Well at least you’re hitting .333

This.

Why does it matter if it were a FAMILY multi-use path? They weren’t designed or meant for motorized vehicles traveling faster and quicker than a pedaled bicycle.

This is one of those rare instances where both parties are wrong.

It’s a good thing they severely injured that guy or somebody worthwhile could have been severely injured.

This example needs more stars. 

Did the driver of the ATV not injure himself? I mean, he chose to ride his vehicle without safety gear, at speeds too fast for conditions, in an area he wasn’t supposed to be. And then he crashed his own vehicle at a high rate of speed into a stationary object of greater mass. Seems like driver error to me.

Did the driver of the ATV not injure himself? I mean, he chose to ride his vehicle without safety gear, at speeds too fast for conditions, in an area he wasn’t supposed to be. And then he crashed his own vehicle at a high rate of speed into a stationary object of greater mass. Seems like driver error to me.

I’m not upset at all about the serious injuries.  FAFO and all that.

Nah, bro. There are times when the cops should be skewered for their actions.

Just a few days ago, up in Albany, some moron driving an ATV on a pedestrian path hit a student, and now she’s in the hospital in a coma with a TBI. Alexa Kropf, University at Albany student from Floral Park, in medically induced coma after hit-and-run - Newsday

I’m guessing the ATV guy planned on blowing past the cruiser and was not expecting to be cut off. It is clear he did not plan on stopping and I am fine with what happened here.

What a piss poor comparison...

That guy must have been hauling ass, too, because it looks like a really long site-line to the cop car.  Or do ATVs have crappy brakes?

One was not an active threat to anyone, the other is a guy riding a vehicle that weighs a few hundred pounds at 30+ miles per hour on a path meant for pedestrians lol

Agreed. Bad take on Jalopnik’s part to suggest that the ATV driver running through a bunch of cyclists and pedestrians was the more desirable outcome than hitting a stopped police car. This isn’t exactly the trolley problem, because one of the outcomes is measurably worse than the other.

I am failing to see how the cop did not do *exactly* the right thing here. If moron was going too fast to stop in time to not hit a very plainly visible cop car, he was going too fast to not hit a pedestrian. Not like he came around a blind corner and there was the cop.

I’m trying to find an acceptable way that this could have been handled differently. Wait at the bottom hoping the ATV driver doesn’t run over anyone on the way down? Deploy spike strips, with probably similar results? Stand at the side of the road and shout at the ATV driver to stop, as he blows by and drives away?…

Two parties in the wrong you say?

A lot of ATV and dirt bikers illegally ride on hiking/biking singletrack trails in my area. And I hope every single one of these bastards suffer the same fate, whether it’s caused by cops or not.