Garbage Truck that killed cyclist in Petworth still not identified? What's going on?

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Anonymous wrote:I do not understand why he isn't charged for manslaughter. Of course this was not intentional, but it still led to a death. The driver needs legal consequences.

From the description of events, it isn't clear he ever saw them or knew he hit them.

That's my guess. That whole area is extremely congested. And who tries to flee the scene (as the initial reports said) in a truck with your employer's name and number on the side?

Well in Alexandria someone did; a woman driving a dump truck full of gravel ran over a woman and literally cut her IN HALF. She drove off, leaving the 2 halves in the middle of the road at Braddock and Commonwealth. She then drove 4 blocks, dumped her load of gravel, and then kept driving back into PG County where the gravel yard is. No skid marks to show braking. Nothing.

There were actual tire tracks of blood down Commonwealth, up W Masonic View and down Russell that it took no time at all to police to figure out who did it. Like within an hour.

There were NO witnesses (no other cars at the intersection) and no cameras at that light. The scene was so gruesome and bloody the city literally paved over it the very next day. And the woman wasn’t identified for two weeks. The whole thing was awful. I live 1 block away.

Driver claimed she thought she hit a dog (but didn’t stop). A dog. And that all the felt was a bump but didn’t stop. Because the police couldn’t find any witnesses so in the end they couldn’t find any evidence to refute the driver’s claim (even though everyone knows that the driver knew she had hit someone). So she was never charged.

Putting aside the utter classlessness of you describing gruesome details that someone who knew the deceased might now read, this plainly doesn't sound like someone fleeing. It sounds like the driver acted like someone who thought they hit a dog.

Do you not stop if you hit a dog???

Most people probably would but it doesn't seem that surprising if someone didn't.

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Anonymous wrote:I do not understand why he isn't charged for manslaughter. Of course this was not intentional, but it still led to a death. The driver needs legal consequences.

From the description of events, it isn't clear he ever saw them or knew he hit them.

That's my guess. That whole area is extremely congested. And who tries to flee the scene (as the initial reports said) in a truck with your employer's name and number on the side?

Well in Alexandria someone did; a woman driving a dump truck full of gravel ran over a woman and literally cut her IN HALF. She drove off, leaving the 2 halves in the middle of the road at Braddock and Commonwealth. She then drove 4 blocks, dumped her load of gravel, and then kept driving back into PG County where the gravel yard is. No skid marks to show braking. Nothing.

There were actual tire tracks of blood down Commonwealth, up W Masonic View and down Russell that it took no time at all to police to figure out who did it. Like within an hour.

There were NO witnesses (no other cars at the intersection) and no cameras at that light. The scene was so gruesome and bloody the city literally paved over it the very next day. And the woman wasn’t identified for two weeks. The whole thing was awful. I live 1 block away.

Driver claimed she thought she hit a dog (but didn’t stop). A dog. And that all the felt was a bump but didn’t stop. Because the police couldn’t find any witnesses so in the end they couldn’t find any evidence to refute the driver’s claim (even though everyone knows that the driver knew she had hit someone). So she was never charged.

Putting aside the utter classlessness of you describing gruesome details that someone who knew the deceased might now read, this plainly doesn't sound like someone fleeing. It sounds like the driver acted like someone who thought they hit a dog.

Do you not stop if you hit a dog???

Most people probably would but it doesn't seem that surprising if someone didn't.

What kind of savage shitbag doesn’t stop if they think they might have hit a dog?

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Anonymous wrote:I do not understand why he isn't charged for manslaughter. Of course this was not intentional, but it still led to a death. The driver needs legal consequences.

From the description of events, it isn't clear he ever saw them or knew he hit them.

That's my guess. That whole area is extremely congested. And who tries to flee the scene (as the initial reports said) in a truck with your employer's name and number on the side?

Well in Alexandria someone did; a woman driving a dump truck full of gravel ran over a woman and literally cut her IN HALF. She drove off, leaving the 2 halves in the middle of the road at Braddock and Commonwealth. She then drove 4 blocks, dumped her load of gravel, and then kept driving back into PG County where the gravel yard is. No skid marks to show braking. Nothing.

There were actual tire tracks of blood down Commonwealth, up W Masonic View and down Russell that it took no time at all to police to figure out who did it. Like within an hour.

There were NO witnesses (no other cars at the intersection) and no cameras at that light. The scene was so gruesome and bloody the city literally paved over it the very next day. And the woman wasn’t identified for two weeks. The whole thing was awful. I live 1 block away.

Driver claimed she thought she hit a dog (but didn’t stop). A dog. And that all the felt was a bump but didn’t stop. Because the police couldn’t find any witnesses so in the end they couldn’t find any evidence to refute the driver’s claim (even though everyone knows that the driver knew she had hit someone). So she was never charged.

Putting aside the utter classlessness of you describing gruesome details that someone who knew the deceased might now read, this plainly doesn't sound like someone fleeing. It sounds like the driver acted like someone who thought they hit a dog.

Do you not stop if you hit a dog???

Most people probably would but it doesn't seem that surprising if someone didn't.

What kind of savage shitbag doesn’t stop if they think they might have hit a dog?

I agree, but have you met DC area drivers?

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Anonymous wrote:I do not understand why he isn't charged for manslaughter. Of course this was not intentional, but it still led to a death. The driver needs legal consequences.

From the description of events, it isn't clear he ever saw them or knew he hit them.

That's my guess. That whole area is extremely congested. And who tries to flee the scene (as the initial reports said) in a truck with your employer's name and number on the side?

Well in Alexandria someone did; a woman driving a dump truck full of gravel ran over a woman and literally cut her IN HALF. She drove off, leaving the 2 halves in the middle of the road at Braddock and Commonwealth. She then drove 4 blocks, dumped her load of gravel, and then kept driving back into PG County where the gravel yard is. No skid marks to show braking. Nothing.

There were actual tire tracks of blood down Commonwealth, up W Masonic View and down Russell that it took no time at all to police to figure out who did it. Like within an hour.

There were NO witnesses (no other cars at the intersection) and no cameras at that light. The scene was so gruesome and bloody the city literally paved over it the very next day. And the woman wasn’t identified for two weeks. The whole thing was awful. I live 1 block away.

Driver claimed she thought she hit a dog (but didn’t stop). A dog. And that all the felt was a bump but didn’t stop. Because the police couldn’t find any witnesses so in the end they couldn’t find any evidence to refute the driver’s claim (even though everyone knows that the driver knew she had hit someone). So she was never charged.

Putting aside the utter classlessness of you describing gruesome details that someone who knew the deceased might now read, this plainly doesn't sound like someone fleeing. It sounds like the driver acted like someone who thought they hit a dog.

Do you not stop if you hit a dog???

Most people probably would but it doesn't seem that surprising if someone didn't.

What kind of savage shitbag doesn’t stop if they think they might have hit a dog?

Welcome to the big city. You'll find there's people here who do all kinds of crazy things.

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Anonymous wrote:I do not understand why he isn't charged for manslaughter. Of course this was not intentional, but it still led to a death. The driver needs legal consequences.

From the description of events, it isn't clear he ever saw them or knew he hit them.

That's my guess. That whole area is extremely congested. And who tries to flee the scene (as the initial reports said) in a truck with your employer's name and number on the side?

Well in Alexandria someone did; a woman driving a dump truck full of gravel ran over a woman and literally cut her IN HALF. She drove off, leaving the 2 halves in the middle of the road at Braddock and Commonwealth. She then drove 4 blocks, dumped her load of gravel, and then kept driving back into PG County where the gravel yard is. No skid marks to show braking. Nothing.

There were actual tire tracks of blood down Commonwealth, up W Masonic View and down Russell that it took no time at all to police to figure out who did it. Like within an hour.

There were NO witnesses (no other cars at the intersection) and no cameras at that light. The scene was so gruesome and bloody the city literally paved over it the very next day. And the woman wasn’t identified for two weeks. The whole thing was awful. I live 1 block away.

Driver claimed she thought she hit a dog (but didn’t stop). A dog. And that all the felt was a bump but didn’t stop. Because the police couldn’t find any witnesses so in the end they couldn’t find any evidence to refute the driver’s claim (even though everyone knows that the driver knew she had hit someone). So she was never charged.

Putting aside the utter classlessness of you describing gruesome details that someone who knew the deceased might now read, this plainly doesn't sound like someone fleeing. It sounds like the driver acted like someone who thought they hit a dog.

Do you not stop if you hit a dog???

Most people probably would but it doesn't seem that surprising if someone didn't.

What kind of savage shitbag doesn’t stop if they think they might have hit a dog?

I agree, but have you met DC area drivers?

Everyone everywhere thinks they have the worst drivers, but the streets of DC are actually fairly safe. On a per person basis, we have about one-third fewer traffic deaths due to speeding than the national average.

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Anonymous wrote:A garbage truck killed one cyclist and severely hurt another several days ago near Georgia Ave and Upshur St NW (4100 block of Kansas Ave). The truck fled the scene. There are images/video. I heard they found the truck. Certainly, the company who owns the truck knows who was in possession of their vehicle at the time of the accident. Why the hell has the driver not be identified, arrested, or cited? Who is getting protected? Something really fishy with this story.

https://wjla.com/news/local/trash-truck-driver-identified-fatal-hit-and-run-crash-involving-electric-bike-riders-kenny-jimmenez-rivera-petworth-neighborhood-hyattsville-maryland-georgia-avenue-kansas-avenue-upshur-street-woman-critically-injured-hurt-metropolitan-police-department

Good hit.

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Anonymous wrote:I do not understand why he isn't charged for manslaughter. Of course this was not intentional, but it still led to a death. The driver needs legal consequences.

From the description of events, it isn't clear he ever saw them or knew he hit them.

That's my guess. That whole area is extremely congested. And who tries to flee the scene (as the initial reports said) in a truck with your employer's name and number on the side?

Well in Alexandria someone did; a woman driving a dump truck full of gravel ran over a woman and literally cut her IN HALF. She drove off, leaving the 2 halves in the middle of the road at Braddock and Commonwealth. She then drove 4 blocks, dumped her load of gravel, and then kept driving back into PG County where the gravel yard is. No skid marks to show braking. Nothing.

There were actual tire tracks of blood down Commonwealth, up W Masonic View and down Russell that it took no time at all to police to figure out who did it. Like within an hour.

There were NO witnesses (no other cars at the intersection) and no cameras at that light. The scene was so gruesome and bloody the city literally paved over it the very next day. And the woman wasn’t identified for two weeks. The whole thing was awful. I live 1 block away.

Driver claimed she thought she hit a dog (but didn’t stop). A dog. And that all the felt was a bump but didn’t stop. Because the police couldn’t find any witnesses so in the end they couldn’t find any evidence to refute the driver’s claim (even though everyone knows that the driver knew she had hit someone). So she was never charged.

Putting aside the utter classlessness of you describing gruesome details that someone who knew the deceased might now read, this plainly doesn't sound like someone fleeing. It sounds like the driver acted like someone who thought they hit a dog.

Do you not stop if you hit a dog???

Most people probably would but it doesn't seem that surprising if someone didn't.

What kind of savage shitbag doesn’t stop if they think they might have hit a dog?

I agree, but have you met DC area drivers?

Everyone everywhere thinks they have the worst drivers, but the streets of DC are actually fairly safe. On a per person basis, we have about one-third fewer traffic deaths due to speeding than the national average.

"On average you're safe" is... one way to approach it.

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Anonymous wrote:I do not understand why he isn't charged for manslaughter. Of course this was not intentional, but it still led to a death. The driver needs legal consequences.

From the description of events, it isn't clear he ever saw them or knew he hit them.

So he just drove off and ditched his truck for funsies. Sounds very normal and not sociopathic, so par for the course for drivers in this area.

Perhaps the driver was an undocumented american, and feared they would be deported for what was basically an accident that was the fault of the cyclist. And it was. Cyclists shouldn’t go zooming past vehicles about to make a right turn on their right side. That’s like Bike-101. Stupid.


But if the driver feared being taken into ICE custody and separated from his family just because a cyclist did something dumb, I can totally understand and forgive them for leaving the scene. Someone else does something stupid and now YOU get deported? That’s BS.

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Anonymous wrote:I do not understand why he isn't charged for manslaughter. Of course this was not intentional, but it still led to a death. The driver needs legal consequences.

From the description of events, it isn't clear he ever saw them or knew he hit them.

That's my guess. That whole area is extremely congested. And who tries to flee the scene (as the initial reports said) in a truck with your employer's name and number on the side?

Well in Alexandria someone did; a woman driving a dump truck full of gravel ran over a woman and literally cut her IN HALF. She drove off, leaving the 2 halves in the middle of the road at Braddock and Commonwealth. She then drove 4 blocks, dumped her load of gravel, and then kept driving back into PG County where the gravel yard is. No skid marks to show braking. Nothing.

There were actual tire tracks of blood down Commonwealth, up W Masonic View and down Russell that it took no time at all to police to figure out who did it. Like within an hour.

There were NO witnesses (no other cars at the intersection) and no cameras at that light. The scene was so gruesome and bloody the city literally paved over it the very next day. And the woman wasn’t identified for two weeks. The whole thing was awful. I live 1 block away.

Driver claimed she thought she hit a dog (but didn’t stop). A dog. And that all the felt was a bump but didn’t stop. Because the police couldn’t find any witnesses so in the end they couldn’t find any evidence to refute the driver’s claim (even though everyone knows that the driver knew she had hit someone). So she was never charged.

Putting aside the utter classlessness of you describing gruesome details that someone who knew the deceased might now read, this plainly doesn't sound like someone fleeing. It sounds like the driver acted like someone who thought they hit a dog.

Do you not stop if you hit a dog???

Most people probably would but it doesn't seem that surprising if someone didn't.

What kind of savage shitbag doesn’t stop if they think they might have hit a dog?

I agree, but have you met DC area drivers?

Everyone everywhere thinks they have the worst drivers, but the streets of DC are actually fairly safe. On a per person basis, we have about one-third fewer traffic deaths due to speeding than the national average.

This is true for people IN CARS and is likely because most cars traveling in the city limits are not going fast enough to kill other people in cars when they crash. But cars and trucks kill plenty of cyclists and pedestrians every year - we are not low in pedestrian death statistics.

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Anonymous wrote:I do not understand why he isn't charged for manslaughter. Of course this was not intentional, but it still led to a death. The driver needs legal consequences.

From the description of events, it isn't clear he ever saw them or knew he hit them.

That's my guess. That whole area is extremely congested. And who tries to flee the scene (as the initial reports said) in a truck with your employer's name and number on the side?

Well in Alexandria someone did; a woman driving a dump truck full of gravel ran over a woman and literally cut her IN HALF. She drove off, leaving the 2 halves in the middle of the road at Braddock and Commonwealth. She then drove 4 blocks, dumped her load of gravel, and then kept driving back into PG County where the gravel yard is. No skid marks to show braking. Nothing.

There were actual tire tracks of blood down Commonwealth, up W Masonic View and down Russell that it took no time at all to police to figure out who did it. Like within an hour.

There were NO witnesses (no other cars at the intersection) and no cameras at that light. The scene was so gruesome and bloody the city literally paved over it the very next day. And the woman wasn’t identified for two weeks. The whole thing was awful. I live 1 block away.

Driver claimed she thought she hit a dog (but didn’t stop). A dog. And that all the felt was a bump but didn’t stop. Because the police couldn’t find any witnesses so in the end they couldn’t find any evidence to refute the driver’s claim (even though everyone knows that the driver knew she had hit someone). So she was never charged.

Putting aside the utter classlessness of you describing gruesome details that someone who knew the deceased might now read, this plainly doesn't sound like someone fleeing. It sounds like the driver acted like someone who thought they hit a dog.

Do you not stop if you hit a dog???

Most people probably would but it doesn't seem that surprising if someone didn't.

What kind of savage shitbag doesn’t stop if they think they might have hit a dog?

This reminds me of living in Wilmington NC on a super rainy evening on our way a class or something. It was my Mom, me, and my siblings. The cars were slowing down and running over something or around it. My mom slammed on her brakes and ran out of the car in the pouring rain because in the middle of the road was an older Golden Retriever/lab dog. He had been hit and people either kept running over him or not stopping and driving around. She pulled him off of the road and held him while he took his last breaths.
Yelled at us to stay in the car and got back in soaking wet. Cursing every person who had come before her and crying.

No worse then in MS where dogs were stolen from yards and then put into dogfighting rings. Our dog was taken and then dumped -or escaped and ran back to us- we never did find out with a cauterized small dinner size plate hole in her flank. She had been gone for two weeks, had other injuries, and we had put up flyers all over. She just stumbled into our driveway while I was playing basketball. My mom raced her to the country vet and his diagnosis was she had been branded and they cauterized the brand out and then likely left her somewhere to die or be hit by a car.

So lots of savage shitbags. Even in "God's Country". This area has nothing on the South.

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I love how we're not astounded by the stupid things people do while driving. Just biking - they are the only ones.

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Anonymous wrote:I do not understand why he isn't charged for manslaughter. Of course this was not intentional, but it still led to a death. The driver needs legal consequences.

From the description of events, it isn't clear he ever saw them or knew he hit them.

That's my guess. That whole area is extremely congested. And who tries to flee the scene (as the initial reports said) in a truck with your employer's name and number on the side?

Well in Alexandria someone did; a woman driving a dump truck full of gravel ran over a woman and literally cut her IN HALF. She drove off, leaving the 2 halves in the middle of the road at Braddock and Commonwealth. She then drove 4 blocks, dumped her load of gravel, and then kept driving back into PG County where the gravel yard is. No skid marks to show braking. Nothing.

There were actual tire tracks of blood down Commonwealth, up W Masonic View and down Russell that it took no time at all to police to figure out who did it. Like within an hour.

There were NO witnesses (no other cars at the intersection) and no cameras at that light. The scene was so gruesome and bloody the city literally paved over it the very next day. And the woman wasn’t identified for two weeks. The whole thing was awful. I live 1 block away.

Driver claimed she thought she hit a dog (but didn’t stop). A dog. And that all the felt was a bump but didn’t stop. Because the police couldn’t find any witnesses so in the end they couldn’t find any evidence to refute the driver’s claim (even though everyone knows that the driver knew she had hit someone). So she was never charged.

Putting aside the utter classlessness of you describing gruesome details that someone who knew the deceased might now read, this plainly doesn't sound like someone fleeing. It sounds like the driver acted like someone who thought they hit a dog.

Do you not stop if you hit a dog???

Most people probably would but it doesn't seem that surprising if someone didn't.

What kind of savage shitbag doesn’t stop if they think they might have hit a dog?

This reminds me of living in Wilmington NC on a super rainy evening on our way a class or something. It was my Mom, me, and my siblings. The cars were slowing down and running over something or around it. My mom slammed on her brakes and ran out of the car in the pouring rain because in the middle of the road was an older Golden Retriever/lab dog. He had been hit and people either kept running over him or not stopping and driving around. She pulled him off of the road and held him while he took his last breaths.
Yelled at us to stay in the car and got back in soaking wet. Cursing every person who had come before her and crying.

No worse then in MS where dogs were stolen from yards and then put into dogfighting rings. Our dog was taken and then dumped -or escaped and ran back to us- we never did find out with a cauterized small dinner size plate hole in her flank. She had been gone for two weeks, had other injuries, and we had put up flyers all over. She just stumbled into our driveway while I was playing basketball. My mom raced her to the country vet and his diagnosis was she had been branded and they cauterized the brand out and then likely left her somewhere to die or be hit by a car.

So lots of savage shitbags. Even in "God's Country". This area has nothing on the South.

That was very nice of your mother to comfort the dying dog , but incredibly reckless to leave you guys alone in a car stopped in the road on a dark rainy evening where clearly, visibility was poor enough for someone to have run over a living thing already. I love dogs but I would not have risked my kids lives like that. What if you’d opened your door and run to your mom even though she had told you not to?

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Anonymous wrote:I do not understand why he isn't charged for manslaughter. Of course this was not intentional, but it still led to a death. The driver needs legal consequences.

From the description of events, it isn't clear he ever saw them or knew he hit them.

That's my guess. That whole area is extremely congested. And who tries to flee the scene (as the initial reports said) in a truck with your employer's name and number on the side?

Well in Alexandria someone did; a woman driving a dump truck full of gravel ran over a woman and literally cut her IN HALF. She drove off, leaving the 2 halves in the middle of the road at Braddock and Commonwealth. She then drove 4 blocks, dumped her load of gravel, and then kept driving back into PG County where the gravel yard is. No skid marks to show braking. Nothing.

There were actual tire tracks of blood down Commonwealth, up W Masonic View and down Russell that it took no time at all to police to figure out who did it. Like within an hour.

There were NO witnesses (no other cars at the intersection) and no cameras at that light. The scene was so gruesome and bloody the city literally paved over it the very next day. And the woman wasn’t identified for two weeks. The whole thing was awful. I live 1 block away.

Driver claimed she thought she hit a dog (but didn’t stop). A dog. And that all the felt was a bump but didn’t stop. Because the police couldn’t find any witnesses so in the end they couldn’t find any evidence to refute the driver’s claim (even though everyone knows that the driver knew she had hit someone). So she was never charged.

Putting aside the utter classlessness of you describing gruesome details that someone who knew the deceased might now read, this plainly doesn't sound like someone fleeing. It sounds like the driver acted like someone who thought they hit a dog.

Do you not stop if you hit a dog???

Most people probably would but it doesn't seem that surprising if someone didn't.

What kind of savage shitbag doesn’t stop if they think they might have hit a dog?

I have never seen someone stop after hitting a squirrel or a cat (have seen both more than once), and I’ve seen 2 dogs hit and the driver did stop for one of them.
It’s not illegal to not stop. Sometimes it’s not safe, either (see the example where the mom jumped out of the car at night in the rain because of a poor dog that had been hit, in what was apparently pretty decent traffic, leaving her kids in the car to do so. That could have very easily been a tragedy).

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Anonymous wrote:I do not understand why he isn't charged for manslaughter. Of course this was not intentional, but it still led to a death. The driver needs legal consequences.

From the description of events, it isn't clear he ever saw them or knew he hit them.

That's my guess. That whole area is extremely congested. And who tries to flee the scene (as the initial reports said) in a truck with your employer's name and number on the side?

Well in Alexandria someone did; a woman driving a dump truck full of gravel ran over a woman and literally cut her IN HALF. She drove off, leaving the 2 halves in the middle of the road at Braddock and Commonwealth. She then drove 4 blocks, dumped her load of gravel, and then kept driving back into PG County where the gravel yard is. No skid marks to show braking. Nothing.

There were actual tire tracks of blood down Commonwealth, up W Masonic View and down Russell that it took no time at all to police to figure out who did it. Like within an hour.

There were NO witnesses (no other cars at the intersection) and no cameras at that light. The scene was so gruesome and bloody the city literally paved over it the very next day. And the woman wasn’t identified for two weeks. The whole thing was awful. I live 1 block away.

Driver claimed she thought she hit a dog (but didn’t stop). A dog. And that all the felt was a bump but didn’t stop. Because the police couldn’t find any witnesses so in the end they couldn’t find any evidence to refute the driver’s claim (even though everyone knows that the driver knew she had hit someone). So she was never charged.

Putting aside the utter classlessness of you describing gruesome details that someone who knew the deceased might now read, this plainly doesn't sound like someone fleeing. It sounds like the driver acted like someone who thought they hit a dog.

Do you not stop if you hit a dog???

Most people probably would but it doesn't seem that surprising if someone didn't.

What kind of savage shitbag doesn’t stop if they think they might have hit a dog?

I agree, but have you met DC area drivers?

Everyone everywhere thinks they have the worst drivers, but the streets of DC are actually fairly safe. On a per person basis, we have about one-third fewer traffic deaths due to speeding than the national average.

This is true for people IN CARS and is likely because most cars traveling in the city limits are not going fast enough to kill other people in cars when they crash. But cars and trucks kill plenty of cyclists and pedestrians every year - we are not low in pedestrian death statistics.

DC has a lot of drunk and stoned drivers, which is a byproduct of the city replacing police enforcement with traffic cameras. If you're ever been around anyone with a substance problem, they know exactly what they can get away with. Cameras don't stop drunk drivers, as they all know.

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Anonymous wrote:I do not understand why he isn't charged for manslaughter. Of course this was not intentional, but it still led to a death. The driver needs legal consequences.

From the description of events, it isn't clear he ever saw them or knew he hit them.

So he just drove off and ditched his truck for funsies. Sounds very normal and not sociopathic, so par for the course for drivers in this area.

Perhaps the driver was an undocumented american, and feared they would be deported for what was basically an accident that was the fault of the cyclist. And it was. Cyclists shouldn’t go zooming past vehicles about to make a right turn on their right side. That’s like Bike-101. Stupid.


But if the driver feared being taken into ICE custody and separated from his family just because a cyclist did something dumb, I can totally understand and forgive them for leaving the scene. Someone else does something stupid and now YOU get deported? That’s BS.

Why jump to conclusions when you can manifest assumptions out of thin air.

Unless you were an eye witness to the crash (not an accident), you are an irresponsible nincompoop for peddling baseless rumors.

Although we get plenty of baseless assumptions about how everything is always the driver's fault. Also, we can please stop with this stupid crash/accident nomenclature bullshit? It's very tedious.