Post by georgiacammer on Jun 23, 2014 22:26:14 GMT -5
Today I was sitting at the kitchen table and found a story in some old spinal injury magazine involving a bad driver running over a cyclist. This story truly disgusted me. This is the same story from an online article I found:
"Jan is an experienced road cyclist and triathlete. Like Harrington, she was wearing a helmet. Her husband also emphasized some other things about the conditions at the time of the crash: There was good visibility, and the road is flat and wide. Jan and Kim were wearing bright clothing, as they always do on road rides.
That didn’t save Jan from getting hit from behind, hard enough to be thrown onto the hood of the car. When the car stopped, David told me, Jan rolled off the hood. He told me that according to Kim, the woman driving got out of the car and was on her cell phone. She yelled something along the lines of, “What are y’all doing in the middle of the road?” When Kim ran back down the road to get help, the driver got into the car again and started driving … rolling over Jan’s head.
Here’s how eyewitness Moneaka Jones described the scene:
“When she hit Jan, she didn’t dodge her, never slowed down,” Jones told the Daily Journal. “She got out of the car, she was on the phone, saying ‘I just hit a lady. You better get down here.’”
Jones said [Robbie] Norton peeked at Morgan, who was bleeding and unconscious, before getting back inside her car and slowly running her over.
“The front tire sat on Jan’s head 45 seconds to a minute,” Jones said. “You can hear it on the 911 tape, me telling her she was on top of Jan’s head. Then she got off her head. She was in a state of shock. She attempted to get back in the car a third time actually but we wouldn’t let her.”
grist.org/biking/2011-08-03-mississippi-cyclist-hit-twice-by-driver-where-is-accountaibility/
Eventually the cyclist made a full recovery. The driver was sentenced to 6 months in prison, but instead the cyclist wanted her to make a PSA about sharing the road with cyclists.
"Jan is an experienced road cyclist and triathlete. Like Harrington, she was wearing a helmet. Her husband also emphasized some other things about the conditions at the time of the crash: There was good visibility, and the road is flat and wide. Jan and Kim were wearing bright clothing, as they always do on road rides.
That didn’t save Jan from getting hit from behind, hard enough to be thrown onto the hood of the car. When the car stopped, David told me, Jan rolled off the hood. He told me that according to Kim, the woman driving got out of the car and was on her cell phone. She yelled something along the lines of, “What are y’all doing in the middle of the road?” When Kim ran back down the road to get help, the driver got into the car again and started driving … rolling over Jan’s head.
Here’s how eyewitness Moneaka Jones described the scene:
“When she hit Jan, she didn’t dodge her, never slowed down,” Jones told the Daily Journal. “She got out of the car, she was on the phone, saying ‘I just hit a lady. You better get down here.’”
Jones said [Robbie] Norton peeked at Morgan, who was bleeding and unconscious, before getting back inside her car and slowly running her over.
“The front tire sat on Jan’s head 45 seconds to a minute,” Jones said. “You can hear it on the 911 tape, me telling her she was on top of Jan’s head. Then she got off her head. She was in a state of shock. She attempted to get back in the car a third time actually but we wouldn’t let her.”
grist.org/biking/2011-08-03-mississippi-cyclist-hit-twice-by-driver-where-is-accountaibility/
Eventually the cyclist made a full recovery. The driver was sentenced to 6 months in prison, but instead the cyclist wanted her to make a PSA about sharing the road with cyclists.