Tampa surgeon in Tesla struck bicycling banker at about 80 mph, records say

[TexasTowelie]

TAMPA — As dawn broke one recent morning, a surgeon and a banker approached a curve in a New Tampa road from opposite directions.

Adam Hasebroock, a 43-year-old bank branch manager and avid triathlete, had rolled out on his bike early Nov. 4 to log some training miles and was pedaling south on Lizards Tail Road. Philip Henkin, a Tampa neurosurgeon with a penchant for breaking the speed limit, hurtled north in a Tesla sedan.

The Tesla came out on the wrong side of the road, police say, and struck Hasebroock head-on.

A traffic homicide detective would later write in an arrest report that, based in part on Hasebroock’s catastrophic injuries, Henkin was driving at least three times the posted speed limit of 20 mph .

Read more: https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2021/11/26/tampa-surgeon-in-tesla-struck-bicycling-banker-at-about-80-mph-records-say/

[cstanleytech]

1. Given the docs driving record no mercy should be shown and no plea deal offered nor accepted.

[TexasTowelie]

2. He obviously thought he was above the law

since he already had two speeding tickets dismissed.

[plimsoll]

3. He'll have a good lawyer.

I’m sure that somehow it can be made the guy on the bicycles fault. Who knows maybe the surgeon felt threatened. Let’s be honest, an increasing number of people believe that the roads are for motorized traffic only, there will be at least one on the jury..