I know that I'm going to catch a big crapper load of chit for my comments, but after reviewing the video and thinking about this for a week, I have to comment.
I know what it's like to ride on rural areas, being a guy born and raised in the mid to northern part of Michigan. Even relocating to the greater St. Louis metro area, albeit west of the Missouri River, there are parts that still remind me of being very rural when riding.
I have had more than a dozen car deer hits while driving cars, pickups or motor home while living in Michigan. Here in my area deer are so rampant that some St. Louis ritzy titzy suburb communities are hiring outside deer control companies to cull the heard of deer within the city limits. Some are using bows and others are actually driving with rifles equipped with silencers. Now that's very scary.
I digress...
When I ride it's usually two up and my wife and I mainly ride secondary roads. When it gets close to dusk we slow down and go even more on the defensive looking out for wildlife. When it's dark I take it another step up and am paying attention to everything, including my mirrors. I said Mirrors with a capital M.
I watch this video of the couple out enjoying a night ride or whatever they were doing and how they didn't notice the cop coming up on their ass. At least it's a divided 4 lane, maybe an expressway. I drive my car on freeways to and from work and almost as important as my view out the windshield is my rear view mirrors. I always think about a "way out" if I have to stop and see someone not paying attention coming up way to fast on my ass. I've had to take a detour to the center space next to the concrete barrier too many times to keep the car behind from hitting me.
That being said, was the couple that got hit oblivious to a pair of headlights coming up from behind on a straight road? With a great shoulder to the right or the left lane to dip into, they may have had "some" options if they were attentive to their conditions and from behind.
There is no way in the world that the cop is getting out of this one as the "at fault" person, nor should he. But all I'm saying is that defensive driving/riding is an important part of our everyday riding.
I also noticed that the camera timeline went from 45 min / 06 sec when he pulled off the road to the time you see him stopped on the road with over 46 min on the timer. That's over a minute deleted from the video. I wonder what was going on during that time that we can't see?
All I'm saying is that it WAS NOT HIS FAULT, but he may have been able to help himself out if he had noticed the car closing fast.
So let the commentaries fly.