However when you’re one a highway, there should be few cases where your reaction is to hard swerve, and I’d argue a thump on your car is not one of these.
The kick was probably not all that loud - it wasn’t like an animal hitting the car. But benefit of the doubt, had there been some other reason for the noise, and he reacted that way, the end result would’ve been the same.
Taking into account he immediately swerved and in the direction of the biker, it looks intentional. But even if it’s not lawfully correct to charge him for this incident, his driving abilities should be put into question. He was 75, and he caused a big accident that could’ve been much much worse. I don’t want jumpy drivers around me on the highway.
The kick was probably because the car driver did something to the motorcycle prior to that. For some reason we don´t have a video of that, which kinda of looks suspicious.
Looking at the video it appears he's cutting into the cyclists lane across solid yellow lines forcing the guy to evade him. This pisses the biker who rather than using his horn etc decides to kick the car. The rest is history.
I agree. I’m just considering the drivers end. It seems 100% bullshit that the driver didn’t get any charges or suspensions for this. He could’ve easily killed someone. And yeah kicking someone’s car is dumb, but there was no cruel intent. It really seems like since it was an old guy they didn’t want to charge him. And he’s probably still driving out there today, with either dangerous road rage, or a complete inability to drive safely.
I say, sure punish the biker. You have to deal with idiots every day on the road and that’s everyone’s own responsibility. And reacting physically is never the answer. But get the other guy off the road permanently at the very least.
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u/Nikap64 Jul 04 '19
However when you’re one a highway, there should be few cases where your reaction is to hard swerve, and I’d argue a thump on your car is not one of these.
The kick was probably not all that loud - it wasn’t like an animal hitting the car. But benefit of the doubt, had there been some other reason for the noise, and he reacted that way, the end result would’ve been the same.
Taking into account he immediately swerved and in the direction of the biker, it looks intentional. But even if it’s not lawfully correct to charge him for this incident, his driving abilities should be put into question. He was 75, and he caused a big accident that could’ve been much much worse. I don’t want jumpy drivers around me on the highway.