Posted on 05/01/2026 5:59:21 AM PDT by V_TWIN
An elderly motorist is accused of driving through a group of bicyclists in Georgia — knocking one over and fracturing his spine — before speeding off in a hit-and-run that was caught on camera.
Jerry Wayne Ross, 72, flashed a smile in his booking photo as he faces charges for the alleged hit-and-run with his Honda Pilot, all caught on video, on April 23 in Cherokee County, Ga., according to Fox 5 Atlanta.
The North Georgia Cycling Association was on its weekly Thursday night ride when the older driver was accused of driving up on the group in a suspected road-rage incident.
The cyclists were in the middle of their 32-mile ride through Cherokee County when Ross appeared behind them, blasting his horn for nearly two miles along Sugar Pike Road in Canton.
“Just excessive. Didn’t let off the horn,” Richard Collins, the leader of the group, told Fox 5 Atlanta.
Ross was found hiding out at a neighbor’s house down the road after officials from the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office spotted damage to his SUV consistent with hitting a bicycle.
The suspected driver told authorities he had encountered the group of cyclists but denied responsibility, blaming the bikers for the collision, saying the riders had been in the middle of the road, Fox 5 Atlanta reported.
Ross was arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated assault, aggressive driving, hit-and-run and failing to maintain distance, according to jail records viewed by The Post.
He remains behind bars in the Cherokee County Jail with his charges totaling $24,540.
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In this case I think it would have been prudent for the cyclists to deescalate by moving over and reporting the incident complete with video to the police and lettingthemhandle it.
You are right. At the end of the day, its a matter of common sense, setting reasonable expectations and courtesy. The cyclists have a right to use the road whether the old man likes it or not. But the cyclists should pull over every once in a while, to let motor traffic pass, especially if they see that there is a large line of cars behind them or if a car has been behind them for a while. And the motorist needs to reset his expectations. Its ironic that an elderly person did this. Many times a younger person gets frustrated with an elderly person driving slowly and wants them to pull over or drive more quickly.
I am a cyclist as well.
Correction: Former cyclist, due to the extreme nature of the activists here fomenting natural anger among the vehicular public, some of them hypocrites who supported the gross expansion of cycling activism (which is overwhelmingly ANTI CAR). I chose to not endanger myself and gave it up.
There is a biting amount of sarcastic underscore in my prior comment, but I left off my sarc tag with purpose:
What this guy did is nearly every vehicle driver’s closet fantasy.
Anyone leaving out discussion of the responsibility of these cyclists are hypocrites themselves.
What we don't know is how long he'd been behind them in traffic.
Maybe doesn't excuse, but might explain.
Bullsh*t! Been cycling my whole life. Move your buttsniffing ass over.
Sorry - meant far right lane. California. The roads are even marked with signage that says “bicycles have a right to the entire right lane.”
Motorists hate it b/c in some cases, the far right lane is designated now ONLY for bikes and buses - closing the lanes for cars and making our terrible traffic worse.
There has been a lot of anger over this issue.
“who have no business on the road”
They are as entitled to use the roadways as you are.
After watching the jerks with their expensive bikes and uniforms riding the coast road (North San Diego coast)and doing all the annoying things they do, it would be refreshing to get back to Ocean Beach (San Diego hippie beach area at the time) and see the older guys on their old beater bikes and wearing jeans and t-shirts weaving in and out on the sidewalks and the side of the street and stopping at the lights and stop signs trying to stay out of the way of the cars, just the way they and all of us did as kids.
As kids we rode everywhere and tried to avoid the cars and interfering with them.
Modern adult bike riders can’t do like we did as kids because they are seriously exercising or commuting, and we accommodate them to a point, the problem is that they need what should be a TINY amount of modern laws and accommodation and more effort to ride like kids used to when the cars were the dominate contraption to be on the roads, in other words they need to dial it back some and the compromises between car and bicycles has gone too far toward the bicycles in laws and road/bike path construction .
Pass in the other lane.
Oddly, living in Florida this reminds me of the battle between the pier fisherman and the surfers.
As a kid my parents and I fished the city pier on many occasions and I saw my share of altercations between the two groups.
Apparently the waves are better around the pier but city ordinance states surfers are to remain 1000 feet away.
That was a joke of course to the surfers so the fishermen would deliberately throw their weighted rigs right at the surfers.
Got so bad one time a few surfers came up on the pier and a literal brawl ensued.
Cops were called and a lot of people went to jail.
It was a scene man. SMH.
Like you said, common sense......in this situation and that day on the pier it was in short supply.
Paved roads are for public use.
Get over yourself.
I didn’t call you out specifically. But prove to me there are more cycling friendly posts than not on this forum.
Yes! Driver couldn't count on clear sailing if he pulled way over into the oncoming lane where someone could be driving unawares and FAST.
It is weird that you think owning and having ridden bikes is so rare in America that the posters on this thread haven’t ever been on a bicycle.
My guess is that probably everyone on this thread has owned multiple bikes and has many years experience on them and in driving cars both.
Yes, that is a big part of why I don't ride the roads around here. Far too many people drive and text/look at their phones while driving, and I don't feel like dying because someone can't be bothered to pay attention to DRIVING their vehicle.
I don't want to be friends with you. I hate packs of cyclists. I hate packs of motorcyclists/bikers. It's why I avoid them if I can. Most people on this forum can't avoid them because the buttsniffer packs are meandering all over the road preventing anybody from passing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Wb8exPj3o
F--king twatwaffles in action.
There’s a lot of irony in this piece
https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/30/e-bike-regulation-license-plates-laws-dmv/
This could have and should have been avoided.
By the van driver AND the cyclists. At least two leaned into the van.
That video really shows what we are dealing with from these aggressive, lefty activists.
I’ve been here a long time. I can guarantee and would bet money that any story posted on this subject will generate mostly “I hate road bikers!!” replies.
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