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GMC Sierra it is, perfect for "accidents"
- TBF, the type of vehicle doesn't really matter. If you want to murder someone, do it with a car and just claim you didn't see the person, that you are shocked, and it's just an "accident". Nobody will question this.
  
  Especially if the person you murdered is on a bicycle, or has ever ridden a bicycle.
  
  Do that, I dare you, see how it actually works out for you 🤣
  
  I don't have a license nor a car so it might be more suspicious in the first place. I also don't want to murder anybody. But seeing how our society considers deaths cause by cars as normal and unavoidable "accidents", I'll probably still have more chances of getting away with it.
  Like, sorry, I didn't see them, I'm just learning, it was an accident. The person just jumped in front of the car, in dark clothing, with no reflective gear.
  https://www.vice.com/en/article/you-can-kill-anyone-you-want-with-your-car-as-long-as-you-dont-really-mean-it/
  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328812169_If_You_Want_to_Get_Away_with_Murder_Use_Your_Car_A_Discursive_Content_Analysis_of_Pedestrian_Traffic_Fatalities_in_News_Headlines
  Deaths caused by cars are horribly normalized.
  
  Go ahead try it. You've linked an opinion piece and a paper on news headlines. You didn't just Google those and then linked then before fully understanding in order to try and win an Internet agreement did you? You also ignore that the overall clearance rate for murder starts under 50% and convictions below 30 right, but you expect that to be a higher clearance for bikes?
  
  No, I linked those because I have had this argument for years now and it's tiresome. People driving cars can clearly get away with much more than if they were not in a car.
  The last incident I just read about was a cyclist that was killed by someone in a car. He was in a group of 10 and the driver claims she didn't see him. No charges, it was "obviously" an accident. Someone is dead, killed by someone driving a car, and it's no biggie. It's just an "accident".
  So, whatever the clearance, either it's a huge pickup or a sedan, it doesn't really matter if the driver can see people in front of them or not, they can just say they didn't see them, it's an "accident".
  There are indeed statistics on how clearance and the height of a vehicle can be more deadly, but again, it doesn't really matter because nobody cares about deaths caused by cars.
  
  👌👍

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