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[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]

This is a pretty famous case in Alexandria and the gruesome details are widely known and reinforce the fact that the driver absolutely knew she had run over someone. What is classless is being an apologist for this abhorrent behavior that needlessly took a life.

The details here matter. That woman mattered. WITW is wrong with you?[/quote]

I've never hit a person, let alone doing it while I was driving a dump truck full of gravel. But I suspect it's nothing like hitting a person in a Prius. The account says the driver never braked nor made any attempt to flee and continued to go about their businesses, all of which would indicate they didnt know they hit someone. There were no witnesses or cameras so who are you to say otherwise? You haven't cited any actual evidence. Also, you should try to learn to write in a way that doesn't make you sound like a whiny little b**ch. [/quote]

YIKES with the language. Is your Google broken?

This 2015 case had its own DCUM thread. The driver couldn’t be charged because there just wasn’t enough evidence in the end, however there was evidence that strongly suggested the driver knew she had in fact hit someone and kept going, including eye witness accounts of her trying to clean the undercarriage of the truck and mudflaps where she dumped her gravel just a few blocks from the accident, trying to cover something up on the truck with gravel, and telling co workers she thought she hit a large animal, and acting nervous. Her coworker actually called the police on her.

Also the tire track marks showed huge swerving up to the sidewalk and over correcting.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/driver-in-fatal-hit-and-run-thought-she-hit-animal-court-documents/2073070/

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/497251.page

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