I should have added this in the post but... who running this towing company would think anybody’s going to pay $50k to get their shitty XJ back? Or that this guy even has that kind of money?

They are billing this guy for liability insurance? Does that mean this business is not insured? Time to sue their ass.

The relationship between cops and tow company’s is incredibly sleazy. Tow companies will often throw the cops money for getting them business, wich in turn makes cops overly trigger happy to call for a tow.

many places have minimums as well. as well as the catch-all driving unsafe for conditions, which driving 20 under could be considered.

Exactly.

Good points...which will be immediately disregarded on this site cause these motherfuckers HATE two wheeled anything

I wonder how legal it would be for the officer to tell him you had died, let him stew on that for a bit, and then tell the truth.

I doubt he was going that slow solely because he was inept. Likely he was going slow purposely to be an ass and provoke “those gull-durn kids on their fancy-pants furren motor-sickle” into passing like that so he can self-justify his dickishness.

Oh and I meant to add - note in this situation, if this guy did in fact douchily slow down (another common douche tactic), the motorcyclist was correct that this was not the type of twit to hang around near....

To all of you saying passing on the DY is automatically Bad - stop. Just stop.

a) You probably don’t ride. Believe me, there are plenty of places that are unsafe for a car to pass where it’s no problem for a bike (either due to the bike being able to do the pass or simply because of things like better sightlines due to…

Sanders added in the clarification post that his reason for passing the car was its slowing down to around 20 mph under the speed limit for that particular area.

I had the similar thing happen to me.( Although, I was just cruising along and the guy swerved at me from the oncoming lane) I was taken out and a few guys that were behind me chased the guy down and made him stop. When the Trooper told him he was lucky that I was still alive, his response was “ Fine, so can you just…

I doubt you would get Attempted Murder: Probably Vehicular assault or Aggravate Assault. The motorcyclist would likely get a ticket for an illegal pass, but that doesn't give a driver license for intentionally hitting someone with a vehicle.

“Sorry for passing you on a double yellow, I’d love to help pay for any hospital bills you have oh wait”

They’re not going that fast. The camera man is riding a smaller displacement bike, so it sounds like he’s really getting on it when he goes to pass, but you can tell by how quickly they are passing those mile markers and road signs, they’re not really tearing it up.

Looks fairly obviously intentional on the video to me.

...I don’t know that not wearing gear and passing on a double yellow equate to assault with a vehicle...

100% correct!

He consciously used his vehicle as a weapon.

The driver should be charged with attempted murder - but because he “only” hit a motorcycle, he won’t be.

I’m surprised that the asshole driver even stopped.