Virginia Beach Motorcyclist Killed By Drunk Driver

Andrew Markowitz, 37, was killed by a drunk driver in Virginia Beach on Sunday night, May 16.  He was headed southbound on London Bridge Road around 7:00 pm when  a Lincoln Town car driven by 62-year-old John A. Smith pulled out in front of him.  The rider struck the car on the left rear side, and was thrown from the bike and killed.  The press accounts of this man's tragic death typically portray the motorcyclist as a second-class citizen by quoting poice as sayng the rider was travelling at a "high rate of speed" just before the crash.  Oh really?  And where is the evidence of that?  No mention of it in the press accounts.  Was he clocked on radar?  No mention of that either.  But what we do know for certain is that the driver of the car was arrested for DUI, after clearly failing to yield to Mr. Markowitz, who surely had the legal right of way.  And yet to read the press accounts, you would think it was the rider's fault.  It doesn't look that way to me.  Shame on the press and the VIrginia Beach police for once again portraying the motorcyclist as a second class citizen without any real evidence to support fault on his part.  Why hasn't this driver been charged with negligent homicide?