Every time I see a comment like this, referring to this incident: "they consider this is a big scar to the motorcycling community" it causes me the biggest roll eyes of all time. I just don't get how anyone can actually correlate that the one incident has anything at all to do with the other subject. If you gave it two seconds thought, you would recall that people in cars have hit and run and killed pedestrians many times in the past. You have heard of this happening have you not?
I think what is more at the crux here, is that people aren't able to properly communicate their disgust and dismay when crap like this happens in the real world. And as riders, we tend to feel/assume a greater camaraderie amongst ourselves, so when something with a level of injustice that causes such a tragic outcome, we are outraged. And spontaneous outrage often creates a bit of a brain fart. Fortunately, we don't encounter the triggers often enough to find just the perfect way to express our contempt.
But for once and for all, please do not keep associating this incident with riders and motorcycles. Non riders or anyone else reading this who also are dealing with the same outrage may be on the fence with their thoughts on where to attempt to lay blame. By members here suggesting that it has anything to do with motorcycles instead of it being a isolated incident of its own, might actually influence the general public into going "hey ya....those bastard bikers".
I respectfully ask that you think about it and stop considering this having anything at all to do with motorcycling and riders.
