When a black Lincoln Town Car plowed into the Hollywood barbershop where Richard Catlett was waiting for a haircut, he thought it was the end.

“He thinks he’s going to die,” said Catlett’s attorney, Ervin Gonzalez of Colson Hicks Eidson in Coral Gables. “He thinks that’s it. Fortunately, he didn’t die, but they damaged his knee pretty badly.”