On Feb. 25 2023, Judy Smith saw her husband Mike Smith for the first time after an accident. When she saw him she thought the worst.
“I thought he was dead the first time I saw him,” she said, in a November meeting with the county attorney. “I don't understand. What is this man going to be charged with?”
Mike is facing life-long disability and financial suffering from a traffic incident while he was bicycling with his friends. Mike was somewhat lucky, he was one of the 17 injured. On a rural bridge in Goodyear, a pickup driver plowed through a cycling group Mike was a part of. The driver killed two and injured 17.
