theres a handful of cases of cyclist vs pedestrian RTC each year, they are concentrated mostly around London and the SE where
everyone seems to be more aggressive on the roads..
the cyclists not only stopped but appears to have turned himself in which counts in his favour. I expect a lot of you also haven't been on the "wrong side" of the law. As a raver/hedonist once (no longer) involved in organising events and pirate radio stations (you do have to grow up one day!) I have been - not for anything really violent or really dysfunctional, only minor mischief..
Cops pick the highest charge they can when they first nick you - a bag of party drugs is always class A (even when it could be B or C), if found in a disused warehouse building late at night they assume you are some itinerant wanting to rob it for copper/lead (which ravers don't do as we need the leccy cable intact to power the sound system!
)
I've even been once nicked for suspicion of stealing my
own mobile phone (in the early 90s when fewer young people had them, they wanted to find out whether I was a drug dealer (which I wasn't, had the phone legit for work!)
So often what starts of a harsher charge ends up as a lesser charge leading to a caution or is dropped altogether.. as I've always held down a good job and not done any violent crime the cops used to just tell me what a naughty boy I was and send me on my way and give me the lesser of any penalty.. for minor stuff most of the time all cops and the justice systems wants is an admission of guilt and remorse for any problems you cause to others..
Now this RTC is of course a
much more serious incident but as eTim said its innocent until proven guilty and up to metpol traffic to get evidence and Courts to decide the penalty. it might end up as a lesser traffic offence than manslaughter.
If it did end up as manslaughter I expect the penalty could be as little as 18 months/2 years in the can, same as for motorists - bear in mind a manslaughter case I am aware of involving a fight and violence in metpol area resulted in the surviving fighter only getting 5 years. Life is cheaper than you think.
That said, losing liberty/prison isn't as much of a pushover as people make it out to be whether its for 6 hours or 20 years, and for otherwise decent person to have something like this hanging over their head (even with drivers!) its a massive burden.