A Florida man was arrested last week after he “brake-checked” an e-bike rider with a golf cart, causing his body to fly forward onto the back of it “with his legs dangling” on the ground, cops say. The driver then “dragged him for 50 to 100 yards” — leaving the victim with multiple injuries — before fleeing, according to police.
A resident who witnessed the incident unfold on Marco Island told investigators he saw “what looked like something falling off the back” of Steven Pickett’s golf cart, which turned out to be the victim, but Pickett refused to stop, per a local police report.
“[The witness] yelled to the driver that something just fell off … but the driver just waved and kept going,” the report says, noting how Pickett “looked at him in amazement,” in reference to the witness…