Tucson victim of hit and run taken off life support
For seven long, quiet years, bicyclist Ross Yokoyama – the victim of a hit-and-run driver – clung to the edge of life, confined to a bed in a Tucson nursing home, until his family finally let him go Friday morning…
Along with several other victims of fatal and disabling car-bicycle collisions, Yokoyama unknowingly became a symbol of the effort to impose tougher penalties on the drivers who cause these tragedies.
For all these years after that awful night in December 2000 – when a young woman crashed her car into Yokoyama as he rode home from work, then left him alone and critically injured – he lay silent and immobile, with perhaps only a glimmer of awareness of the world around him.
Source: www.azstarnet.com