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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...F077.DTL&tsp=1
Body lies by side of I-880 more than 5 hours before being found Marisa Lagos, Chronicle Staff Writer Monday, January 14, 2008 SAN LEANDRO - A body found on Interstate 880 in San Leandro today was that of a man apparently struck and killed several hours earlier as he tried to cross the freeway after his car got a flat tire, authorities said. The 28-year-old Livermore man was hit by a driver who realized she had run over something but did not know it was a person, the California Highway Patrol said. snippage "She didn't realize what she'd hit," he said. "Then this morning after we found the body, we looked through incidents from last night in the area and matched up the color of her car (to evidence left at the scene)," Johnson said. It does not appear the woman committed a crime, he said. ---------------------------------- I call bull****. How can you hit and kill a man who is trying to cross a road and claim you never even saw him? "Didn't expect to see someone there", sure. "Couldn't stop in time", sad but predictable. "Hit 'something' in the road but don't know what it was"-- umm, no. Lucky for her, the cops are fantastic at bending over backwards to preserve an insane way of life. They are _much_ better at looking out for the interests of cars than they are at looking out for the interests of people. Perhaps the cars will outlive us. Chalo |
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Gooserider wrote:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...1/14/MNCJUF077... Even if she didn't think she hit a person(which is ludicrous), the impact from hitting a man-sized object is enough to make most people stop to check damage. Accoring to the article, she not only stopped, but she called the cops to report an object in the road. A CHP officer showed up, but he didn't see the dead guy so he let her drive home. But trying to cross a freeway on foot is pretty dangerous. Especially in CA where folks drive 85mph whenever they're not stuck in traffic. I see lots of places even in cities where you'd have to walk a few miles to go just across the freeway. Out in the far-flung 'burbs and countryside, I've seen places where walking to the nearest approved crossing and back to the other side from where you were could be more than 10 miles. Such situations seem more than a little bit skewed to the convenience of freeway drivers. Chalo |
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miles to go just across the freeway. Out in the far-flung 'burbs and
countryside, I've seen places where walking to the nearest approved crossing and back to the other side from where you were could be more than 10 miles. Such situations seem more than a little bit skewed to the convenience of freeway drivers. I once attended a conference in Orlando, across the freeway from the rest of town, with the nearest crossing five miles away. I was told that a pedestrian overpass had been proposed, but the taxi companies had defeated it. -- mac the naïf |
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On Jan 17, 12:53 pm, Chalo wrote:
I see lots of places even in cities where you'd have to walk a few miles to go just across the freeway. Out in the far-flung 'burbs and countryside, I've seen places where walking to the nearest approved crossing and back to the other side from where you were could be more than 10 miles. Such situations seem more than a little bit skewed to the convenience of freeway drivers. Agreed. And it can be worse. I live just off a busy arterial (4 lanes plus center turn lane). There's a pedestrian crossing about 1/4 mile to the east. But the nest one to the west is two miles away. Tons of shopping plazas and stores along there, but zero pedestrian facilities. And when it was proposed to add some islands to the center turn lane (for, among other things, a safe "halfway" point for pedestrians) people said "Anyone who wants to cross that street is crazy." - Frank Krygowski |
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On Jan 14, 3:42 pm, Chalo wrote:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...1/14/MNCJUF077... Body lies by side of I-880 more than 5 hours before being found Marisa Lagos, Chronicle Staff Writer Monday, January 14, 2008 SAN LEANDRO - A body found on Interstate 880 in San Leandro today was that of a man apparently struck and killed several hours earlier as he tried to cross the freeway after his car got a flat tire, authorities said. The 28-year-old Livermore man was hit by a driver who realized she had run over something but did not know it was a person, the California Highway Patrol said. snippage "She didn't realize what she'd hit," he said. "Then this morning after we found the body, we looked through incidents from last night in the area and matched up the color of her car (to evidence left at the scene)," Johnson said. It does not appear the woman committed a crime, he said. ---------------------------------- I call bull****. How can you hit and kill a man who is trying to cross a road and claim you never even saw him? "Didn't expect to see someone there", sure. "Couldn't stop in time", sad but predictable. "Hit 'something' in the road but don't know what it was"-- umm, no. I hit a rabbit coming back from Loretta Lynn's ranch and if I hadn't have seen it dart out, I'd have swore it was a seal-a-mealed quart of soup. Such a nasty pop as the skin burst and the insides met the road. Maybe hitting a person if you don't see them only feels like you ran over a trash can full of restaurant leavings--an honest mistake. ;-) |
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