'Drunk' driver makes it to his front door before realizing a cyclist is lodged in his windshield

The Daily Mail Online ^ | January 21, 2014 | James Nye

[Uncle Chip]

'Hello, I'm the guy you hit on the bicycle'

A Wisconsin man who became lodged in the windshield of a car that struck him said he turned to the driver and said, 'Hello, I'm the guy you hit on the bicycle.'

The man finally noticed Gove when he stopped the car outside his home.

'He looked at me and said 'Who are you? What are you doing in the car?' Gove said. 'He started freaking out: 'I'm going to jail, I'm going to jail.''

The man then locked the car doors and went into his home. Gove, whose body had gone most of the way through the windshield, then pulled his knees and feet into the car.

'I righted myself and got out,' he said. 'I unlocked the passenger's side door and started walking down the street.'

A witness had called police, who found Gove as he was walking and took him to a hospital. Doctors removed glass from Gove's eyes and treated him for other cuts to the head and leg.

The driver, a 20-year-old Manitowoc man, was found at the home and treated at a hospital for a serious cut to the hand.

He hadn't been formally charged as of Tuesday morning, but he was facing several preliminary charges, including suspicion of drunken driving, suspicion of hit-and-run causing injury and suspicion of failing to render aid.

'I was wearing my blue overcoat with my neon reflective vest,' said Gove. 'I had my front and rear flashers on. I have no idea why he didn't see me.'

[shibumi]

To takr a deer oin a bike you need one of these -

It's called a "Yoopercycle."

[Ditter]

I remembered that it was a black woman who hit a man, maybe in Dallas? The guy stayed in the windshield over night maybe? I couldn't remember if he died or not.

How could you hit anything that hard and not realize it and go home without surveying the damage. I don't drink but it would be difficult for me to imagine driving a car if I was that impaired, from alcohol, prescription drugs or anything.

[Arrowhead1952]

Black lady in N Texas struck a pedestrian. It did not kill him and he was stuck in the windshield. She parked the car in her garage and even checked on him several times the next few days.

[Ditter]

Thanks ya’ll my memory is not quite a faulty as I thought it was. :)

[k4gypsyrose]

I remember the story. The guy was still alive when they left the garage. He would have lived if they had gotten help for him. Tragic.

[HotHunt]

I have been hit three times by cars...while running along the shoulder of paved roads.

Forty some years ago, I was a long-distance runner and would sometimes have to train on the shoulder of a road. Once, the passenger-side mirror of a car hit my upper arm and knocked me off my feet into a ditch. Escaped with a bruised arm and some scrapes from falling into the ditch. The other two times I was barely bumped and grazed, resulting in torn t-shirts from getting caught on the trim of the cars. But each time, the drivers never stopped or even realized that they had hit me.

I was young and invincible back then. In hindsight, I realize how lucky I was that I wasn’t killed in these incidents. But I live to tell the tales....

[PghBaldy]

I put the links in my post above. He died. She knew he was there.

[Catmom]

Did the driver get a piece of brain lodged in his head?

[Ditter]

Yes, that's it thanks. She probably knew when she hit him. I hope she never gets out of prison, 2027 is too soon for her to be out on the street again.

[Hatteras]

'I was wearing my blue overcoat with my neon reflective vest,' said Gove. 'I had my front and rear flashers on. I have no idea why he didn't see me.'

Bicycle Idiots... On a bicycle on a Saturday night with just enough flashing light and color to blend in with everything around you. Even 3/4's of the sober people out at night aren't going to see you until they're on top of you. You'd probably be seen better if you were just a dark mass passing in front of the lights around you.

Well, I was legal and totally have every RIGHT to be out on the street on my bicycle on a Saturday night!

Yeah... but that doesn't mean you're not an idiot.

[lwd]

The driver was on Ecstasy and she left the injured guy in her garage for hours, in I recall correctly.

[GOYAKLA]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chante_Jawan_Mallard

http://articles.latimes.com/2002/mar/08/news/mn-31784

+++++
Another case with male driver:
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=8218296

[PapaBear3625]

If I were on the jury, I'd vote that he cut you a cheque for a new house.

If I were a prosecutor, I'd be filing charges for attempted murder.

The driver hit the cyclist, LEFT the cyclist in his windshield, and went into his house. If the cyclist hadn't been able to extract himself and get help by himself, he would have died.

At least charge him with hit-and-run.

[Boogieman]

Yes, you remember correctly, except the man was not dead. She left him stuck in the windshield for days, dying in her garage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chante_Jawan_Mallard

[Ditter]

Well I guess the old bat (me) still has a few functioning brain cells! :)

[goat granny]

Law and Order did a story on this, only they made the driver white. Having known the real story,I couldn’t help but laugh at what L & O saying their stories are drawn from real situations..

[Arrowhead1952]

Thanks ya’ll my memory is not quite a faulty as I thought it was. :)

I hear you. Kind of like you come back several hours later (like this is) and realize the reply you typed is still on the screen in another window and has not posted. DUH.

This was not my original reply. Matter of fact, I think I just wanted to say thanks. Who knows my intent other than the Lord above.