When you drive a motor vehicle, you regularly encounter more life-threatening situations than having an altercation with a 'crazy'/drunk, pissed-off bicyclist. And yet, you're expected to maintain your cool and follow the rules of the road, and the law of the land, and not actively try to kill someone with your car, no matter how much they may piss you off or scare you.

It's one thing if Darcy Allan Sheppard had a gun or a knife or something, but I suspect he did not, so I don't see how a reasonable person would get it into their head to suddenly drive off with a cyclist attached to their car, and speed into the wrong lane, and manage to get the cyclist smashed into as many obstacles as possible until he falls off and get runs over. And it's not like Michael Bryant didn't notice the guy was there.

Aside from which, Michael Bryant is a lawyer, he should know better than to speed away from the scene of an accident. He may have panicked because he was scared, either because he knew he was in the wrong or because a 'crazy' and drunk cyclist was mad at him, but that doesn't make what he did okay. He should have stopped to call the police, or ask bystanders for help, or something other than what he actually did. Regardless of the wrongness of the cyclist's actions, short of a reasonable anticipation of immediate personal harm against his person, he had no right and no reason to drive recklessly like that. He could easily have gotten more than just one person killed due to his actions.