I agree that she should lose her privilege to drive.  I suspect that will be
the result.  It is such a hard thing when people lose faculties because of
age to know at what point they need to stop driving before they kill or
seriously injure somebody. What she did was terribly wrong and I'll be
relieved if she does not get another chance to kill someone.  I can't say
how grateful I am that my SIL will be O.K. and that my daughter was not
riding with him.
However, I know nothing about this woman.  I'm assuming that she is not so
cold-hearted that she would on purpose cause a wreck and leave somebody for
dead in a ditch. I could be wrong.  Some people are like that.
But, I'm not ready to judge her.  She could just as easily be someone who
lives alone without close family and not able to assess her own ability to
drive safely. I guess that what I'm saying is that we have no way of knowing
at this point what she was thinking or what may have influenced her actions.
I do know that she is in serious trouble, thanks to witnesses who got
involved. They got license plate and description of the car and gave the
information to the police. Otherwise, she would not have been caught.  My
SIL does not remember what happened because of his head injury.  Without the
person or people who turned the woman in, his wreck probably would have been
considered just a guy on a motorcycle who lost control and ended up in a
ditch.
Also, I am so grateful to those who stopped and rendered aid and called an
ambulance.
So many people are afraid to get involved these days.
My SIL, by the way, when he heard what had happened, asked if the driver of
the car was O.K.  That is the kind of person he is.  She left him for dead
or to die, and he asks how she is.
So, I ask for purrs for my SIL because I know he deserves them, and for the
driver of the car because I don't know for a fact that she doesn't deserve
them, but I'm sure she needs them.
Annie