Who needs a motorcycle to get killed by an SUV? - Page 3

 

Let's see if there's an out cry from the community.
 If it was you or I , running over a transient laying in the street, and
then leaving the scene of the accident. Whether we knew it or not, it would
be felony hit and run with a manslaughter charge to boot.

Thumper

 


Nope. If you were unaware that you'd been in an accident, hit-and-run does
not apply.

Actual example: Several years ago my mother was making a right turn at an
unsignaled intersection when a skateboarder entered the intersection from
the right hand side and hit her car in the rear quarter panel and bumper,
bouncing off and breaking his leg in the process. My mom had no idea that
there had been an accident, and proceeded on her way until a witness caught
up with her car about a mile away and informed her of what had happened. She
thereupon returned to the scene of the accident, arriving at the same time
the police and an ambulance got there, and gave her statement to the officer
along with the other witnesses.

The witnesses stated that my mother had given no visible sign that she'd
ever seen the kid (who'd been alongside and behind her) or that she'd known
that an accident had taken place, and that was that: no charges were ever
even contemplated, much less filed.

Pete

 

officer

Your mother returned to the accident scene, which would make it pretty
well damn near impossible to convict her in a jury trial.  Not that I am
doubting
the facts of the incident, but I would bet if it had been your father, and
nobody
had caught up with him and he hadn't returned to the accident scene, he
would
have been charged with hit and run.

Ted

 

Plus, she didn't run over the kid's head with her front wheel.

Thumper

 
I only throw the word murderer around as lightly as the police would have,
if a civilian had been driving the same SUV in the same incident.  -Dave