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Kudos to those in the crowd. Who knows how many others would have been hurt if they didn't get involved.
Dawn
Glad to see when people actually get involved instead of just stand around and do nothing.
For some reason I have personally witnessed alot of accidents, of which a couple have been hit and runs. The 1 that stands out for me was a woman that ran a VERY red light at one of the major intersections here in town and hit a vehicle turning thru the intersection. The vehicle that was hit was thrown into the lead vehicle in the turn lane of the cross traffic. That vehicle smashed into the vehicle behind it which caused that vehicle to hit the vehicle behind it, all together 5 vehicles were involved in the accident! The person who caused this accident deflected off of the car she hit (because the turning vehicle was at about a 45* angle to her) and was able to still continue driving down the road. She pulled into a parking lot about a 1/4 mile down the road, got out of her car and looked back at the intersection, then walked to the front of her car and looked at the damage (all this time I was on the cell phone with 911). After checking out her car she looked back at the intersection again then got in her car and took off! I tossed the cell phone to my buddy then took off after the hit and runner who was now about a 1/2 mile away (luckily I was in my sports car ;D). I caught up to her a couple miles away from the accident scene while she was fleeing and my buddy rattled off her plate and car description along with a description of her personally. I then returned to the accident scene, as/per request of the 911 operator, and was approached by the 1st police officer to arrive at the scene. He told me that police were waiting at her house (where they believed she was heading) and that she had an awful driving record with a couple hit and run accidents and that if she had another 1 she would loose her drivers license permanantly! While speaking with him he was informed over the CB that the woman had indeed gone home and was immediately arrested for leaving the scene of an accident with injuries. She actually claimed that she had not been in an accident and that someone had hit and run HER car while it was parked along the road in front of her house, thus causing the damage to her car! :o
Good & Bad.
Good that the morons were arrested.
Good that nobody was killed...
That second "good" encompasses the "bad" as well. If you recall the incident last year where a van in Chicago hit a pedestrian in a residential area and the driver (and maybe passanger too, I forget) was beaten to death by the crowd.
Crowd mentalities get out of hand REAL quick in tense situations like this.
QuoteGood & Bad.
Good that the morons were arrested.
Good that nobody was killed...
That second "good" encompasses the "bad" as well. If you recall the incident last year where a van in Chicago hit a pedestrian in a residential area and the driver (and maybe passanger too, I forget) was beaten to death by the crowd.
Crowd mentalities get out of hand REAL quick in tense situations like this.
Amen