Following a suspected road rage incident that was captured on camera, a California driver is charged with attempted murder after colliding with a motorcyclist and dragging the defenseless rider hundreds of feet across an intersection.
On April 1, the unidentified motorcycle approached a junction in Riverside, California’s La Sierra area. The heart-pounding moment was captured on camera.
The cyclist had to swerve around the black Nissan to avoid colliding with it when it raced out in front of the bike at the red light.
The irate motorcyclist claims that the bad driving caused him to start shaking his head, which infuriated the driver, Gary Delandro, 32.
“Yeah I got mad, I’m shaking my head, and I looked back, and I see him roll down the window.. and I see him saying something,” the biker stated.
The motorcyclist dismounted and proceeded to the Nissan in order to confront Delandro.
“He says ‘why are you shaking your head at me?’ and I said ‘it’s because you cut over as I was coming up,’ so he says ‘well you’re behind me, I’m first,’ and I said ‘that’s not how it works, if you’re that upset about that, go seek therapy,’” the biker remembered.
After exchanging no more words, the rider drove away, only to halt at the next crossroads.
Delandro followed the motorcycle without the rider’s knowledge, swerving through traffic before colliding with the bike.
“I look back, just in time to see the front end of his car squeezing between both cars, he rear-ends me, knocks me off the bike and then floors it over me,” the motorcyclist stated.
As the driver accelerated, the motorcyclist was trapped beneath the front bumper of the sedan, causing the defenseless rider to be pulled across the pavement.
The disturbing video shows the rider trying to force himself out from underneath the car while letting out muffled screams.
The biker had no idea how fast Delandro was traveling at the time of the potentially fatal collision.
“It was a few seconds. It felt like forever. I started slipping, and I could see the undercarriage of the car… and I went from being mad to being scared,” he stated.
At last, Delandro reduced the speed of his vehicle and went into reverse, releasing the stranded motorcyclist from beneath.
Without checking on the rider, who had moderate injuries that required stitches below his knee and burns all over his body, the vehicle hurried away from the scene.
The road ripped apart his backpack and clothing.
According to jail documents seen by The Post, Delandro surrendered himself to Riverside police a few hours later.
He is being held at the Robert Presley Detention Center on charges of attempted murder, hit-and-run, and assault with a deadly weapon, all of which are felonies.
Delandro almost died as a result of the biker’s savage criticism of him.
“With people like that, they don’t care about anyone else; he sure as hell didn’t care about me but the people around him, the people he had to cut through… those are dangerous people… I know there’s a large community of people who dislike the fact that we split lanes, but there is a safety measure to it, there’s a reason why California permits it, there’s a safe way to do it, there’s a not smart way to do it, but at the end of the day… it shouldn’t warrant trying to kill somebody.”
With the passage of legislation in 2016, California became the first state to allow motorcycle riders to split lanes.
According to Inszone Insurance, four additional states have now approved lane splitting in one way or another, with Utah, Arizona, Montana, and Hawaii permitting what is referred to as “shoulder surfing” or lane filtering in specific situations.
This information has been sourced from NY Post.
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