Pretty weird story. Guessing he’ll probably argue justified since he was the one attempting to get away from the altercation and the crazy bike guy was the one hanging on to the car. Should be interesting as they get more witness testimony.
The ordeal began around 9:45 p.m., on Bloor Street between Bay Street and Avenue Road, at a traffic light. Police said the cyclist and a man in a convertible got into an “altercation.” What followed next is unclear, but according to witness accounts, the cyclist found himself gripping to the outside of the car driver’s door as it sped away.
The driver was now going west in the eastbound curb lane, leaving the cyclist clinging to the curbside door of the car. The cyclist, clinging to the car as it sped away, then struck trees and a grey mailbox like a “human battering ram,” Mr. Brazeau said.
“You could hear hitting, something, bam, bam, bam,” a third worker said.
The cyclist fell off the car when he struck the mailbox, and collapsed in a heap of blood on the sidewalk in front of Sephora. The driver kept going, hanging a right at Avenue Road.
uh… pwned?
This part is interesting too, at least in his defense.
A car matching descriptions from other witnesses, registered to Mr. Bryant, was found a short time later in the parking lot of the Hyatt hotel, which sits on the northwest corner of Bloor and Avenue, just metres from the crash site.
Several people, including someone “closely related” to Mr. Bryant, called 911, police said.
You just had to ram some trees to get a guy off your car. Not sure how many reasonable people would stop right there and give the crazy guy another chance to come after you. Can you really consider it hit and run if you stop less than a block away? Who was this “closely related” person who called 911? Were they in the car? Whole lot of questions have to be answered here.