Wtf? Drivers suck

[Chas_svo]

This is about 1/4 mile from my house, and on one of the main entrances to my subdivision. People are crazy for walking, jogging, and biking down that narrow road, even in the daylight, but when it's dark?

http://wfaa.mlnwap.com/News/Local%20News

[white88]

Linky no worky

[KBScobravert]

http://www.wfaa.com/news/crime/Man-fatally-struck-by-car-in-Haslet-159889685.html

[KBScobravert]

Willow Springs, at 5:45? Willow Springs lined with trees and very dark, at 5:45? Whaaaat? Probably no reflective clothing either.

He does not deserve to die but darwin works these ways sometimes.

Driver needs to rot in hell for not stopping.

[white88]

damn that's messed up, I hope they catch the driver.

[ceyko]

Yeah, just like the motorcycle riders - should give yourself every advantage. When I run in low light/dark times - reflective belt, flashlight on and a blinky light sometimes.

[Chas_svo]

The driver also crossed over and hit him at the far edge of the road. Runner was not using common sense, but it's not like he was running in the road. Senseless death, and most likely by a drunk, as they have his/her vehicle but still no driver. Likely trying to make sure the alcohol gets out of his/her system. Not sure where they could be coming from by the direction they were coming, unless they dropped someone off, and were trying to get home.

[Captain Crawfish]

ive seen a guy driving his bicycle against 55mph traffic off 1382 cars going by inches from him yet he kept in the street. dumb shit like that is why people get killed. lots of places to jog besides the street.

[Zfan]

Vehicle was located in a Ft. Worth body shop for repairs....someone is in trouble

[sosoe]

Vehicle was located in a Ft. Worth body shop for repairs....someone is in trouble

Yup, They located that vehicle quick.
Sucks people would run someone over and keep on going like if they ran over shit on the ground, bastards.

[ceyko]

The article does not seem to work right now, but I know a lot of people when drinking...and having a wreck of any kind - will do whatever it takes to not get the DUI. They feel it is better to be nailed for anything else after the fact than DUI.

[mikec]

Which carries a lesser penalty, intoxication manslaughter, or manslaughter?

[Matt]

seems like they get more years if they are intoxicated

[Chas_svo]

I never watch the news, so I missed this. They found the guy.

http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/06/27/4063630/suspect-in-fatal-hit-and-run-of.html

A suspect in the hit-and-run death of a Haslet man was found dead this afternoon in a garage behind a Duncanville home, reports said.
Terry Knight, 45, apparently hanged himself, Duncanville police said.
Knight was the suspect in the fatal hit-and-run of Walter Hopkins, 37, of Haslet, a source told the Star-Telegram on Wednesday.
Hopkins's body was found early on June 21 in the 13800 block of Willow Springs Road near Haslet in far north Tarrant County. Investigators believe that he had been jogging when he was hit by a Ford Ranger whose driver then fled the scene.
Knight later took the damaged pickup to a Fort Worth body shop, saying that he had struck a dog and needed the truck fixed as soon as possible, according to a search warrant affidavit.
Authorities, however, saw an imprint of what appeared to be a person's head and shoulders on the vehicle hood, the affidavit says.
Tarrant County sheriff's spokesman Terry Grisham said Monday that no arrests had been made in connection with the death of Hopkins.
The vehicle belonged to Knight, according to the affidavit.
Investigators contacted Knight at his residence in the 200 block of McMurry Avenue in Duncanville. His body was found at that address on Wednesday.
"We have identified the registered owner of the vehicle," Grisham said Monday. "We've contacted him and sought his cooperation, and he has declined to cooperate with us and referred us to an attorney's office."
According to the search warrant affidavit, released Monday afternoon by the Sheriff's Department, a witness reported seeing a man who appeared lost driving a damaged blue or purple Ford Ranger about a half-mile away from the collision site.
That afternoon, a Fort Worth police detective notified the Sheriff's Department after finding a damaged blue Ford Ranger at the Five Star Ford collision center, 5250 Riverside Drive in Fort Worth.
Investigators found that the truck had pieces missing from the grill that were consistent with evidence found at the collision site, the affidavit says.
Employees told investigators that the man who had dropped off the pickup said "that he had hit a dog and needed the truck as soon as possible."
He "advised he did not want to claim the damage on insurance but wanted to pay cash," the affidavit says.
Workers described the man as nervous and covered in sweat.
The affidavit says that investigators tried to talk to the man that evening.The man said he wanted to cooperate but had been told by his attorney not to discuss the incident with police, the affidavit says.

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/06...#storylink=cpy

[CJ]

Maybe you should have stopped after you hit someone you stupid motherfucker...