Cage driver on cell ran my son-in-law off the road today

[burkbuilds]

We were celebrating my wife's birthday this afternoon and in walks my son-in-law covered in mud. "What happened to you?" we asked, he told us that a lady talking on her cell phone came around the curve towards him in his lane and he had to jump the curb and a ditch and landed in somebody's muddy yard to keep from becoming a hood ornament. When he hit the mud the bike started sliding and he layed her down in the muck. He was "pinned" under the right side but fortunately not against the exhaust and other than the brake pedal being bent up no damage to the bike. There were several witnesses and the lady stopped and called 911 telling them she had just killed somebody on a motorcycle. The man who's yard he landed in was sitting on the front porch when it happened and he helped get the bike off of him and then proceeded to chew out the girl driving the car. The cops cited her for driving while distracted, failure to maintain lane, 20mph over posted speed limit and I'm not sure what else, but they automatically suspended her license. Since he wasn't injured, the bike started up and he was able to bend the brake pedal back we are very thankful!
He said he saw her talking on the phone and looking down towards the passenger floor board, then she glanced up and looked at him, looked back down and then jerked her head back up really quickly with wide eyes but it was too late for her to avoid him so he just dropped a gear and gunned it over the curb to avoid getting hit. I don't know if I would have had the foresight to have taken that particular action but I'm glad he did.