Gothamist: Bronx Hit-and-Run: 91-Year-Old's Legs Severed

Barbj8

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:29:54 -0500

That wasn't my fault. I kept getting an error message. That wasn't my fault. I kept getting an error message. That wasn't my fault. I kept getting an error message.

Barbj8

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:01:07 -0500

Hey Pete, fuck you. You think you'll never get old?

Gwinny

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:08:17 -0500

drewo: an excellent point. It seems that hit and runs (whether of pedestrians or cyclists) just aren't sexy enough for the media.

JacqueMehoff

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:53:04 -0500

they'll get the guy, it was one of the clearest surveillance photos I've ever seen. Oh, if I heard the news report correctly, the tractor trailer lurched forward while she was crossing. now if this meant he didn't see her when the light changed, I don't know. Mechanical failure, I don't know. but that's one of fears when crossing in front of a tractor trailer.

JMH

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:37:26 -0500

Yes, whereas hit and run drivers actually make people DIE. Our priorities are fucked up.

kearnj

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:03:22 -0500

Bombs make people FREAK out.

drewo

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:29:31 -0500

So a guy on a bicycle drops a firecracker at the Times Square army recruitment office, which shatters some glass in the middle of the night, and the Mayor and his cronies are all over the news the next day, fuminating and vowing to find the "criminal". (Subsequently the city and the news media have dutifully forgotten this story). Meanwhile last week, two pedstrians were struck and killed by trucks in midtown on the same night, and then, this hit-and-run maiming yesterday. Where's the grandstanding now from our public officials? Oh, of course, the TV cameras are nowhere to be found, and neither are our elected officials.

drewo

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:11:06 -0500

I've seen senior citizen relatives that hold up traffic for 5-20 seconds after the light is green because of slow walking speed. Yes, life is difficult for you, isn't it?

pete

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:03:47 -0500

Old people shouldn't be allowed to walk across busy streets, just like little kids. I've seen senior citizen relatives that hold up traffic for 5-20 seconds after the light is green because of slow walking speed. Get a scooter at that rate, your asking to be killed.

JRod5417

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:01:00 -0500

Oh no! I hope she makes it out alive and that they find the SOB who did this.

HowBoutDemCowboys

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:50:56 -0500

Hit and run drivers are TRASH, plain and simple.