I owe my life to a 1913 road rage incident

This is my great-grandfather, born Dominusz Andor in Szeged, Hungary in 1886. In the picture he is in Brooklyn, New York, probably sometime in the early 1950's. By 1911 Andor had moved from Hungary to Vienna and had changed the spelling of his name to “Dominus” to save confusion. He worked as a goldsmith, and owned his own jewelry shop, so he must have been doing OK. There's a family legend about why Andor left Vienna for the USA, and I was never sure whether I believed it. But thanks to the Wonders of the Internet, I was able to find out the details, which were all over the Viennese papers in the spring of 1913, and were even reported as far away as Budapest. In 1913, Andor owned a motorcycle with a sidecar. On March 24 he was driving around Vienna with his wife Rosa when the sidecar came detached. Andor stopped to repair it, and a crowd gathered to watch. Some local youths offered to “help”, rocking the motorcycle and honking its horn. After the sidecar was re-attached, Andor asked…