Respectfully snipped....
I was wondering about the gas station as well. The small dark car was in two pics, one with the truck and one with her on her bike. In the photo with the white truck, there is an additional white car in the gas station. It looks like there is a person leaning against the right rear quarter panel of the dark car and another person walking mid-stride behind the white car. Is it telling that investigators have not released information whether or not they have spoken with the people at the gas station and particularly, the people seen in the photo, or am I reading too much into this?
Also... anyone care to venture to guess re: the make/model of cars in the gas station??
RE: riding against traffic - I'm curious about local biking laws. In Oregon we are required to ride with traffic and act, for all intensive purposes, as though we were a car. Is it legal to ride against traffic in LA? I haven't seen the report where her friend said she usually rode against traffic, but I keep seeing it on this board and it just seems strange to me because we receive citations for that here!
At any rate, in the photo, it looks like she is riding in the lane of traffic and not to the side. Are there wide margins or bike lanes on this road?
I believe everything about this case looks sinister, but seeing the position of her bike in these photos does leave a possibility that she could have been struck by a drunk driver. I've had
so many close encounters with cars in broad daylight, while riding in a bike lane, that it doesn't seem too far fetched. Though that begs the question, of course if it did happen to be a drunk driving accident, why they didn't just do a hit and run.