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Does The Law Go Too Easy On Drivers Who Kill Cyclists?

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Daniel Duane, contributing editor for Men's Journal, recently posed a provocative question in the New York Times: Is it okay to kill cyclists?

His answer: An even more provocative "yes."

Duane cites statistics to claim that even as cities work to create new bike lanes, laws are stuck in the past. Drivers are rarely punished for hitting cyclists, even when the drivers are at fault.

"If you kill a cyclist, if you're driving a car and you run over a cyclist, unless you are blatantly drunk enough for somebody to give you a breathalyzer test, or flee the scene, your chances of being prosecuted are virtually none. This is true, believe it or not, even if you've clearly run a stop sign, or even a stop light, or clearly been speeding," Duane tells Here & Now's Robin Young.

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This segment aired on November 15, 2013.

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