Driver Runs into Motorcyclist, After He's Told to Stop Texting

When lane sharing in Los Angeles, you can usually spot the drivers texting. It's seemingly every 5th car, and they're typically slowly swerving back and forth and just generally not paying attention. RideApart reader, Samuel David Ayres, decided to inform a driver of the dangers in texting… sort of... and that driver didn't like that very much.

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WARNING: For those watching the video in the office, watch out, there's a curse word in the opening few seconds.

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Sam said he noticed a black BMW texting. As Sam filtered to the front of traffic at a stop light, turning South onto La Cienega Blvd. in LA, he leaned over and yelled at the driver to stop texting. The cager didn't like this very much, blew his horn and began to drive aggressively. Sam said he slowed down to give himself more time to react if something happened. While the wide shot of the GoPro distorts the edges of the footage, Sam said he remained fully in the left lane during the entire clip.

Here's his side of the story: "I was fully in the left lane the entire time. When the driver started getting really aggressive with me, I definitely slowed down to give myself extra reaction time (there wasn't enough traffic to really get away from him right there). I was going probably about 30mph or so... slowed down from maybe 40-ish?"

After the adrenaline wore off, Sam discovered he had a bad concussion, "bad enough for me to forget what day, month and year it was and knocking all memory of the past week out of my head," wrote Sam. Along with, "two hairline fractures in my left shoulder and a broken left foot (which would require surgery)."

According to Sam he's spoken with the police, but they haven't been table to track down the driver yet.