Scooter rider in coma after impatient driver passes on wrong side, family says

A Gwinnett County man has been in a coma for nearly a week after police say a driver ran out of patience behind slow traffic, swung into the oncoming lane and hit him as he turned.

The man was riding a scooter home from work just before 6 p.m. on Sept. 1 when the crash happened at Arc Way and Willow Wood Way, according to a Gwinnett County police crash report.

The driver told officers she thought it was OK to drive on the wrong side of the road because no one was coming in the oncoming lanes, the report says…

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