Wow Bill, you weren't kidding this guy really is clueless about what he did wrong.
First an introduction, I am the CADFather, and I have dabbled in home brewing in the past, but as an alcoholic I have found it best not to brew anymore. I am however a motorcyclist who suffered a major crash September 18, 2006. The crash involved a "oblivi-tard" that was parked in the median of an interstate and needed to turn at the next exit. The "oblivi-tard" had stopped in the median (left shoulder) to check his map and see if he needed to take the next exit (right shoulder) as it turns out he did. So the "oblivi-tard" decides that he needs to make the turn and pulls back out into traffic, cutting across 5 lanes of traffic to get to the exit, only he doesn't make it any farther than the third lane. That is where we met one another.
I was travelling in the third lane of the interstate
AT the posted speed limit on my 2002 Road Star Warrior, when I saw this "oblivi-tard" pull out from the median cutting across traffic. I immediately start processing my options (first mistake, I should have already had my options considered before getting in this position)
1. I could try to stop, not going to happen and even if it does the soccer mom in the van directly behind me would rear end me.
2. I could try to avoid the "oblivi-tard" by cutting in his direction of travel and hope to get around him and the 18 -wheeler directly to my right.
3. I could try to avoid the "oblivi-tard" by cutting opposite to his direction of travel and hopefully miss colliding with him.
I chose option #3, and as it turns out, the "oblivi-tard" was only running about 15 mph on his mad dash across the interstate during monday morning rush hour, I was running 55 mph according to the police reports and witnesses. I impacted the "oblivi-tard" from the rear and in the crash, suffered major head trauma, that resulted in my having a stroke, a distal femur and tibial plateau fracture of the right leg, the bones of my thumb on my left hand were broken in several places, several cracked ribs and 4 cracked vertebrae in my neck. I went into a coma when I got to the hospital which I was in for 15 days after I woke up I underwent several surgeries to repair the knee, and then the hand, and at some point suffered a stroke from the head trauma. The surgeons said that I was very lucky to have survived the first couple of nights, and that I would probably never walk again. I'm 41 years old, an avid outdoorsman, I hunt, fish, play paint-ball, re-enact the American Civil War or well used to do those things. I can walk but only with the use of a cane and can't get over broken ground very well, but I'm not in that wheelchair or on a walker and my orthopedic surgeon says he can't explain how.
Basically I wound up with a little over $1,500,000 in hospital bills and have to disclose that I've had a stroke on my medical records, will walk with a limp the rest of my life, and the "oblivi-tard"? Well he got cited with "reckless driving" which carries a $50.00 fine and 8 hours community service. That was his punishment and in the eyes of the law we're even. His excuse for pulling out into traffic when he went to court for the "Reckless Driving" charge "He didn't see me." When asked "Why, he didn't see me" by the judge, his answer was "'Cause he was speedin." The judge having already heard the testimony of the 4 witnesses and the 2 police officers told the "oblivi-tard," "Don't go there, you werent paying attention to what you were doing and caused this accident."
Well, in summary sir, I say to you in the same vein as the judge told the other "oblivi-tard" in my case, "Don't go there, you werent paying attention to what you were doing and caused this accident."
(This is a very true story and it did happen to me, here are some photos of the bike and the x-ray of my knee.)
Before the crash:
And After: