I originally saw this on SFist (sister site of Torontoist) - but it looks like the YouTube video has been taken down, so I tracked down another version of it for you. Apparently a car driver drove right into a Critical Mass crowd, crushing 3 bikes and injuring 2 people.

It's rather disturbing, but if you want to watch:



Especially disturbing is the fact that although the cyclists asked police to press charges against the driver, the police refused. The police also refused to interview other drivers who said the driver was at fault and only interviewed other people in the offending vehicle.

I just noticed that this happened back in mid-May... but the Bicycle Civil Liberties Union has a lot of media links about it. Apparently, most coverage was not favourable towards the cyclists.

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There are a lot of comments on a separate video with the same footage; almost all of them say the cyclists are at fault. But that doesn't make sense; how would the van be in a crowd of cyclists if it was "set up" or a "ploy"? (i'm not asking anyone who would read this blog, it's more hypothetical)

By  Ed, at 5:25 PM