Thread: Increase in Hit and Run Accidents

I have noticed a large increase in the amount of hit and run accidents in various areas of Miami. Many of these accidents are minor but some of them have resulted in injury or death. It seems to me that when the number of illegals increases, so does the number of hit and runs.
Has anyone else noticed the same trend in their cities?

Well we have had people hit crossing the road.

Second pedestrian in a week struck, killed

(http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/news ... S1.article)

December 22, 2006

By DAN MORAN DMORAN@SCN1.COM

WAUKEGAN -- For the third time in the past month and the second time in a week, a pedestrian has been struck and killed by a vehicle while crossing a city street.

Police report 24-year-old Jesenia Tellez was running across South Lewis Avenue about 20 feet north of the intersection at Lloyd Avenue on Saturday night when she was hit by a northbound 2005 Ford Taurus.

Tellez was transported from the scene to Vista East Medical Center following the 7:40 p.m. accident, then was transferred to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, where she reportedly died from her injuries Tuesday afternoon.

Waukegan Police Cmdr. Wayne Walles said Thursday that while the investigation into the incident was ongoing, there were no preliminary indications that speed or intoxication were a factor. No charges have been filed against the driver, a 37-year-old Waukegan woman.

Saturday's accident was the third between a pedestrian and a vehicle since Nov. 25, when 57-year-old Iola Stanley was run over at Jackson and Edwards streets by a van driven by a North Chicago man who allegedly was drunk at the time.

Police reported that Stanley was last seen walking to a home on nearby Myrtle Street around 1 a.m. and might have been down in the roadway when she was struck by the van. The driver, 34-year-old David Collins of North Chicago, was arrested and charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving injury or death, driving under the influence and driving on a suspended license.

In the second incident, which took place on the afternoon of Dec. 15, 80-year-old Felix Gomez was struck by a car while walking across North Jackson Street near Fairfield Court. No charges were filed against the driver, a 23-year-old Waukegan woman, who suffered minor injuries in the accident.

Funeral services for Tellez. who leaves behind a husband and daughter, are scheduled for Saturday at Waukegan's Holy Family Parish, where the Rev. Gary Graf said services were also held for Gomez.

"It has been a terrible week," said Graf, adding that he was informed last weekend that two other people with ties to the parish, Almeida Alvarado and Israel Rosas, were murdered in Mexico.

Aboslutely! Here in San Diego, it has become epidemic. Every other day on the news a hit & run accident is reported, and as expected from the PC dominated, illegal alien loving, Mexico beholden San Diego newspapers, TV and radio stations, whenever they catch the culprits, which they rarely do, they always seem to omit the perpatrator, unless they're white of course.

Also we have a huge problem with things falling off vehicles. Whenever you drive around and listen to a traffic report, it's always 'there's a refrigerator in the fast lane of highway x' or a couch or a ladder or a sheet of plywood or a wheelbarrow or a lawnmower, etc. I don't ever remember so much crap being dropped off trucks and cars in the past, only since the masses of illegals have invaded the region. And of course, they never bother to pick the stuff up, they just leave it. I mean how hard can it be to strap things down properly, I can't believe how stupid these people are. But then again, they act as if they were still in Mexico, where laws and safety don't matter, after all who cares if some dumb gringo gets killed, it ain't their problem.

Yes it's definately on the increase. Never in my life have I heard so many who just run. I mean leave the vehicle and run away.

Reptile09 thanks for mentioning things falling off vehicles. That is an epidemic here as well. They will stop and pick things up if its new stuff they got for home renovation work. I never laughed as hard as I did following one of them from the Home Depot. They had wood, dry wall compound and other things in the pick up truck and used a metal grill at the end of it to attempt to keep the stuff in the back. The light turned and I could visualize was how the load would fly off the truck when the driver accelerated. That was exactly what happened. Thank goodness the car behind him lane could see it coming as he did not move his car from where he was stopped and therefore avoided being hit. I have also see them try to get certain items that fell off a truck from I 95.
Most of the time you see ladders on the highway, but I have also seen chairs, sofa cushions, sofas, wood, TV, and matresses.
We actually had a person die in a car accident when an item fell off a truck and hit the vehicle behind it blocking the driver's view. The guys in the truck didn't even stop.