Hit And Runs
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bondink at 09.8.10 - 9:12 am
i am starting this thread to post "HIt and Run" news and reports. to keep each other up to date and informed on past cases as well as, and unfortunately, present and future cases.
if you were in a "hit and Run" please post here and/or email me at
thesarabond [at] gmail.com
we can help you follow up on your case and do our best to get some justice!
thanks!
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something really fucked up:
so, Birdman's hit and run driver gets 3 years probation, 6 months community service yet still keeps her driver's license.
a friend of mine in jersey, got a DUI and put her car into a pole. she had her license taken away for a year and has to pay $1000 every year after to get it back for 3 years.
she was over 21. she didn't hit a living thing. she didn't leave anyone for dead. yet her license was taken away. and Birdman's bitch..... she will be back on the road before the Holiday season.
bondink09.8.10 - 12:19 pm
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take this quick survey bout hit and runs. it will help us help everyone.
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bondink09.8.10 - 12:22 pm
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It's worse than that, Mahdavi only got 3 months' (90 days) community service.
Rach Stevo responding to a
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09.8.10 - 2:31 pm
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Anson, i am so sorry this happened to you. i have been following up and helping cyclists in LA that have been victims of hit and runs. i can introduce you to a fellow lawyer. when you feel up to it, please email me. i can also give you my number.
thesarabond@gmail.com
i wish you a full recovery..... <3
much love from a fellow rida <3
bondink responding to a
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09.13.10 - 7:29 pm
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At the end of the piece it reports that alcohol was a factor--which explains a lot, but I again cringe at the officer's use of the passive phrasing that she, as if mysteriously and/or innocently, simply "lost control of her vehicle." It's as if her vehicle is some undomesticated wild beast that has tendencies to act out in uncontrollable rage that she could no way have had control over. No--she was just drunk and had insufficient capabilities to drive a 2000 lb vehicle and crashed it into a whole bunch of shit--including a pedestrian. Jeez. She'll be back on the road soon enough.
dudeonabike responding to a
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09.14.10 - 11:02 am
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dudeonabike,
Box put in words what I had thought privately for a long time - "there are no accidents." Maybe it's not 100% true - even people who get behind the wheel, or step on the pedals, with the best of intentions, pay attention, and are not tired, distracted, or drunk, will have small lapses that can lead to tragedy. But, mostly, there are no accidents. If you get behind the wheel drunk and then "lose control of your vehicle", that's not accidental loss of control because you got behind the wheel in a state where you weren't prepared to control it.
Alex Thompson responding to a
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09.14.10 - 11:06 am
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The language that surrounds automobile deaths is often very dismissive of the seriousness of the situation, and tries to absolve responsibility for actions. I've been doing a lot of reading on the history of car culture, and there was in fact a time when newspapers quite openly ranted about the demonic presence of cars on the road and the insane actions of drivers killing people in the streets.
Starting in the 20's and 30's car companies started to soften this media image "problem", by exercising their advertising revenue influence to effect editorial, and the auto industry started creating their own standards for how the news should report car crashes. Once car culture sunk in as the norm, the media and the police settled into this new line of thinking without really questioning it.
As Tam Vanderbilt points out in "Traffic", news coverage of traffic conditions is often treated like the weather, and often reported alongside it, as though it was an act of God and our climate that there are too many cars and sometimes they kill people.
Something I have tried to get away from is every using the term "accident". Nearly all crashes are the result of serious negligence of one or more parties, or in rare cases they can even be acts of rage. I always say crashes or incident now, especially when cause or fault is not yet clear, which is hard to do, because the word accident is so ingrained into us. Language is powerful and it matters. If we want to change the culture we also have to change the words we use. When we say an accident it makes it sound like, whoops just had a boo boo, just like term oil spill didn't quite do justice to the severity of the BP disaster.
GarySe7en responding to a
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09.14.10 - 11:18 am
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