All I am doing is raising the question --for the purpose of educating people about the effects of alcohol --of whether the brothers alcohol level might have impaired their judgement regarding the risk they were taking by choosing to ride their bikes at night on a road where there was traffic (if there hadn't been traffic there wouldn't have been witnesses).
Car vs bike doesn't usually end up well for the bike rider. Were the brothers oblivious to the risk they were taking? Did they not understand it? Right now in The Lounge there's a DU'er who has posted about his bike accident: it was the driver's fault. There's also the story on the thread from another DU'ER of his bike accident which he says was his fault for being young and riding recklessly. They say that riding a bicycle is good for your health. LIARS! - Democratic Underground Forums https://share.google/W3hssQHaRkpoJ8mvn
Locally where I live there is a marvelous walking/biking trail. Not long ago a man on the trail was killed by a car that hit him while he was crossing a place where the trail intersects a road. A bike rider even on a trail is at risk just crossing a road. 'It can happen to any one of us': Gathering remembers cyclist killed in hit-and-run - 9th Street Journal https://share.google/9Ws8mFXtgMgDtw8Fx
All I'm doing is asking the question whether alcohol played a role in the decision they made to ride their bikes--while drunk themselves --at night on a road where there was traffic. They didn't have to be there. If an Uber wasn't an option, surely they could have called a friend or family member to come get them? But maybe being young males was their downfall. Maybe they couldn't acknowledge the limitations on their ability to control events. Maybe they thought there was no risk. We'll never know.
It was a tragic accident.
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