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

I agree, but have you met DC area drivers?[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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