Cops TV Show episode: Cyclist Hit
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Hasn't there been a few old thread recently reopened by newbie posters claiming to know and defending the person involved in these types of incidents.
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Yes, Someone new posted just the other day that their mother was the woman hit a cyclist in a video on COPS and that it was settled for $5k.
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But seriously, wasn't there just two threads like this in the last month or so where it seemed a pretty obvious troll involved.
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Appalling
Or perhaps, while the driver was asleep at the wheel she clipped the cyclist, then proceeded to ram a tree. Somehow the idea that there was a cyclist hit by a mystery vehicle just before a second vehicle drifted off the road and hit a tree within 20 feet of the first hit and run seems more than a little incredulous. the son may believe his mom, but I find the story unbelievable. I like my theory better.
What was "amazing" about the driver's response was the seeming sincerity of it. Cops are supposed to be able to tell when someone is lying and she fooled everyone at first.
The cops didn't give a crap about the kid - interrogating HIM more than the woman first of all. And, didn't even bother to get a status on his condition before he was transported to the hospital.
All of this legal talk about what really happened completely ignores the fact that there was a witness- the person driving right behind her. The guy who saw the kid fly ten feet in the air! A VERY credible witness. Also, the circular dent in the woman's windshield is NOT from hitting a tree. It's from someone's head or body hitting the glass. And it was from the outside on the passenger side.
That kid deserved way more than $5,000. He very well could have died, she was definitely trying to leave him for dead, and he looked so scared when he stumbled out of the woods. She was also changing her story, and even in the beginning she seemed quite shaky and not just in a language kind of way either. This episode REALLY pissed me off! So, at least I was able to find an active forum on it - thanks for listening to my rant. :-)
BTW, I have a friend who got a $300k settlement from a horrific DUI accident that required her to go through several surgeries. Guess what their first offer was, two years prior? $5,000.
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$5,000 might have been outrageously low if he was injured, or a minor windfall if he was OK and the bike was cheap. I didn't see the episode so I have no idea about how the responders handled the event.
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