Thomas Haswell
339. Iowa City, Iowa. April 29. Bicyclist struck and injured by a “newer silver, four-door, Pontiac Grand Am.”
340. Milton, Wash. April 28. 15-year-old girl killed in a hit-and-run while walking home from church. Eyewitness reports enabled police to find the two men who fled the scene in the vehicle.
341. Utica, NY. April 29. Pedestrian injured when a gray car hit-and-ran.
342. Grand Forks, ND. April 27. 20-year-old University of North Dakota student hospitalized after she was struck by a late-model red car which jumped the curb that fled.
Related stories:
— A 19-year-old was arrested today in connection with the March 28 fatal hit-and-run of 17-year-old Denise Cotteta just outside of Philadelphia. Somehow, Philadelphia Daily News turns the story of the arrest into a morality tale about preventing your children from drinking to a .028 BAC rather than why the unlicensed driver fled. Classy. I’m sure that’s exactly what her parents wanted to read today, Dana.
— A 92-year-old WWII vet (pictured) in Sunderland, U.K. was “mown down” by a hit-and-run scumbag.
— San Francisco, where they crash cars and back into occupied bus shelters.
— Oh look, 22-year-old douchebag Garrett Cheney is going to fight back against charges that he fatally hit a University of Maine student named Jordyn Bakley on Jan. 30. Atta guy. And, lawyer dude, “vigorously challenged,” really? Star of your cliche class, I’ll bet.
— Worst hit-and-run ever? You be the judge.
— For readers not from the Philly area, the case of a Temple University graduating senior hitting-and-running a Temple University graduating law student within eyeshots of the Art Museum (Rocky steps) has garnered a bit of attention. I went to a bail-conditions hearing at the Philly Criminal Justice Center; here’s what I saw.
More hit-and-run stories, including every volume of Hit-and-Run America (in reverse order), are accessible from this linked page. (The full Volume-by-Volume list will appear sporadically from now on.)