Today a judge in Los Angeles, CA has sentenced Dr. Christopher Thompson to five years in prison for intentionally injuring two cyclists in a road rage assault that took place on July 2008.

Dr. Thompson was convicted of mayhem, assault with a deadly weapon, battery with serious injury, and reckless driving.

“I would like to apologize deeply, profoundly from the bottom of my heart,” he told them, his right hand cuffed to a court chair.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Scott T. Millington called the case a “wake-up call” to motorists and cyclists and urged local government to provide riders with more bike lanes. He said he believed that Thompson had shown a lack of remorse during the case and that the victims were particularly vulnerable while riding their bicycles.