Eliminate Bias on Road

In your May 21 issue was an article describing a car-bicycle collision which stated, “CHP officers have not yet decided whether to cite a Newbury Park woman who crossed over double yellow lines on Potrero Road in Newbury Park and struck a bicyclist, critically injuring him.”

The woman was passing another car on a curve, crossed double yellow lines and critically injured a bicyclist (he lost a kidney, suffered broken bones and damage to vital organs, according to your article) and the CHP doesn’t know whether to issue a citation?

If I may offer a suggestion to the CHP: Get over your bias about cyclists because the vehicle code gives us the right and responsibilities of a motor vehicle, remember that the same code states it is against the law to cross a double yellow line and get out that citation book and start writing. I presume a citation would have been written if she had collided with another motor vehicle under those same conditions.

KERMIT HEID

Moorpark