This is the inconceivable moment a police officer hits a stationary biker head on because the driver was on his phone.
Footage from a helmet camera shows William Fasanello out for a bike ride in Peculiar, Missouri, pulling up to a stop sign and waiting patiently for the chance to turn.
As he’s waiting for traffic to pass a police cruiser makes a left turn onto the road the Fasanello is trying to turn off of.
Unfortunately the officer’s turn is too tight, and the vehicle plows straight into the biker, as if in slow motion.
A stunning video shows the moment a police officer runs into a biker who is stopped at a stop sign because the driver was looking at his phone instead of the road in Peculiar, Missouri
The biker William Fasanello sputters: ‘Whoa! Whoa!’ as the police cruiser hits him head on
‘When he started making his turn, I noticed it was too sharp and it was way too late even attempting jumping out of the way,’ Fasanello told Fox4.
In the video Fasanello falls to the ground sputtering in disbelief at what just happened.
The officer, Charles Wallace, pulls to the side of the road and gets out of his squad car to check on the fallen biker.
‘Why the f*** were you texting, officer?’ Fasanello asks.
The cop responds incredulously: ‘I wasn’t texting! I was looking at my phone!’
Wallace then admits he was in the wrong and apologizes for not paying attention.
Officer Charles Wallace comes over to check on Fasanello, who asks: ‘Why the f*** were you texting, officer?’ The cop replies: ‘I wasn’t texting! I was looking at my phone!’
According to Fasanello, Wallace then called in the Missouri State Police to handle the situation so there wasn’t a conflict of interest.
Fasanello said he was checked out by paramedics but ultimately escaped with only scrapes and bruises.
‘I mean there were a lot of thoughts going through my head in a very short amount of time, the first one, being he is not looking at me, he is looking at his phone, and two being this is really going to hurt,’ Fasanello said.
‘The curb weight on a Ford Explorer Police Interceptor is about 4,600-pounds, so when you say you got hit by a pile of bricks, it is not an exaggeration.’
His $7,000 bike, however, did not fare so well.
‘The handlebars got twisted, the impact most likely caused micro-fractures in the frame,’ Fasanello said.
‘Pretty much demolished the electronic shifting system. You know at the very least the department owes me a formal apology, and they owe me a replacement bike that does the exact same function as the old one, plus medical bills of course.’
Wallace is currently on paid leave until the investigation is complete.
Fasanello said: ‘Fortunately he just outright admitted fault, he said he was reading a text from a fellow officer he just received. He should exercise a little more what they used to call common sense. You are baffled at the utter irresponsibility of someone who does that.’
Wallace called in Missouri State Police to handle the situation to avoid a conflict of interest
Fasanello said he sustained a few scrapes and bruises but did not need to be hospitalized