Posted on 06/06/2008 8:12:24 AM PDT by george76
A car plowed into a bike race along a highway near the US-Mexico border, killing one and injuring 10 others.
Police investigator Jose Alfredo Rodriguez says the 28-year-old driver was apparently drunk ...
A photograph taken by a city official shows bicyclists and equipment being hurled high in to the air...
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Oh wow, that’s the first time I’ve seen that picture with a police car in it. I thought the cropped version was the entire pic.
So this guy was so out of it, he managed to not only miss seeing the bikers, but a police car as well! Ugh. I hope the authorities down there throw the book at him.
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Way back in 1957 my dad was driving to work at night. He saw a car coming toward him weaving all over the road. He pulled completely off the road and stopped, and the drunk still hit him, totalling our car and putting my dad in the hospital.
The drunk had no insurance.
You know, I joke about plowing over people in Grand Theft Auto. Now for me, I would never do that out of fear of going to jail for a long time as well as the inability to loose the cops within the first couple of minutes of actually doing this.
Evidently that was not the issue for this guy...
“Amazing how this drunk POS was magnetically attracted to these bicyclists. He fell asleep at the wheel (so the story goes) just as he neared these day glow bicycle boys”
The photo clearly shows a police car parked in the lane the driver would have been driving in. Looks to me the driver swerved to avoid the police car at the last second and plowed in the cyclists.
“Way back in 1957 my dad was driving to work at night. He saw a car coming toward him weaving all over the road. He pulled completely off the road and stopped, and the drunk still hit him, totalling our car and putting my dad in the hospital.”
Same scenario for my Grandfather and Grandmother early one morning in 1946 except the drunk killed my grandmother.
cyclists may be dead right.
Safety also is to watch out for drunks driving thousands of pounds of energy at hundreds of pounds.
The large picture explains alot.
The cop dodged the drunk.
Too bad that the bikers did not scatter.
I guess it’s hard to tell using just a photo, but I thought the police car was leading the cyclists and swerved to avoid the drunk, exposing the cyclists to a head on.
I can’t tell what this drunken POS was doing. I doubt he knows either. At least it took place in Mexico. So it is their mess
God, that’s horrible. That drunken a$$hole should be thrown in prison for life.
They will send him over the border to the USA. It will cost Mexico money to put him in jail.
Yep. The same thing happened to my Grandmother in ‘63.
Dang,almost had a scene like that on Old Mine Road a year or three back.
That’s one of the jobs of the lead car, to impact any obstructions, so the bikes don’t. Also to “persuade” the crowds to move back.
Still, it’s hard to fault a driver for swerving out of the way of a sure accident.
I’m told that it’s a good idea to turn your lights off, because drunks fixate on the lights and then tend to drive at them.
Pathetic is a little strong. It was more tasteless & insensitive.
Unfortunately, I have those “daytime running lights”, so even if I shut my lights off at night, there’s still light to be seen.
I live down the road from a bar, and have had a few close calls.
Nearly got one of the patrons as he stumbled down the road.
That too.
BUMP!
“I can’t tell what this drunken POS was doing. I doubt he knows either. At least it took place in Mexico. So it is their mess”
Actually, this took place in Brownsville, Texas. The article is written to hide that fact. There are other articles reporting where this really happened. Look at the street sign. That’s an American street sign, not a Mexican one.
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