[Dottore]

It’s a gorgeous, sunny day here, and I’m driving down the street following a woman in one of those small Pontiac convertible cars. She has the top down, and I’m behind her in my Merc. ML looking right into her car. She’s juggling a day timer, cell phone and Starbucks latte, and trying to keep a small Pekinese dog in the passenger seat from jumping out of the car - while she’s driving. Her driving is completely erratic, narrowly missing some parked cars and crossing the center line several times.

All of a sudden, completely without warning or signal, she pulls the wheel to the left, and crosses the lane of oncoming traffic to duck into a dry cleaning shop on the left side of the street, and in the process completely nails a guy on a Triumph Bonneville who was slowly cruising towards us in the opposite direction. The driver of the Triumph gets catapulted about 30 feet and lands on a parked car. The bike is totaled and the driver seriously injured - possibly fatally.

Police and ambulance are there in seconds. The woman driver is hysterical and claims the bike “came out of nowhere” and “must have been speeding or she would have seen him coming”.

I saw this whole thing happen as if in slow motion - and the biker was clearly not speeding and not at fault. When I heard what the woman said to the police, I considered for a moment whether I should just walk away from the whole thing and not get involved. And then I thought “no way”. This woman just ruined someone’s life with her idiocy. Maybe even killed the guy.

So I asked to speak to the police, and told them that I had been following this woman for at least two kilometers, and how she was driving. Strangely there were no other witnesses, even though it was a fairly busy street. The police took a detailed statement from me, promised “to look into it” and “get back to me”. But my guess is they’re not going to press charges based on my statement alone, and this really pi$$es me off.

What would you guys do? Should I try to take this further somehow? Should I let it go and just see wait to see what the police do - if anything?