Phoenix hit-and-run victim Martha Sanchez
2535. Queen, NY. May 13. 47-year-old man fatally struck by a dark colored sedan which fled the scene.
2536. Modesto, Cal. May 12. Pedestrian fatally struck by a Toyota sedan which fled the scene.
2537. Memphis, Tenn. May 12. Pedestrian struck by a late-model four-door sedan which fled the scene.
2538. Erie, Pa. May 13. 51-year-old man fatally struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
2539. San Francisco. May 12. 62-year-old man in critical condition after being struck by a late-90s model Chevrolet SUV, possibly a Suburban, with tinted windows and a California license plate with the last two numbers “24,” which fled the scene.
2540. Hutchinson, Kansas. May 12. 26-year-old man’s leg amputated below the knee after struck by a motorcycle which fled the scene.
2541. Nashville, Tenn. May 14. Pedestrian struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
Related stories:
In which the Mets gets sued in relation to a hit-and-run fatality…
The family of a Staten Island woman killed in a hit-and-run is blaming the Mets for getting the driver too boozed up at Citi Field on April 5, the night she died.
A lawsuit filed May 6 names the team, driver Brian McGurk, his friend Robert Kelly, stadium vendors and a local bar, Nurnberger Bierhaus on Castleton Ave., as all allegedly responsible for the woman’s tragic end.
McGurk, 40, allegedly left the scene after mowing down Clara Almazo, 57, who bravely saved her 8-year-old grandson’s life by pushing him away from the speeding Ford Escape as they were walking home from Holy Thursday church services.
Meanwhile, on Saturday, Timothy Cardinal Dolan, invoked Almazo’s sacrifice in a moving commencement speech at his alma mater, Catholic University in Washington.
“Clara’s selfless act of heroic love was, as you might imagine, the tearful talk of New York over the Easter weekend,” Dolan said.
Her “life-giving act was made the more poignant as it came on the night before Jesus died.”
And I quote (I)…
Garner, N.C. — Garner police are looking for a man who shot another motorist and fled from the scene of a wreck early Sunday.
Around 1 a.m., a red, late-model sedan rear-ended a 2001 Toyota car leaving a shopping center on Jones Sausage Road, between East Garner Road and U.S. Highway 70. A confrontation occurred, during which the sedan driver asked the man and woman in the Toyota not to call police.
When the two refused, police said, the sedan driver shot the Toyota passenger, Marcario Nunez Bustos, four times and fled the scene.
And I quote (II)…
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — The son of the woman accused in a deadly hit and run crash that happened May 7, says his mother left the crash scene to call police.
And I quote (III)…
Gomez and about two dozen family members attached flyers to the balloons they hope will land back on the ground and into the right hands.
The flyers describe what happened to Gomez’s mother, Martha Sanchez.
She was crossing Indian School Road and 28th Street when she was hit by a car that never stopped back in February.
“We’re not going to forget,” said Jennifer Duran, Sanchez’s daughter-in-law.
“Somebody had to have seen something or know something,” Gomez said. “We’re just hurting.”
Police think Sanchez was hit by a person driving a dark colored, small sized sedan.
“They pretty much just left her to die there,” Gomez said.
“It’s the day before mother’s day and it’s our first mother’s day without her,” Duran said.
And I quote (IV)…
An alleged drunken driver is accused of crashing into a car on Highway 101 and then trying to push the other driver into traffic.
Joshua Fowler, 30, of Santa Rosa, was arrested after sideswiping a vehicle in San Rafael and assaulting the other car’s driver and passengers, the California Highway Patrol said.
The incident occurred around 6:50 p.m. Friday, when Fowler was driving a 2001 Mazda Tribute south on Highway 101. Multiple drivers called to report a reckless driver shortly before the collision.
Caught, convicted, court appearance or car-on-car in … Aurora, Ill.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Knoxville, Tenn.
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