Posted on 08/31/2014 1:12:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A 58-year-old man who collided with an Oakland police patrol car Saturday afternoon near Lake Merritt is in critical condition, according to police.
The collision happened around 1:30 p.m. when the patrol car traveling at slow speeds south on Third Avenue made a turn to East 12th Street, police said.
The pedestrian, an Oakland resident, was transported to a hospital for treatment, according to police.
The officer driving the car was the lone occupant and responding to a call for service, police said.
Police have not determined if the pedestrian was on the crosswalk at the time of the collision.
Anyone with information on the collision is asked to call the Oakland Police Department's Traffic Investigation Unit at (510) 777-8570.
When does the rioting start?
Did he jump in front of the patrol car? If not, then the police car hit him. Hey NBC, it's okay to use plain English when describing a pedestrian being hit by a car.
Was the vic black? Was the cop white?
I thought California had unconditional, universal pedestrian right-of-way everywhere.
That’s a pretty safe area in the daytime.
“Hey NBC,it’s okay to use plain English when describing a pedestrian being hit by a car.”
Their lawyers advised against it.
A 58-year-old man who collided with an Oakland police patrol car
People do not collide with moving cars; it's the other way around. Who is and isn't guilty is determined on case by case basis. But there is no need to contort the language; it only makes the police look bad.
The collision happened around 1:30 p.m. when the patrol car traveling at slow speeds south on Third Avenue made a turn to East 12th Street, police said.
Failing to yield to pedestrians, probably. The LEO was not looking around, but fiddled with the radio or tried to find a house number.
Police have not determined if the pedestrian was on the crosswalk at the time of the collision.
What, pray tell, could be the reason why they haven't determined this simple detail? A slow moving car couldn't throw the victim 100 feet away; since he is alive, he fell within a couple feet from the place where he was hit. Was it a sudden, convenient case of momentary distraction that overcame all the officers and paramedics and firemen who responded? The location of the incident is one of the most essential facts to be recorded - far more important than noticing how many other people were in the cop's car, or whether the cop was responding to a call.
Google Maps shows that pedestrian crossings are present along 3rd Avenue. Also, a car that travels south on 3rd has to stop at this stop sign. Was the LEO above that simple requirement? Otherwise the road looks simple, and there are no obstructions. The LEO could strike a pedestrian only if he didn't pay attention to driving.
The other alternative would seem to be that the police car was on the sidewalk at the time of the collision.
Any chance the police car dashboard cam was turned on to record whether the car stopped at the stop sign and the collision with the pedestrian?
and what is the national implication of a pedestrian being struck by a police car??? Was it a white racist officer intentionally running down an elderly, unarmed, citizen???
elderly, unarmed BLACK citizen (fixed it)
Well, if the car was black and white we have a real conundrum.
...who was going to start college next week.
The police vehicle itself was white.
Que the rioters.
They are sending the top IRS IT guys to get the recordings.
Don’t text and drive.
This is racism!
The press is favoring the racist police!
Collided?
Seriously?
They haven’t determined if the pedestrian was on the crosswalk? Do they think it’s possible the cop car was up on the curb?
It’s obviously his fault.
One should know better than to collide with a police car.
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