A Friend & coworker was riding his bike to work yesterday morning on 1516 heading south toward I-10 ( south side of SanAntonio )when he came up on two cagers having some road rage , he said one in front of the other was brake checking the car following ,doing about 20 mph at times not letting it pass. He stayed back away for them till they got to I-10 and the car in front just stop at the 4 way ,no signal and was not moving at all ,he saw his chance to get away from the hot head and went around them on the right turning right on to the frontage road heading to The on ramp to I-10 is about 100 yard he said he looked in the mirror to see this guys front bumper about 20 inches behind him severing wildly back and forth ,thinking holy crap I got to get away from this guy !!! as he was interring the on ramp at 45 mph the guy then deliberately rammed him from behind sending him into the ditch sideways . He stayed on the bike when it went down , the floor board dug into the dirt stopping very quickly doing mimnal damage to him and the bike , he was able to walk away and drive the bike home so all together he was very lucky. The cager sped away and got away for now but he will recognize the car if he ever seen it again plus got a good look at the driver . The other cager saw the incident stopped to give aid but instructed by my friend to give chase & get a license number but he could not catch the A-hole . The police wrote this up as road rage and that was the end of it for them with no information on the other guy.
This just makes me wonder when you read in the paper about a biker who apparently loosed control on a straight road or fails to negotiate a curve crashes and dies how many of them could have just been the result of a cagers road rage using their car as a weapon ?
Ride safe E
