I know that cyclists and motorists have a tumultuous relationship over sharing the road. However, this story takes it to a whole new level. I cannot fathom how someone can get so enraged during a heated discussion that he could kill another man. What Michael Bryant did is reprehensible and inexcusable! It also reminds cyclists that you will always lose a fight with a car and sometimes it is better to ride away than try to express your opinion. It really is a sad story.

The horrific Michael Bryant case, in which the former Ontario attorney-general has been charged in the death of a bicycle courier in Toronto, has been tidily summed up just about everywhere as our own Bonfire of the Vanities . It's an apt comparison, because beneath the facts lies a bubbling cauldron of social resentments, mistrust of authority and other prejudices that may well tell us more about ourselves than about anything else.
Here are those facts: Mr. Bryant, 43, Ontario's former attorney-general and a political golden boy, has been charged with criminal negligence causing death, and dangerous driving following the death of Darcy Allan Sheppard, 33, a bicycle courier with whom he had an altercation Monday evening along a tony stretch of Toronto's Bloor Street. Mr. Sheppard was seen clinging to Mr. Bryant's car and eventually died after he fell off.
The full story can be read at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/michael-bryant-the-story-none-of-us-can-stop-talking-about/article1274909/