@KPalm And you'd be right to be curious! Allow me to try and explain myself.
I was a bit close to the accident for personal reasons, so when I saw this thread, and read how the rider had been behaving after the wreck, (suing the family, posting pictures of his bike online saying RIP, getting another bike) it pushed me to pursue the story further. The information I gave above was given to me by a trusted friend (egg on my face, huh) who used to be quite close to the riders family when the boy was in school.
I am genuinely sorry to not only you all, but to the families of those involved. I should've known better than to share something without any official source, I suppose the false news was so believable to me I didn't stop to question it.