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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.

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

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?[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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. [/quote]

Do you not stop if you hit a dog???[/quote]

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

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

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. [/quote]

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? [/quote]

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