fatal hit & run in Alexandria this morning - Braddock Rd & Commonwealth at 9am
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Anonymous
| Sounds as though that poor woman didn't have a chance. I wonder what on earth caused that driver of the truck to drive like that? It's horrible the way that woman died but her own blood has left irrefutable evidence of what happened to her. |
Anonymous
| So horrible. The city has now paved over the area where she was struck and dragged. |
Anonymous
| You are all a bunch of assholes blaming the victim. Why aren't you all outraged against the animal who fled tHe scene and left her to die? |
Anonymous
| So the hit and run driver has not been caught, correct? |
Anonymous
| No the driver was caught and questioned the same afternoon |
Anonymous
| Has anyone heard anything about the victim's life other than her name and age? I didn't know her, but I would like to know some details of her life as a way of paying tribute to her. |
Anonymous
| Pay tribute by slowing down and sharing the road. |
Anonymous
I wish I knew as well. We live close to Del Ray. I think others may not understand how small the City really is. This is just so terribly sad. |
Anonymous
+ 1 to infinity |
Anonymous
+1,000,000 Less than 2yrs ago, Jennifer Lawson was struck and killed by a truck driver as she loaded her toddler into her minivan. Just like Ms Bogart, she was doing her normal, everyday thing just like all of us do. The threads on that tragedy were dozens of pages long, IIRC. At the time, many posters encouraged all of us to slow down, be aware of those around us, and so on. I wonder how many people still do? Are you still consciously more careful, especially in school zones or residential streets? Have you stayed slow, stayed alert, and stayed off your phone? |
Anonymous
| The fact we have heard virtually nothing about the driver of the truck and the company tells the rest of the story. |
Anonymous
Clue me in. Are you suggesting he was not to blame? |
Anonymous
Please. Get. Out. Of. The. Road. |
Anonymous
That is a pretty self-centered answer. Shit happens. Little Timmy could chase his ball into the street. |
Anonymous
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I live in the area, and travel on Commonwealth and Braddock very often, sometimes multiple times a day. From what I understand the truck was traveling eastbound on Braddock and making a right hand turn on the southbound lanes of Commonwealth and basically clipped the woman, who was jogging I think. Why she was in the road I don't know. Others have pointed out that there is a bunch of overgrown bamboo there right by the bus stop, so maybe she always runs in the street or at this point was in the street to run around the bamboo. Whatever, it really doesn't matter.
Over the last few days I have found myself going southbound on Commonwealth and getting stuck at that intersection at the red light and being the first car waiting for the light to change so I can continue through the intersection going south. As I wait for the light to change, I watch the cars coming down Braddock and turning right (as they have the green light) and car after car after car is flying through the 25 mph zone and taking that right turn insanely close to the curb, when there is an ample amount of room to take an appropriately wider (but not too wide turn). I see people with zone 7 parking stickers (for Rosemont) so they must live in the neighborhood. I cannot believe how fast they are going, and how close they get to the sidewalk when they turn to the right. one after the other after the other. It is no surprise that if someone is just driving along like that that it was inevitable someone would get hit. I am surprised more cars don't just completely jump the curb. I wouldn't be entirely surprised if this particular driver took the turn just as narrow, going just as fast as all the others and didn't have time to stop or may not have exactly seen someone who would have been on her passenger side before there was a collision. But I have a very hard time believing the driver didn't know she had hit something 1) based on the insanely gruesome aftermath, part of which I saw, that was so stained on the road they had to pave over it the next day, 2) the tire tracks are still there and show some erratic driving right after the point of impact and 3) it has been reported in the neighborhood from several sources the truck driver made a comment to the construction crew where she dropped her load 4 blocks from the accident that "she thought she might have hit something back there" yet she didn't drive back by to check. Instead she just drove back to Maryland. If I thought I had hit something with my huge construction truck, I would have stopped or at least gone the 4 blocks back to where I thought it had happened. But this person just left, left the state in fact. One last point, Virginia is a contributory negligent state. If the victim was indeed jugging in the road, it may be the driver just gets charged with leaving the scene of an accident, and not vehicular manslaughter. I think unless it can be proven the driver was grossly negligent (excessive speeding, texting or talking on a cell, etc.), the hitting part may not charged. It's the running part that is the problem. The sad accident mentioned above where the woman was hit by the trash truck in front of her kids' school, I think that driver stayed at the scene of the crim. and I don't think the driver was charged, partially because the mother was unfortunately partially in the line of traffic on the driver side of the car buckling in the child in the back seat. |