Is there an expiation of fasting for one who hits a man with his car?

The questioner : May Allah reward you with good. The questioner says: I hit a man with my car. He was riding his bicycle and cut across the highway. He died two hours after the accident, after I took him to the hospital. I paid his family a sum of money. Is there a specific expiation for me, considering that the one I hit...

The Shaykh : Yes, he died in the operating room, and perhaps he died because of the surgery. Yes, first, we ask: Did this man who died transgress the line, and was the car that ran over him close to him, such that he was the one who was negligent with his life, and the driver of the car that hit him owes nothing? Or was the car far away, but the driver’s speed allowed him to catch up and hit him, causing his death? In that case, it is guaranteed upon the car owner. Therefore, details must be distinguished, and those who distinguish in this matter are the traffic officers. If they say the fault lies with the bicycle owner—and he says bicycle and car—if the fault is his, then the car owner owes nothing. If the fault is with the car owner, then the expiation is upon him, and the full blood money is due to the heirs of the one who died. The expiation for killing is freeing a slave. If he does not find one, then fasting two consecutive months. If he cannot do that, then there is no feeding in it. If he cannot do that, then nothing is upon him, and Allah the Exalted is his accountant.