Hit and run cowards

[bobtodrick]

Okay...I can live with the jakwagons who do a hit and run where it's limited to property damage.
But lately we've had a spat of hit and runs in Edmonton involving pedestrians where the driver leaves the scene leaving badly injured people behind...I'd have no problem jailing these people for 10 years minimum.
https://globalnews.ca/news/3916147/2...monton-police/

[Okotokian]

That's disgusting. I can only assume they were impaired.

[The Fisherman Guy]

It isn't just Edmonton where these are taking place sadly.

An elderly friend of mine was struck by a vehicle while crossing the street in Willow Park in Calgary last week. Driver left the scene without stopping. Hospitalized my friend, and disturbed him mightily.

[walking buffalo]

Happens several times a day, everyday, in Calgary.

Police are not doing much about it even when injuries are inflicted.

I was INTENTIONALY hit while in a crosswalk. Driver was stopped, then he hit the gas and swerved to make impact. I got caught up in the sideview mirror, dragged around the corner finally rolling off about 50 yards down the road.

Multiple witnesses came forward, Driver, vehicle and plate ID'ed.
Police confirmation of suspect as "known" to them.

Ambulance and emergency care. Physiotherapy and lots of pain, lost work.

I could not get CPS to press charges.

[270man]

Originally Posted by walking buffalo

Happens several times a day, everyday, in Calgary.

Police are not doing much about it even when injuries are inflicted.

I was INTENTIONALY hit while in a crosswalk. Driver was stopped, then he hit the gas and swerved to make impact. I got caught up in the sideview mirror, dragged around the corner finally rolling off about 50 yards down the road.

Multiple witnesses came forward, Driver, vehicle and plate ID'ed.
Police confirmation of suspect as "known" to them.

Ambulance and emergency care. Physiotherapy and lots of pain, lost work.

I could not get CPS to press charges.

Why didn't CPS charge him/her?

I question your statement that hit and run happens several times a day, every day in Calgary.

[rem338win]

Originally Posted by walking buffalo

Happens several times a day, everyday, in Calgary.

Police are not doing much about it even when injuries are inflicted.

I was INTENTIONALY hit while in a crosswalk. Driver was stopped, then he hit the gas and swerved to make impact. I got caught up in the sideview mirror, dragged around the corner finally rolling off about 50 yards down the road.

Multiple witnesses came forward, Driver, vehicle and plate ID'ed.
Police confirmation of suspect as "known" to them.

Ambulance and emergency care. Physiotherapy and lots of pain, lost work.

I could not get CPS to press charges.

Photoline up was done for the driver or immediately stopped near the scene?

The hard part of the job wouldve been done already, if they didnt lay charges it would be for another reason.

And Calgary doesn't have pedestrian hit and runs everyday. They are becoming more common then the past but not every day.

[58thecat]

Originally Posted by walking buffalo

Happens several times a day, everyday, in Calgary.

Police are not doing much about it even when injuries are inflicted.

I was INTENTIONALY hit while in a crosswalk. Driver was stopped, then he hit the gas and swerved to make impact. I got caught up in the sideview mirror, dragged around the corner finally rolling off about 50 yards down the road.

Multiple witnesses came forward, Driver, vehicle and plate ID'ed.
Police confirmation of suspect as "known" to them.

Ambulance and emergency care. Physiotherapy and lots of pain, lost work.

I could not get CPS to press charges.

I dought everyday but I did witness one way back when, they caught the *****, known to cops, we all had out time in court and on top of the hit and run there was other things too so the wanker got eight years.

[walking buffalo]

Originally Posted by rem338win

Photoline up was done for the driver or immediately stopped near the scene?

The hard part of the job wouldve been done already, if they didnt lay charges it would be for another reason.

And Calgary doesn't have pedestrian hit and runs everyday. They are becoming more common then the past but not every day.

In this case, the driver was not apprehended. His description from myself and witnesses matched the vehicle and plate. He was well know by police, a petty thug and drug addict.

Officer said they would file charges but that they would not pursue him. They stated that he would have to deal with the charge when attempting to renew his licence/registration....

I followed up, charges were never filed.

I believe that there was another reason, a lack of resources within CPS to follow through....

When the incident results in "Serious" or fatal injuries, you bet the police will follow through and the media will likely become aware and cover it. But when injuries are less so, the ability by enforcement to put limited resources into an investigation are just not available, and the media, and the public, will never know.


The officers on scene and in further discussions with other CPS offices (I have many friends on the force) all said the same thing. There are many such incidents EVERY day in Calgary. The lack of enforcement and resulting lack of media coverage leaves the public with the impression that this is a rare event.


The issue at hand here is the same lack of police and judicial resources that are plaguing criminal enforcement such as urban and rural theft, vandalism....

a true understanding and public recognition of the scale of these crimes is impossible under these circumstances.
We know it, can feel it, but can't prove it.

[whiteout]

Originally Posted by walking buffalo

Happens several times a day, everyday, in Calgary.

Police are not doing much about it even when injuries are inflicted.

I was INTENTIONALY hit while in a crosswalk. Driver was stopped, then he hit the gas and swerved to make impact. I got caught up in the sideview mirror, dragged around the corner finally rolling off about 50 yards down the road.

Multiple witnesses came forward, Driver, vehicle and plate ID'ed.
Police confirmation of suspect as "known" to them.

Ambulance and emergency care. Physiotherapy and lots of pain, lost work.

I could not get CPS to press charges.

So you were dragged down the road for 50m by a car, had multiple people who witnessed it and then were available to make a positive ID of the plate, vehicle and driver once they found him and nothing was done?

There is either a lot of pertinent information missing or a fair bit of exaggeration going on.