The death of a Lake Zurich motorcyclist, killed when she was struck at a traffic light by a driver painting her fingernails, has been ruled an accident, authorities said Monday.
our comment: WHAT THE F*&;K???? Have the Lake County authorities been trained by the Florida legislators????
The autopsy found Anita Zaffke, 56, died of internal injuries to her chest and abdomen and a fractured spine after the crash Saturday afternoon, Lake County Coroner Richard Keller said.
Our comment: Ms. Zaffke did not die of internal injuries! She was killed by another selfish, self centered, negligent driver whose whole world revolves around themselves and do not have enough respect for the lives of loved ones of others to keep their eyes on the freaking road!!!!!!!!
Keller also said a toxicology test run on the driver, Lora L. Hunt, 48, of Morris, was negative. Police do not suspect alcohol or drugs were a factor in the crash, Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran said.
Our Comment: Which means she can't even use the excuse of alcoholism/addiction or other impairment. She made a sober conscious decision to risk the lives of others in order to have "pretty nails"
Curran said Hunt experienced "a momentary lapse" and was not paying attention.
Our comment: Bullshit Sheriff Curran. You are right she was not paying attention. HOWEVER how "MOMENTARY" correctly applying nail polish to TEN FINGERS you dip shit.
"We can all learn from this in the sense that cars are dangerous instruments. We need to be careful, always," he said.
Our Comment: You pathetic excuse for somebody who is sworn to serve and protect!!!!! Um, they do not tell you prior to getting a drivers license that vehichles are dangerous and one might should be "CAREFULL"?????????????????????
Zaffke, who was wearing a helmet, was riding her Honda Shadow motorcycle south on Rand Road when she stopped at a yellow traffic signal at Old McHenry Road near Lake Zurich. Hunt told police she was painting her fingernails as she drove her Chevy Impala toward the intersection and did not see Zaffke until after she hit her, authorities said.
Hunt's attorney Ragan Freitag told ABC 7 that she has not seen the police report and won't comment on whether Hunt was painting her nails while driving. "At this point she is really distressed. There are some things she remembers and some things she doesn't - she is distraught over this," Freitag told ABC 7.
Zaffke and her motorcycle were pushed forward a few hundred feet by the force of the impact, authorities said.
ABC 7 reported Monday family members said Zaffke was heading from her son's Waukegan apartment to her home. They had been talking about plans for Mother's Day.
"I was pretty much in disbelief at first," said Greg Zaffke, Anita Zaffke's son. "We went up to the intersection, just went up and down, to try to see how this could possibly have happened."
Lake County sheriff's office spokesman Sgt. Christopher Thompson said Hunt has been charged with failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident.
OUR COMMENT: YO SGT. Thompson did the words resulting in death occur to you????????
How about Reckless driving?????? How about Careless driving??????? Is this like after pointing a gun at somebody and pulling the trigger I can get charged with "FAILURE TO REDUCE THE SPEED OF THE BULLET TO AVOID KILLING SOMEBODY??????????"
Curran said the accident would be reconstructed as part of the investigation. Findings will be turned over to the Lake County state's attorney's office for a determination of whether additional charges are warranted, possibly by the end of the week.
OUR COMMENT/QUESTION: And how will you do that? I have an idea, take Sgt. Thompson sit
him on a stopped motorcycle, you get in a car and paint your freaking nails..........you get my drift????????
"That's going to be the state's attorney's office call," Curran said. "They'll look at everything including the rate of speed."
Curran said there were no skid marks at the accident scene, where the speed limit is 55 mph.
No additional details about the accident are expected to be available until the end of the week when the investigation is finished and the case is turned over to the Lake County state's attorney's office, Thompson added.
Greg Zaffke now wears black nail polish to bring attention to the need for stricter penalties for people who hurt motorcyclists like his mom, according to ABC 7.
"I'm sure there are motorcycle groups who would like to hear about this story and potentially help us get the story out," he said.
Our Comment: Greg, we morn your loss as we morn the loss of thousands of others who loss their lives senselessly due not only to the negligence of drivers, but to the complicit legislators, states attorneys offices, other bureaucratic officers and most sadly of all the many motorcycle groups that will bitch and moan and write another letter to their legislator while sitting on their assess allowing the same to occur over and over and over.....................Add to Technorati Favorites
So how do we get involved? Is the AMA involved yet? As a long time member, I will call them this afternoon and ask them what they plan to do. Should we call the Lake County attorney? Does anyone have experience pressing these horrific situations forward? Thanks-
ReplyDeleteThe AMA has a long list of crashes as egregious, some even more so considering the penalties handed out.
ReplyDeleteMy personal experience with contacting States attorneys or any governmental agency in Florida is buck passing, excuses and little or nothing done. Is Illinois different?
We will see what if anything Illinois Bikers can get done.
Large numbers of people contacted every person imaginable re: the Hope Steffy case in Canton, Ohio and although not Biker related it was a horrific individual rights abuse. It too has faded into history with time and no one held accountable.
You won't like my answer, it involves street action.
Ask yourself,
How did the Blacks finally get their rights,
how did women finally get their rights,
How did we finally get out of Vietnam?
When people said enough is enough and hit the streets!
I still think it is funny when I see bikers going down the road doing wheelies, driving on the shoulder, in between stopped traffic and riding next to one another talking like John and Ponch. But when something bad happens and it does woah! If there are seat belt laws there should be helmet laws. Ok I need some more tatoos.
ReplyDeletesee if you can get the artist to tattoo you a brain to replace the one your missing rc
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