Annoyed with the reporting and police commentary - "riding a street-type bicycle which are pretty fast", "traveling at a high rate of speed", "down a steep hill", "continued straight from the turn lane", "cyclist crashed into SUV", etc., implying it was the David's fault.
Barnes westbound to Miller is hardly a steep hill. I top-out with my street-type bike at about 35mph coming down Skyline to Barnes which is steeper. And, even at a "pretty fast high rate of speed" of 35mph, David would have been at the speed limit for Barnes.
At the Barnes/Miller intersection, since there is no bike lane between the straight and right turn lanes, what is a cyclist to do? Move into the straight lane and get run over by impatient drivers in that lane? Or, ride just to the right of the straight lane, which at this intersection would be the left side of the right turn lane, where drivers prefer so that cyclist stay out of their way?
The driver said he thought David was going to turn right since he was in the turn lane. But, David presumably did not signal a turn. And, was is reasonable to assume that David was going to cut that turn at such a high rate of speed?
Regardless, even if David were going to turn, he still would have had the right-of-way, and given the location of the collision in the intersection, the driver still would have run over David.
How about this headline instead, "Another inattentive driver turns left into oncoming traffic colliding with and critically injuring a cyclist"?
But, yes, I know, assuming a lower limit to driver stupidity can prove fatal.
Best to David.