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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one is paying attention in that video — not the driver and not the pedestrians. Morons all around.[/quote]

Regardless of anyone's intelligence, the driver of that vehicle deliberately backed up, went around and past the person he hit, and drove off. [/quote]

Maybe he didn’t realize he got anyone? It’s a big car.  Giving benefit of doubt, innocent until guilty you know?[/quote]

Man, the screw-everybody-but-cars posters are acting even more insane than usual over this.

Between this post, the one saying "anti-car people seem almost giddy" when people get hit by cars, and the posters blaming the parent for proceeding in the crosswalk, this thread may just be the high-water mark for craziness on a thread in DC Local Politics.[/quote]

+1000  Are the friends and family of the criminal who ran the family over posting over and over again in this thread? [/quote]

Honestly, I think that many of the aforementioned insane posters are, like the SUV driver who mowed over the family, negligent and reckless. They have a vested interest in obfuscating, excusing, and handwaving away the actions of other reckless drivers to ensure that they, too, do not suffer the consequences of their actions.[/quote]

totally. basically every single time you cross the street on the Hill, it follows the same pattern: step into crosswalk, car rolls up to the stop line, ped checks to assess that car is actually going to yeild, ped continues to cross while car rolls through intersection. this is *every single time.* cars NEVER fullg stop or stay stopped until the pedestrians finish crossing. They ALWAYS roll through WHILE peds are crossing. The video clearly shows this common pattern, except instead of rolling slowly to yield, the driver inexplicably speeds up and hits them. [/quote]

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