It sounded like an explosion! That’s how the victim of a violent crash describes getting hit by a motorcycle going at least double the posted speed limit.
It happened back on the night of Jan. 30.
Video from a camera mounted on the helmet of 21-year-old Ryan Decubellis shows him weaving on his motorcycle through traffic at a high rate of speed, and seeming to taunt marked Pinellas cruisers.
Scott Colletti watched the video for the first time.
“Right around, this is when I heard, this is when I heard it was coming. And I was looking both ways,” he said.
He couldn’t avoid the speeding biker. The impact sheared off the front of Colletti’s Kia Optima.
“Kind of making my palms start to sweat and getting me very, very angry about that,” said Colletti.
Ryan Decubellis, speaking on the phone would not offer an apology for what he did, and said, he almost died.
Colletti remembers the point of impact very well.
“On impact, I just actually watched him go over my car, slow motion,” he said.
Several law enforcement agencies are cracking down on speeding bikers in Pinellas County.
“The ones we ran into last time tried to portray themselves as they’re not bad people, they just like to speed,” said Rob Shaw with the Clearwater Police Department.
Scott Colletti, a biker himself, is having back pains.
“He almost killed me. And it could have ended my life for doing something stupid that he did,” he said.
Ryan Decubellis plead guilty to reckless driving and not having a motorcycle endorsement. He said he didn’t want the video to be put out.
