Douchebag Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison After Swerving Into Biker
Around late 2015, the horrific video above went viral. It depicted Texan William Crum violently swerving into an overtaking motorbike near Granbury, resulting in the rider and a pillion passenger hitting the deck hard.
18 months on, 69-year-old has at last been sentenced for his actions. Despite claiming to have momentarily lost control of the car due to being bitten by a spider (yes, really), Crum has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for “two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon,” his lawyer confirmed last week. He’s been behind bars since his arrest on 19 October 2015, shortly after the incident.
While we do - sadly - see videos like this from time to time, this particular crash stood out due to Crum nonchalantly stating “I don’t care” to the following biker who recorded everything on a helmet camera.
The rider knocked off - 37-year-old Eric Sanders - suffered only minor injuries, but his passenger - 38-year-old Debra Simpson - ended up in intensive care, having suffered a broken arm plus multiple scrapes and bruises.
It’d be remiss of us to not to point out that Sanders was overtaking in a no passing zone with two solid lines in the middle of the road, but illegal or not, it looked like a relatively safe, well-sighted pass. And I’m sure we can all agree that using your car as a deadly weapon is not the right response for another road user’s rule-breaking…
Source: Star Telegram via Lanesplitter
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Bikers move on to Portugal, here bikers are treated with respect, such thing will never happen here :)
Fifteen years is too hefty of a sentence for this
Absolutely not! The guy tried to kill them. There is no feeling like the freedom of riding on two wheels, but that comes with many risks that are beyond anyone’s control. When you add in factors, other than the rider’s judgement calls, that are under someone’s control that puts the rider at risk, they need to be held responsible at the full extent of the law. If I were that man with the camera, that scumbag old man wouldn’t be alive to see trial and it would be me serving a hefty sentence.
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Stupid idiot ..
Someone said Texas?