As soon as I read the title I started speculating about what could be happening in a situation like this.

The one major point that to me appears mostly overlooked is she's lobotomized. Just because she can articulate morality doesn't mean she has the impulse control to adhere to it or the ability to predict the outcome of an action. In my opinion, her history of behavioral problems suggests she needs far more supervision than she receives.

Where I live, it's illegal to ride your bike on the sidewalk, but the penalty isn't death.

The fact that she just walked off to go shopping. Doesn't sound like she had any remorse.

I know this woman. She came to our town one day and berated anyone who was walking and using their phones. She took it upon herself to police the sidewalks. It landed her in jail. I'll always remember her for screaming at me what a "little bastard" I was.

The elderly cyclist was a retired midwife, she spent her whole life helping people for it to end so awfully, so very sad ❤

Notice how the pedestrian was walking in the middle of the "pavement" and making no attempt to share the sidewalk. To me, this showed an attitude of "owning" the whole of the sidewalk, and a clear intent that she was not about to give the cyclist room - and had every intention blocking her and/or forcing her into the street. Then, as the cyclist passed, she very clearly "assisted" her into traffic. There was plenty of room for both ladies, but no, this "entitled" pedestrian was going to make a point - with deadly consequences. Then, she fled the scene with wanton disregard for the injury she caused and then lied to police. She deserves a lot more than three years IMHO.

You never know what people are going to do! She's walking in the CENTER of the sidewalk, acting like she owns it.

Having the right of way doesn't grant you the right to put other people at risk. The fact Auriol causally walked off and went shopping after someone died proves she has no empathy after what she did.

As an avid cyclist, whenever I feel uncertain about safety, I slow to a stop, for my own safety. I don't condemn Celia, but I would have stopped, waited for Arial to pass, then rode away.

Those on here defending Auriol by saying 'it's illegal to ride on the pavement' may technically be correct. However, it's also illegal to protest in the middle of the road, but drivers can't just mow them down, can they?

I don't ride a bike anymore. If you ride in the street, you battle vehicles, if you ride on sidewalks you deal with angry pedestrians. There's really no place for bikes anymore.

People often say, he/she/they will have to "live with that for the rest of their lives". A silly auto response, given so many ppl today, can careless of others. She went grocery shopping afterwards, didn't stay around, didn't try to help, didn't care. So "she" will have little to no problems the rest of her life!

The pedestrian made deliberate contact with the cyclist. As a result of that, the cyclist rode off the sidewalk and crashed into the street where she was hit by a motor vehicle and died on the scene. Meanwhile the pedestrian simply walked away. The pedestrian caused the unnecessary death.

She was "flinching" out long before the lady came close to her, and then she left the scene when the victim was hit.

If you look at Auriol's back in the last frame she's visible, it looks like she actually turned towards the bicyclist and leaned towards the roadway. I think she actually pushed her and therefore deliberately caused her death.

When my mother was alive in her last two years I lived with her. She was a horrible person and she felt she had to be the sickest person anywhere (but she would spend her days gambling or shopping). One day I took her grocery shopping and at the store there was another old woman who was using a walker. As we went through the store she obsessively bitched about what a show that woman with the walker was putting on for others and how she (my mother) had way worse health than her. Later as we passed the old woman who was looking at hot dogs my mother (who was now about 25 feet away from me) walked up behind her and without warning lunged forward and checked her right in the back forcing her to faceplant into the hot dog sections. She said "excuse me" and then walked off with a smile. The old woman didn't appear to be hurt (was immediately helped up) and we walked off. Just another in a long line of psychopathic busts of evil that she unleashed over her life. It doesn't surprise me at all that this horrible old woman thought nothing about killing a vulnerable victim. Who knows how many deaths attributed as accidents or unknown causes each one of these evil people wrack up in their lifetime. How a person does one thing is how they do everything. I doubt she killed just once.

it's so tragic. imagine choosing to ride on the sidewalk to avoid being hit by a car, only to end up being hit by a car because you rode on the sidewalk.

Under English law, a person is guilty of involuntary manslaughter when he or she intends an unlawful act that is likely to do harm to the person, and death results which was neither foreseen nor intended. Assault covers a range of actions, from using threatening words to a severe physical attack that leaves the victim permanently disabled. 0:30

Not only did she cause a life to end with no remorse, but the woman driving the car said she suffers from ptsd and will have life long mental health problems due to having been the person to collide with Celia.

I was in Aurea’s corner until she left the scene. That is horrific to me. To leave a woman hit by a car in the street right next to you is callous beyond belief.

Auriol stated in an interview that she “touched her” … so she actually made contact with the bicyclist causing her to fall into the road. Any rational person on the sidewalk would self-preserve and move to the side if they really felt a threat. But I guess you just don’t know who’s missing a portion of their brain.

Crazy how a rule/law/ordinance can make people so inhumane or so entitled that life is lost.

My dream is to someday be featured in one of these videos narrated by this calm, pleasant gentleman. 🙏

To clarify, in the UK, it is illegal to cycle on the pavement. However, in practice, the law isn't typically enforced. In my opinion, we should show some patience and kindness, especially to more vulnerable cyclists such as the old or the very young.

Do a video about Samuel Landis, the DEA agent that intentionally ran a stop sign. He hit Marganne Allen, 53, a married mom on her bicycle, and he now wants police immunity. He said he was late and needed to catch up with the DEA surveillance team.

Thank you Dr. Grande for another informative and entertaining video. ❤❤

There are many people who need a high level of supervision.

I hate cases like this. Neither party was without fault and now a person is dead. Also spare a thought for the driver of the car. Such a tragic accident.

That's a difficult one. Personally I think that, while she does live on her own, it doesn't mean she's capable of living on her own and without care. Very often, people with disabilities live on their own just because there is no care available or nobody wants to be the carer. And then things like this happen and people say she's fully responsible because she was living on her own, so that means she can be judged like anybody else. She clearly is a lot to put up with and a danger for the community around her and should not be left on her own like this. Not for her own and certainly not for communities sake. I've seen several people that are left without care despite disabilities and that are abrasive and exhausting. One lady walking around my workplace frequently accuses all of my male colleagues of being rapists, walks into a nursery and makes a fuss because nobody is considerate about her childlessness and she is blacklisted in all shops around. 😕

I would just like to add that this is a great story that a lot of us might have a chance to benefit from knowing about. thank you for a story which may help anyone who reads it to make better choices when the opportunity presents itself in our lives.

Some cyclists get aggressive with pedestrians I have often ended up walking in the road to avoid them.

Being angry at someone for one moment in time should not end in that person's death. That person is someone's parent, sibling, child, spouse, etc. I feel so bad for the family and loved ones of Celia. RiP

Whatever happened to “love your neighbor as yourself”? All these two women needed to do was say “good morning” and be on their way.

The sidewalks are not bike lanes. In the city we have to deal with this sh*t constantly. They even ride motor vehicles on sidewalks now. Mopeds, scooters, pretty much anything with 2 wheels comes racing by pedestrians. Most cities have yet to resolve this issue. In this case the cyclist was at fault. She should have been traveling at a speed she could control and given way to the pedestrian. The fact she could not control the bike tells me she was going too fast and that she expected the pedestrian to walk out into the street reveals the entitlement of cyclists in general.

She pushed her in front of the car, you can see her foot come up as she turns and changes her center of balance. This lady needs to be in prison and not on the streets.

I don't know about the situation in the US, but here in the UK, cyclists riding on pavements (the sidewalks) are a real problem. Electric bikes/scooters have made this problem even worse due to their high speeds.

That’s a tough one. I teach my kids to ride on the sidewalk when no bike lane. But, to yield to pedestrians and just get off and walk it if there’s a confrontation.

I believe this IS manslaughter amd here's why- If Celia was not killed by this horrible tragedy, it would have resulted in Auriol being criminally charged anyway. I think a jury would have easily convicted on the lesser crime, but struggled with the much greater charge of manslaughter for the wrong reasons. It was judicially sound.

I sincerely believe she pushed her, not simply just touched her with her fingers. She absolutely pushed that lady

Glad you kept the snark out of this one. Sad case all around. The perpetrator’s mental disability factors in, in a big way, to her ability to foresee the consequences of her actions.

As a cyclist I always had to complain about car drivers. And now I am into walking. Some cyclist are rude with pedestrians, as if they were car drivers. The human being 😢

She was from a wealthy family , but lived on welfare ? There are a lot of things that contributed to the death .

That woman did not take evasive action. That woman was pushed towards traffic.

Cyclists aren't just a danger to pedestrians, they also often violate motor vehicle's right of way too. People seem to believe they're in some law free zone when they get on a bike... Funny thing is it's not the kids doing this crap either, it's adults, and usually the older the more obtuse they are to traffic laws.

I agree with your opinion 100% on this one. The only victims here were the older biker & the car driver.

Have just viewed the security camera footage on other websites- shows a little more camera angle - Auriol pivots body to push woman on bicycle into traffic. A danger to society ! ;(

and what exactly is her crime? gesturing and telling someone to get off the sidewalk with her bike? If she didn't make physical contact with the bike rider, I see no crime here. If there's a DA trying to take this to trial, they need to be fired. It's an accident where a woman lost her balance and fell into the road.

Oh my goodness I couldn’t believe you actually looked at a case which is 30 minutes from me here in uk!! Thank you dr grande

People with this type of conditions are MASSIVELY bullied all throughout their lives. They are always on the defensive. Sad story

Gotta love Dr. Grande!

Looks like she deliberately moved into the rider’s path to make contact. She was the aggressor. Very selfish to purposely put the rider in danger and never try to make room.

I am a daily cyclist in a large city. Generally I ride on the roadway, which is where I should be, or certainly on a bike path when available. There are places where the roadway is simply too dangerous to ride -- tight roadway with fast moving cars, open grids on a bridge, really poor road condition. At these times I WILL use the sidewalk, it is not normal, and at all times, I take responsibility when doing so. Roadways are constructed with the foresight for use by cars, sometimes there is simply a gap in the design that precludes bicycles.

I'm a cyclist. Never ride a bicycle on a pedestrian sidewalk, unless there is specific signage allowing it. Never ride a bicycle across a crosswalk. Either walk the bicycle or ride on the road.

There are lots of stories from the U.K. with similar outcomes. There doesn’t seem to be justice in the U.K. The woman intentionally acting aggressively and caused to death of another person and was sentenced to 3 years! A human life in the U.K. is worth 3 years. Shameful.

As a caretaker of 2 profoundly Autistic sisters, I can empathize with Auriol Grey. I have often seen my sisters "misinterpret" situations and actions by others. Their version of events is often exaggerated in comparison with my own. I have had one of them panic at "almost getting hit" in parking lots, when a vehicle passes closer than normal, even though I always maintain my place as the traffic-facing walker. I have not even noticed the car when one of them grabs my arm and exclaims, "I almost got hit!" My point being that perception is so very individual, that I would find it difficult to adjudicate such a case. As a driver, rider and traffic observer; I can also very much understand what happened to Ms. Celia, God rest her Soul. As a rider of two-wheeled vehicles, I can speak personally to not understanding what people may be thinking when they are interacting with me. Not wanting trouble seems that it would have been the cause of her reaction as she veered away, only to be met with a lightpole that seems to have gone unnoticed by the Crown and Ms. Grey. The angle does not make my analysis exact, but I have been in similar situations. Celia goes to make sure that she avoids Auriol, suddenly realizes her trajectory to the pole and instinctively continues turning right. Tragedy is the only thing that's left to happen. Years of experience for me (including 5 years in law enforcement) have given me the instinct to let things happen. Maintain your lane and perhaps you will live to tell your side of the story. But that's not in everyone's nature. I know this because I have to fight that very instinct on several occasions. I don't want to hurt anyone, anywhere at any time. However, I don't want to die alone in the woods after being cut off by someone who is pissed off with my existence. I'm sure that Celia would have made a different choice if she had known the outcome beforehand. (I guess? Maybe?). With all that said (tl:dr). I would have supported the conviction, due to the contact made, which probably did not convince Celia that she was doing the right thing. I would however, have recommended some sort of suspended sentence in lieu of mental health treatment and study. I am fully aware of how dangerous mental disability can be if not acknowledged and treated. Getting to the bottom of Auriol's issues can likely prevent something similar happening again; with her or someone else. That's my long story and I'm sticking to it. :) Very interesting case. Thanks Doc! 👍

I’m a mental health social worker and I work with many people with disabilities who are angry at the world and often attack others due to their antisocial attitudes. They should be held accountable. They most often know right from wrong, and they need others to work to earn the taxes used for their care and activities they participate in daily. Everyone has their problems, but to them, theirs are the only ones that matter. We can’t eliminate disabilities, but their lifestyles are better than ever, so these sorts of people need to be less angry at others and it shouldn’t be tolerated.

I have 2 friends that had strokes and it completely changed their personalities 1 had always been a very helpful person before that was always there for everyone in their time of need to being a very combative and only sees things from what’s best for him, it’s very frustrating to everyone around him including his wife that has been considering divorce The other one has become the complete opposite of this that is always there for everyone Head injuries are very hard for everyone involved

I can't take it anymore with these one liners!😂😂😂 I'm still stuck on a few videos back when the HAT WAS STRETCHED TO THE MAX!

Good analysis, Dr. G. Sad case.

This woman was disabled enough to live alone, argue with many people and curse at her elder. Don’t care, think she should have done more time and maybe she’d learn some manners. Poor lady that died and her family

this is one of the most heartbreaking incidences i have ever come across.

He says I'm not diagnosing then always go on to diagnose haha love it Dr big.

Genuinely curious: If you were walking on a bridge and a stranger suddenly told you to jump and you decided to to so, would that constitute manslaughter? Just because someone yells at you angrily and tell you to do something it doesn't mean you are compelled to obey, and if there is an obvious risk involved, like jumping off a bridge or veering your bike into the roadway unsafely, can the person yelling and gesticulating really be blamed for it? There is no expectation that the cyclist should obey, like there would be an expectation to obey a traffic cop. Even if you were a bitter and mean spirited individual and told a cyclist to get off the sidewalk you still wouldn't reasonably expect them to act in an unsafe manner. Now if the woman in question pushed or touched the cyclist or diverted from her expected path in order to obstruct the cyclist to force them off the road then that I think would be manslaughter

Extraordinary how many people seem completely unable to distinguish between "I don't like this person" and "this person violated the law".

There was ample room for her to move to her right. She caused the death of that woman and should have been charged.

She is obviously guilty. Waving someone off into traffic causing death is murder.

Looks similar to pushing her into a train, in this case into traffic that Auriol saw coming and the victim did not.

Son of a senior British judge here. In my father's view, some cases are simply evenly balanced. This is probably why the first jury was hung. That's life I'm afraid - the law isn't always cut and dried.

As a physician, I was struck by the extent of this woman's disability. She had poor vision along with impaired emotional and physical functioning due to her brain surgery. Her behavior can be explained by her disability and should have been taken into account by the court. I am surprised Dr Grande did not mention this in his analysis.

Pedestrians and cyclists on sidewalks are not generally compatible. Cyclists are much safer sharing the street with motor vehicles. However, they must ride single file and impede the flow of traffic as little as possible. The sidewalks are no place for cyclists unless they are children.

As a daily cycle commuter I at first I was inclined to blame the pedestrian for hogging the sidewalk, but also I blamed the cyclist for playing chicken with the pedestrian. I didn’t see the pedestrian strike or shove the cyclist. She didn’t even seem to lean in or turn towards the cyclist. I follow the rule that pedestrians have the right of way. I could see blaming the car driver for not giving the cyclists room to use the street for their commute, or to pass pedestrians or other obstacles on the sidewalks. I do ultimately blame the cyclists for taking unnecessary risk of trying to pass the pedestrian with such a narrow margin between the pedestrian traffic and the car traffic. To me the fall seemed accidental. No guilty for either the pedestrian or the driver of the car.

She pushed an old lady into traffic then went shopping That's cold-blooded

I don’t know the law of England about who can be on the pavement such as cyclists. . I know in Germany if you’re 12 years and older than you have to ride on the road. In my opinion, the 77-year-old woman should’ve got off her bicycle as she came toward the walker in the other direction just to be safer for both people, but I also think that the walker should not have shouted at her and she should’ve stood to the side if the older lady was not going to walk the bicycle. And if it’s true that the walker touched the older lady, then she should’ve not done that, it’s a very sad thing never matter whose fault it was.

I’m British and as far as I’m aware - and we were taught this in school during cycling classes - that you’re not supposed to ride on a pavement and if a pedestrian is using the pavement, they have priority over the cyclist.

The cyclist was not entitled to be on the pavement/sidewalk. It's illegal. If I had driven a motorcycle down the pavement/sidewalk, and suffered an accident, I don't think there would be any discussion about who was at fault

Cross country biking has been my sport and as far as rules in America go, to my knowledge bikes are vehicles and we belong in the street with traffic and obeying the laws. If traffic was very dangerous for me, I was WALKING my bike on the sidewalk with deference given to pedestrians.🌿

I'm a lifelong cyclist, usually sticking to the sidewalks, I think it's the cyclist's responsibility to avoid hazards and think ahead. I've also had people strike me and pretend to strike me (which is assault) and avoiding them is part of the responsibility,

Self defense is not manslaughter, even if you might be handicapped.

I ride a bike everyday. You're supposed to ride the bike in the same direction as traffic so this doesn't happen. The cyclist could've turned toward the fence instead of the road. It was an accident but I don't think she deserves to be in prison.

Another piece exculpatory evidence is the fact that Aurielle is mentally impaired. That factor informs all of her behaviours. She was being accosted by individuals on scooters, teased because she is mentally impaired. I would say that her mental accuity is that of a 7/8 year old child. Her motivation was immediate, no mens rea. Plus the failed police investigation, which could not determine and gave no evidence to support the legality of the victim riding her bicycle on the pavement. The case could not be tried because the investigation was improper, and the court relied on conjecture, not fact, when determining the outcome of the case.

_Incident in a small town in England. And what should have been a completely benign encounter between two individuals, instead spiraled into a senseless tragedy. For such is the fleeting nature of existence, as every one of us lives our daily lives with one foot on the pavement, and the other teetering on the curb of...The Twilight Zone._

Cyclist needs to stop when they see a pedestrian on a sidewalk. She saw her quite far to be able to stop without falling

That is wild! That is not fair! At least she only had to serve a couple years. You can gesticulate as madly as you like. No reasonable person would agree that yelling and shooing someone off the sidewalk equates to manslaughter. This was not assault!

😮This reminds me of something that happened to me. While walking on the sidewalk in NYC, I decided to reach into my purse to get my sunglasses. I took maybe 2 steps to the right and stopped walking. I have a habit of making a Hollywood move and moving my left foot a few inches away from my body to sort of balance myself. As I was reaching in my purse, a man walking to my left, walking behind me, tripped over my foot and fell hard on the sidewalk. He had to 6'5" and 275 pounds. I felt so bad. I assume he was fine because he did get up, but not before he gave me a disgusted look. This reminded me of what happened here.

Watched the BBC report when this news first aired -- a cyclist goes right past the reporter, on the pavement...

Riding a bicycle on the pavement (side walk) is illegal in the UK under the Highway Act 1835

I didn't see the pedestrian move to block the sidewalk. Point of fact, if the pedestrian was blocking the sidewalk, then the cyclist couldn't have expected to maneuver around her at speed. It looks to me like the cyclist just doesn't handle the maneuver. Short of being shoved, I just don't see this being more than an accident. If there is a proof that the cyclist would have otherwise not lost control without physical intervention of the pedestrian. Also, it's not a pedestrian's job to make sure a cyclist isn't traveling too fast to control their conveyance. If the cyclist is going so fast that she couldn't stop and HAD to swerve, then there can't be just miscalculation on the part of the pedestrian. Also, I can swear at someone and flip them off, but just because they then crash doesn't mean I caused it. It's still up to the other person to control their conveyance. This is the second analysis I've watched of yours, and there's a lot of supposition what the supposed guilty party is supposed to know that isn't reflected in law. In this case, you claim the pedestrian is supposed to be aware of traffic's possible threat to a cyclist. Bollocks. That could only possibly be a factor if the pedestrian forcefully pushes someone into the path of a vehicle. This little forearm waving being called an "aggressive" action is just so weak. Next thing you know, the pedestrian will be blamed for a vehicle losing control because of arm movements. What a joke.

The bullies from before made a mind set of grievance. Imo this is a part of the tragedy.

She is disabled and snarky. But i don't think she intended for the woman to die. Sounds like an unfortunate accident. If she delibratley shoved her. Then she would absolutely be at fault. Not knowing her obviously i have no idea how she interprets right from wrong. Walking away was callous. I absolutely feel for the victim and her family. And the poor lady that hit her. That has to be weighing on her.

If cyclists saw that pedestrian was not moving or gave room, they needed to slow down or stop.

"plenty of room" does that mean i can drive on the sidewalk if there is enough room ? Cyclists arent allowed on the sidewall unless youre a child. Cyclists cant have it both ways.

You can see her plant her left foot and swivel just as the bicycle meets her. She was also purposely striding in the middle of the sidewalk.

If one moves the video frame by frame one can see that the cyclist was in control and straight when she passed Auriol. The front wheel is straight after it has passed her. Then Auriol stops walking for a moment, her right leg makes a vigoros movement inward and her body moves inward for a moment (visible back not straight as before, but leaning forward for a moment), as if she gives the cyclist a quick push. Only at that moment does the cyclist turn the handlebar to the right to instinctively compensate for the lean to the right which was caused by the push. When the front wheel of thy bicycle enters the road the lean to the right of the cyclist is much steeper than a loss of directional control without a push could possibly have caused in this fraction of second. If she had steered to the right so quickly while going straight then she would have fallen to the left. She falls to the right despite the counteraction of her steering right because the momentum caused to her body by the push was greater than what the countersteering could compensate for. Never mind about the gestures, that happens many times every day, but she was obviously pushed, Why did the prosecution and the court fail to see this quick break of step and leaning over of the body?

I’m not saying Ariel is innocent, but, I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect Ariel to believe that her hand gesture would cause a death. I also think if a minor situation like this causes you to lose control of your bicycle and crash in front of moving cars, maybe you’re too old to be riding a bike.

It's against the law to ride your bike on the pavement. If breaking the law results in someone's death you're at fault, even if it's your own death. Legally this isn't even a brain teaser. She's not guilty of manslaughter.

The International Mountain Bike Association has the sensible and ethical guidance of all bicyclists need to always yield right of way so that there is no chance that other trail users ever feel afraid. As a 59 y/o man, I always either get off the sidewalk or dismount from my bike when I see a pedestrian.

I don't know about this area, but in the UK there are many designated cycling and pedestrian areas - which is asking for accidents to happen. Not much chance of a pedestrian knocking another pedestrian over, but when a bike comes flying past you at speed from behind, it can give you the fright of your life!!! I have seen people getting knocked over by cyclists on these designated areas. It is ridiculous, but the local council designates the areas and really don't give a hoot about accidents (probably less accidents than having cycling on the road)!!!

I read about this accident but you had much more info on the pedestrian. It is a difficult situation all around. You did your absolute best to try to be fair. Your admonition at the end allowed this to be a cautionary tale for the hotheads.

I was a victim of a cyclist when I was walking on the sidewalk about over 2 years ago it cost me $6,000 in medical bills they never stopped I hurt my knee really bad until this day it hurts really bad so I have no sympathy for cyclists,, Riding on the sidewalk, if you're over the age of 10 you should know better,,