The list: Nos. 1-17, 18-24, 25-30, 31-39, 40-43, 44-56, 57-64. 57. Dallas, Texas. Feb. 7. 30-year-old Good Samaritan struck, killed by two vehicles, including an SUV which left the scene. 58. Largo, Fla. Feb. 6. Unidentified pedestrian struck, critically injured…
Category: Hit-and-runs
Hit-and-Run America (Updated)
The list: Nos. 1-17, 18-24, 25-30, 31-39, 40-43, 44-56. 44. Shelby, Mich. Jan. 27. 16-year-old boy struck by “a 1997 to 2003 full size royal blue Ford pick-up. The right front headlight will be broken … and the truck is…
Hit-and-Run America (Vol. 5)
The list: Nos. 1-17, 18-24, 25-30, 31-39, 40-43. 40. Clayton, Ga. Jan. 10. 55-year-old Waffle House employee struck and killed by unknown vehicle while walking to work. 41. Lower Pottsgrove, Pa. Jan. 28. Woman struck by vehicle outside pharmacy. Treated…
Hit-and-Run America
The list: Nos. 1-17, 18-24, 25-30, 31-39. 31. Knoxville, Tenn. Jan. 30. 19-year-old woman critically injured when red Mitsubishi Eclipse strikes her when she gets out of car to check unrelated ice-involved collision. 32. Omaha, Neb. Jan. 31. 24-year-old struck…
Hit-and-Run America
Well this first one doesn’t add to the tally, because I’ve been numbering the ones I see with no arrests (in some cases, yet). But a shoplifting suspicion/likely-arrest led to a 39-year-old widely-respected documentary editor in New York CIty. That…
Hit-and-Run America
Continued. 18. Vallejo, Calif. Jan. 25. Blue sedan strikes, critically injures 39-year-old man crossing the street. 19. St. Bernard Parish, La. Jan. 25. 37-year-old woman fatally struck by an unidentified vehicle. Then struck by another vehicle, the driver of which…
Hit-and-Run America (Inaugural Edition)
The way I figure, if you’re reading this site, you know that I was a hit-and-run victim Thanksgiving Weekend ’08 so I won’t belabor the point. (If that’s news to you, I’m ok, and you can read about it here).…
Coming next week …
… or sometime soon, I’m going to start tracking hit-and-runs from across the country on here. I’ve already started getting some public-figure help in an effort to strengthen the penalties in Pa. — much more on that later — but…
Happy New Year, hit-and-run drivers
Well, I guess I’m talking specifically to the dirtbag that ran me over when I say, “Oh, you must have missed the sarcasm. I actually wish you the worst year imaginable.” I thought of you today, though, when I read…