Gothamist: Woman Charged After Fatal Hit-and-Run

ABC Girl

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:51:24 -0500

A few newspapers are reporting that angel wings were found near the little boy's body by police responding to the scene...The senseless death of this little boy just breaks my heart. If the female driver who hit the family and caused the boy's death was experiencing heart problems, was blacking out and was on heavy medications, WHY OH WHY was she behind the wheel of an SUV?

Not Amused

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:07:04 -0500

See now that's that BULLSHIT!!!! These Gothamist cats Claim my posts are in poor taste . I see it's ok to tell someone else to go jerk-off another guy ! me go and call Sheldon Silver a "Cockblocker" and all hell breaks loose!!!!

Not Amused

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:02:48 -0500

Throw the book at her ! It gets tiresome to continually read about some stupid driver doing something they had no business doing . Don't get me wrong, If you can pass the drivers test the you should be able to drive . It's the drivers that think that because they've been driving for some time that it affords them a level of priviledge . On top of that, She tried to leave after knocking over some parking meters ! Oh, and the whole heart attack thing Nice! I bet she'll try to use the language barrier as a defense to get a lesser sentence .

concerned citizen

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 02:22:14 -0500

My heart goes out to the victims and their family. This is just awful. When OH WHEN will SUVs be made illegal? They only exist because of a loophole in the gas milage laws. The drivers become overly aggressive and when involved in incidents they kill people more often.

Sucka

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 01:58:53 -0500

I hope they put her away for a good long time, instead of continually giving drivers license to kill anyone that gets near them by not investigating/prosecuting these "accidents."

My Name Is Pearl

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:27:25 -0500

Mike and F, You two semantic puds should go jerk each other off in a closet. Clearly you have nothing more interesting in your life to do than obsess over blog grammar. You two must be seriously lonely.

jj

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:22:33 -0500

nr. Dude it's not chinese people that are the problem. It's chinese women.

Bob

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:59:32 -0500

Even the city's big bicyclist fatality study a few months ago very deliberately avoided using the word "accident." The word is so much more judgement-laden than something like "crash" or "incident." And it also implies: "Oops... Accidents happen. What are you gonna do about it? Oh well." It makes it seem like these kinds of incidents are somehow unavoidable and unpreventable. Using the word accident helps continue this idea that we can't change the way our streets are designed and managed and used -- that this kind of car carnage is the natural, unavoidable order of things. I'm surprised that Gothamist still uses this word to describe car crashes like these.

mike

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:03:36 -0500

Ditto re: "accidents" vs. "crashes". How do you automatically know it was an accident?

F

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:05:35 -0500

Jen, Isn't it time to stop writing up crashes like these as "accidents," particularly when we know from the report that the crash was caused by someone doing something reckless and illegal. Many state transpo agencies have stopped using the word "accident" to describe crashes such as these.

nr

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:24:22 -0500

women and chinese people should not be allowed to drive anything larger than a shopping cart.

power blok

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:56:09 -0500

I thought 4WD vehicles handle better in the rain? A Yukon, jeez, is she a general contractor or something? she's lucky gas prices are going down. I like how witnesses saw her running and followed her. Great going guys.

toby

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:51:14 -0500

um... SUVs are more dangerous when people can't handle them. What a horrible accident. It's really sad...

Larry

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:50:43 -0500

No one under 80 is named Bertilde. The SUV is a quintessential Brooklyn car. Another price you have to pay for living there rather than Manhattan.

ck_bk

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:50:32 -0500

come on, idiot. is there a reason for your ignorance (raised by red-necks?) or are just an a-hole? SUV-on-SUV accident results in death and mauling of pedestrians. Meanwhile, police waste resources to shut down critical mass. Clearly the answer is more SUVs on the road - that way there will be no more room in the street for people to speed or otherwise drive recklessly. oh and blame the victims; what were these kids doing walking on the sidewalk in the first place? what were they poor? they would still be alive and well if they had been travelling encased in 4000 pounds of American-made armor as god (and this city's sagacious planners) intended it.

Kojak

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:47:10 -0500

"Sober women Drivers are more dangerous than Drunk driving men." Damn Straight.

Rocknrope

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:46:51 -0500

Yeah..."heart attack". The same way Redd Foxx would have a heart attack on Sanford and Son. "Oh, you caught me running from the scene of an accident....I'm comin' 'lizabeth!"

jj

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:32:41 -0500

Sober women Drivers are more dangerous than Drunk driving men.