road rage on a cyclist (Page 2)

We have an attorney in our group that will contact the police department and get the name / address if we get the license plate from the driver.  He sends a very formal letter indicating charges could be filed up to and including "attempted vehicular manslaughter" if someone served at the cyclist or ran them off the road. 

We had a pretty famous case here in LA on a popular canyon route where a physician pulled in front of two cyclists and slammed on his brakes.  Convicted of felony assault and lost his medical license.  he gets out of prison soon, I think.

I think about that case every time I go to Laguna to see family.  Similar type road and I have biked it.  I wondered how that story is going.

Also the one where they driver shot the cyclist for punching him.  Wonder who went to jail (if anyone) for that.

glad you're ok!

Glad to hear you're recovering, hopefully you have no long term problems.

Have they caught the guy who did it?

Thank you for the best wishes and also as far as catching the guy that did the road rage....not yet!  But my wife (SHES A GREAT DETECTIVE) is on it and the local law enforcement ( I believe are the best around in our area) have been extremely supportive.  The local cycling and triathlete folks are on it too BIG TIME!!  The local cycling club and triathletes have been AWESOME!  Everyone has been so good to me and they are even in the process of setting up a reward!  Law enforcement said this will get him and "SOMEONE WILL TURN HIM IN FOR MONEY"....lol.  When I'm healthy again i cant wait to get back on my bike and give back to our local cycling and triathlete community!  My health right now is getting better but there are some issues that came up because of this and Thursday I will see the doctor again and he will give me my options......(hopefully therapy) but nothing life threatening.  Thank you again for the nice comments.  This forum rocks!

p.s  I am a cyclist and have never been a triathlete but I always have thought you guys were the toughest athletes of any sport!

Thank you...and as far as being a triathlete....I have a very bad hip .....needing an operation....and the only thing i can do is ride a bike......lolol...but I'm admiring you guys!

Thank you on that!!!

Where can i get that...lolol?

I may be out f the norm here but where I come from,  if you flip someone the bird, its an invitation to fight.  People do it so carelessly because they havent had their butt kicked because of it.  I have, when I was 20.  I don't flip people the bird often and when I do, I freakin' mean it.  Never on my bike.  I'm not going to challenge someone in a car.  The cyclist is very lucky that he did not get run over or worse, as has been mentioned in previous posts.   We like to believe we are a civilized society but we've got a huge number of powder-keg, unhappy folks out on the roads looking to be badasses cause they spend too much time on the internet acting tough.  Those are the types of folks who will run you over in a moment of blind rage. 

  I dont believe in fighting or silly notions of proving your masculinity or any of that crap, but we are still pretty much animals and do animal things.  We get all puffed up  and bird flippy cause we don't actually have to get physical too often, if ever, with other people.

I'm sorry, I did not mean to imply that you were egging this dude on and I did read that you did not flip the guy the bird.  I was speaking in general terms and lots of cyclists do flip the bird.  My main point I was trying to get across is that we live in an increasingly angry population and its dangerous to provoke anybody, especially as flipping the bird is increasingly done and not considered a big deal.

  I don't excuse what this guy did to you by any means.  Please accept my apology if my post came across as a scolding or anyhing of that nature.

Yup. Additionally, I remind myself that if they don't take it out on me then and there, they'll probably take it out on the next cyclist (or runner) they come across. I bite my tongue to, hopefully, keep it from landing on someone else.