Hit and runs

[martinw-48]

It seems to me that these are becoming more prevalent.
Is it because of population increase or the increase in a lack of care or empathy in society as a whole.
I understand that some here believe that I don't care or have empathy for others but I do just not those that are hugely rich or rampant right wingers.
It will be hard for some here to believe that a large amount of community car users ask for me to drive them to their appointments because I'm the driver they like most.

[martinw-48]

Me a politician.
Wouldn't that be funny

[wide-world-of-stamps]

Way too honest 😄

[martinw-48]

No, I'm a compusive liar.
See I did it again

[springyzone]

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@martinw-48 wrote:
the4masters, that's the part I never understand either.
Obviously it's bad for them if they're say drunk but if you stop and assist that goes in your favour.
A little girl in Melbourne that suffered a hit and run is related to my girlfriend.
Thankfully the woman who perpetrated the offence handed herself in after some time

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I think these days there is more chance of a hit and run driver being traced through paint chip matching, CCTV and that sort of thing. The forensics we have now just weren't available decades ago.

But even when someone hands themselves in later, they can just say they panicked or were scared, they will probably not admit they were high on drugs or drunk.

It doesn't necessarily go well if you stop and assist. I've told the tale before but I have a friend whose friend, a single man in his late 50s I think, was involved in an accident and he stopped to help. The person in the other car was injured but made a full recovery. The man who caused the accident though had deteriorating eyesight and had recently been told to stop driving. But he was in the country and on his way to a medical appointment and made a stupid decision to drive himself.

He got 9 months jail, even though he had an elderly mother who relied on him on the farm. Apparently the judge at his sentencing commended him on his attitude, and this was a man with a record of community service, no prior records at all. He was a model prisoner but all the same, didn't get one day off for good behaviour.

I'm not actually sure some of the druggies who drive get that long a sentence, but even if someone stops, if they killed someone and know they were seriously at fault, they could be looking down the barrel of a couple of years or more in prison, so they may think it is worth the risk to run.

[davidc4430]

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@martinw-48 wrote:
No, I'm a compusive liar.
See I did it again

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but if you were a compulsive liar wouldnt you say i dont tell lies?

[icyfroth]

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@davidc4430 wrote:

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@martinw-48 wrote:
No, I'm a compusive liar.
See I did it again

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but if you were a compulsive liar wouldnt you say i dont tell lies?

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[davidc4430]

running from a problem is nothing new, its built into our DNA

but as to hit and runs being on the increase well the world is changing 

we now have places serving booze 24/7

so we have more drunks driving and more drunks stummbling home often in the roads.

how many times have read accident reports in the news about some idiot deciding to go for a nap on a road!

or just plain walking onto a road as a car passes and get 'clipped' possibly with the driver not even knowing.

ever case has a story.

cant just lump em all together and say drivers fault.

maybe its a subject that needs a study, how many were drunk drivers, how many were drunk padestrians'

you can make endless sub catagories.

its the ones who knowingly hit someone and drive away when they are completely ok to drive but just run to avoid facing up that i dont get.

we had a case in south australia a few years ago, a man driving a 4 wheel drive hits and kills a cyclist on a country road and drives off.

then we discover this driver is a high profile lawyer who knows the law very well and is comming from a luncheon where he consumes some booze, prolly enough to be over the limit.

he abscons the scene and hides long enough for the booze to be out of his system before fronting up to a police station and handing himself in.

text book defence by a very learned criminal.

he got off with a fine and a 'drive more carefully in future' warning.

the cyclist had a wife and very young children, do you think they felt justice was served?

[martinw-48]

It's getting worse for sure

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-19/cyclist-hit-and-run-crime-townsville/11979378?utm_source=abc_...

[martinw-48]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-21/mans-body-found-on-road-in-port-augusta/11986888?utm_source=a...

Second in a week for Port Augusta

[davidc4430]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-24/one-person-at-centre-of-two-deaths-geoffrey-sleba/11866504