Cycling in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

Just a hypothetical thought experiment.

A rabbit bounds erratically out of a bush beside a trail, and a cyclist hits and kills it, because there was no time to react.

Who’s fault was it?

Should the cyclist bear the entire weight of the title of killing the rabbit?

Or would a more reasonable discussion perhaps take place based on physics and circumstances?

I find this a misleading comparison.  The cyclist did not "bound erratically out of a bush"...they were riding along in a lane of traffic, where one should expect to see other road traffic.

Nobody is taking an absolutist point of view here, I said any driver should be able to avoid a cyclist cycling according to the rules of the road.  If instead a cyclist darts out of a bush in front of a moving vehicle that cannot possibly stop, then I won't blame the operator of that vehicle.