Cycling in Waterloo Region

[ijmorlan]

First class assault, or even attempted homicide, given that it was deliberate.

(Tangent, there is manslaughter vs. homicide, so is the an 'attempted…' of each as well?)

It's okay, they used a car as a weapon, that makes it legal.

Completely agreed! How is an apparently deliberate act just “careless driving”? Especially with failing to remain — that to me screams “guilty mind” which implies much worse than “careless driving”.

I suppose the answer is probably that it would be hard to prove it was deliberate. But after a dispute, the assumption should be that a collision is probably deliberate. If it was done with a knife the perpetrator couldn’t get away with “I got out my knife to cut my lunch and just happened to cut off his finger!”.