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Arnold Avoids Citation, Will Get Bike License
Not even the Governator is above the law.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has vowed to update his license after a weekend motorcycle crash revealed he had been riding his Hog illegally.
The former action hero was piloting his Harley-Davidson not far from his Brentwood home when he struck a Volvo SUV pulling out of a driveway. Schwarzenegger needed 15 stitches to patch up a bloody lip; his 12-year-old son, Patrick, who was riding in a sidecar, was not injured. Both were wearing helmets.
Traffic officers arriving on scene determined that Schwarzenegger did not have the appropriate license to ride the bike. The Terminator star was not cited for a violation, but he was given a warning.
Per California law, failure to obtain a proper motorcycle license can result in fines up to $250 or more.
The Los Angeles police findings, however, were disputed by officials at the Department of Motor Vehicles, who said the attached sidecar meant Schwarzenegger was driving a vehicle with three wheels, not two. In a Class C license, which Schwarzenegger has, a loophole in state law allows a person to drive a bike with a sidecar without obtaining a separate motorcycle license.
On Wednesday, the Los Angeles Police Department and City Attorney's Office said that after reviewing the case, Schwarzenegger wouldn't be cited, due to department policy against writing a ticket for a traffic violation not witnessed by an officer.
Schwarzenegger has frequently been spotted tooling around on his bike sans sidecar, however. Four years ago, he ran into a car while riding his motorcycle and took a nasty spill, breaking six ribs in the process.
Schwarzenegger's spokeswoman says that whatever the technical interpretations of the law, her boss was "committed to moving forward with getting the proper certification."
For his part, the onetime Kindergarten Cop star said he never thought much about the status of his license until his head-on with the Volvo.
"I just never really applied for it," Schwarzenegger told reporters Tuesday, noting that he had a motorcycle license in Austria in the late 1960s.
Schwarzenegger also insisted he wasn't to blame for his latest crash.
"We were going 20 miles per hour up the canyon and the woman drove out, stopped, looked to the left, saw me--looked me right in the eye--and looked to the right and then drove out anyway," the actor-turned-politician said. "It was just too short of a distance for me to put the brakes on."
Before introducing his new state budget Tuesday, Schwarzenegger couldn't resist using the motorcycle mishap to joke about his currently tenuous political situation.
"I just couldn't make a decision which way to go," he said. "I knew if I turned left that the Republicans will get mad, and I knew if I turned right my wife will get mad. So I just crashed right into the car. This was the safer thing to do."
We're sure the people of California feel safer all ready.
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