Texting driver on cyclist she struck: "I just don't care"

[kpete]

Texting driver on cyclist she struck: "I just don't care"
Rob Beschizza at 6:48 am Tue, Apr 15, 2014 • 2 •

A woman in Australia was fined $4500 and lost her driver's license for 9 months after pleading guilty to dangerous driving Monday. According to The Standard, she struck the cyclist at 7:20 p.m. near Koroit, Victoria, having used her phone 44 times during the short drive from Warrnambool. Most striking, though, is what Kimberly Davis told investigators.

“I just don’t care because I’ve already been through a lot of bullshit and my car is like pretty expensive and now I have to fix it,” she told a police officer. “I’m kind of pissed off that the cyclist has hit the side of my car. I don’t agree that people texting and driving could hit a cyclist.”

The cyclist suffered a spinal fracture which required surgery and placement in a spinal cage at Melbourne’s Austin Hospital. He was originally told he could be left a paraplegic and spent three months recovering.

http://www.standard.net.au/story/2219242/i-just-dont-care-texting-p-plate-driver-hits-cyclist/
http://boingboing.net/2014/04/15/texting-driver-on-cyclist-she.html

[WhiteTara]

1. Hope she gets to walk a lot for the rest of her life.

Cause she shouldn't put such an expensive car at risk.

[Lizzie Poppet]

2. On glass.

Self-absorbed cretin...

[WhiteTara]

4. did you say broken glass? nt

[riqster]

6. Should have.

Iodine-coated, to boot. Barefoot.

[WhiteTara]

8. What makes people so callous?

[riqster]

12. Damfino. Scary, I say.

[frylock]

17. with her phone jammed up her ass

[Coventina]

3. She should lose her license PERMANENTLY

She obviously has no regard for anyone's life but her own.

She's a menace to society.

[ck4829]

5. "cyclist has hit the side of my car" - Something a self-centered sociopath would say

"I didn't run you over with my car, you ran into me and damaged it!"

[malaise]

7. One more thoughtless, entitled asshole

Throw away the keys.

[Arugula Latte]

9. "I don't agree that people texting and driving could hit a cyclist" -- WTF?!?!

She would make an excellent U.S. Republican -- she's sociopathic, and in complete denial of realities that aren't convenient for her.

[L0oniX]

10. There's always that Mac truck driver who's texting. Maybe she will get hit by that truck someday.

[Takket]

11. "I don’t agree that people texting and driving could hit a cyclist"

I don't even understand that sentance.... is she saying its impossible that someone texting could hit someone on a bicycle??? that makes no sense!

[wheniwasincongress]

13. "I don’t agree that people texting and driving could hit a cyclist.”

HUH?!

[Blue Owl]

14. That POS can GFH

n/t

[Junkdrawer]

15. Nothing wrong with her an Eternity in Hell couldn't fix...

Kimberly Davis - Party of One....

[tammywammy]

16. Her license should be permanently revoked. n/t

[Vashta Nerada]

18. I'm still trying to decipher ""I don’t agree that people texting and driving could hit a cyclist.”"

What?

She's an obvious sociopath. She needs to lose her license.

[QuestForSense]

19. "[S]he refused to render him assistance and left him lying on the side of the road."

People talk a lot of shit about not caring, but sometimes, like here, they're telling the truth.