What shocks, angers and disgusts me the most is that guy was an ER physician of all things and left these obviously injured people to rot in the street and not attend to or even give a cursory examination as to their injuries. They could have had head trauma. At the very least he should have known — correct that — he DID KNOW — to stabilize their heads and necks; particularly the fellow with the facial injuries. When 911 asked if the cyclists were hurt he said “yes, but they can tell you about it.” He showed clear reckless disregard for human life. I’m glad he’s broke, I’m glad he’s been run out of town, and anyone who says he’s a compassionate and caring doctor must also believe in the Easter Bunny and Area 51. No compassionate and caring doctor deliberately injures people and then lets them lay injured in the road and stands by and does nothing — particularly when their specialty is emergency medicine. He deserves jail time — particularly as he has a history of tangling with bicyclists before. He seemed to think the canyon was his own personal property and now he’s going to find out the hard way it wasn’t.”
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posted in response to LA Times article on sentencing of ‘Dr. Road Rage’
Today, January 8, Dr. Christopher Thomspon received a sentence of 5 years after assaulting and seriously injuring two cyclists with his car after a road rage incident in LA.
additional info via Associate Press:
Christopher Thompson, 60, wept and apologized to the two injured riders before he was sentenced in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
“The physical and mental scars are my fault,” he said.
He has recurring nightmares about one cyclist smashing through his car window, Thompson said.
Prosecutors had sought an eight-year term while Thompson’s attorney argued for probation.
Thompson, who worked at Beverly Hospital in Montebello, has been jailed since he was convicted in November of assault with a deadly weapon, battery with serious bodily injury, reckless driving and mayhem.
Thompson deliberately hit his brakes, causing the bicyclists to hit the back of his Infiniti sedan on July 4, 2008, prosecutors said. One rider smashed through the back window, breaking his nose and front teeth. The other crashed to the pavement, separating his shoulder.
