That may have been your question - I was addressing the issue of whether the cyclist should automatically be assumed to have been careless.Now as to stopping, stopped and done what? If the deer was dead, what were they supposed to do? A dead human, there are reponsibilities to inform, a dead dog, you might be able to locate the owners and tell them, a dead deer is a wild animal, with no intimate owner. Who knows how much respect or remorse the rider felt, but what were they supposed to do if they stopped? Hold a wake for the dead fawn in the middle of the road? In a genuine wild environment (lets take the Serengeti as an example), there are bits of dead animal all over the place. The difference between there and Richmond Park is that there aren't sufficirnt scavenger animals to remove the debris quickly.The only reason I can think of for stopping is to arrange for the corpse to be removed since some other passers by might be too squeamish to accept the concept that death happens. This something we maybe all should learn.
Michael Winstanley ● 1696d