Another dead cyclist...
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- Amicus0
While riding up a hill as a teenager I got hit by a drunk driver in a 4WD coming out of a gravel driveway. I was relatively unhurt, luckily, except for gravel rash up both legs and arms. My bike was trashed, but in shock I walked it the block home. When I got home I realised no one else was there so I ran a bath full of dettol and jumped in. FUCK ME, I still remember that pain as if it were now. I raced out the back nude and hosed off quick before getting dressed.
An hour or so later the guy was knocking on doors looking for me to pay for the bike. Dad was home by then and took him down the cop shop. The idiot had gone home, and drunk some more before he drove back. The cops, realising he was plastered, let him get back in his car and drive out of the parking lot before pulling him over and arresting him.
His reading was .158 and his licence was suspended for a year. I can't remember how much he got fined, but I know I didn't get a new bike :(
- That sucks! Good call on the cops' part letting the schmuck drive away into handcuffs.dMullins