Posted on 05/19/2007 12:08:10 PM PDT by csvset
OAKLAND — In what police believe was a successful suicide, a 33-year-old man died early Friday from injuries sustained after deliberately running into traffic at least three times.
He was hit by three different vehicles in the 2500 block of East 27th Street shortly before midnight Thursday. None of the drivers stopped and waited for police, investigations said.
The man was identified as Shangle Mei of Oakland, said a spokesman from the Alameda County Coroner's Office.
Police said Mei's first attempt was unsuccessful when the driver of the vehicle stopped before striking him. The driver got out of the car and told him to be "careful" before driving off, a witness told police. Moments later, Mei ran into the street again and was hit by a car and pulled under the wheels. That driver pulled Mei out, but left the scene.
A short time later, Mei was hit by a third vehicle when he ran in front of it. That car also did not stop, police said.
Now, badly injured Mei once again ran in front of a fourth vehicle, which also hit him and left the scene without stopping, witnesses told police.
Mei was taken to Highland Hospital in Oakland, where he died from injuries early Friday.
Anyone with information should call police at 238-3156.
I bet if he had been in Las Vegas it wouldn’t have taken him three tries.
“And what kind of drivers are there in California?....three people hit this guy and they all fled.”
Illegals ;-)
Umm, the driver of the first car to hit him DID stop, and pulled the guy out from under the car before driving away. We weren’t there, but if he was yelling crazily at this driver after being pulled out, it probably made sense to get back in the car and keep going, and we don’t know that this driver didn’t call police from his cell (though in this litigious society, he probably would have reported witnessing the event, instead of admitting he’d actually hit the guy). When you’re facing the very real possibility of being sued into bankruptcy by somebody who deliberately dove in front of your car, you might well make the same choice.
There is a huge amount of insurance fraud involving deliberately staged “accidents”, with organized rings operating, serving as witnesses for each other to confirm a version of events that results in the innocent driver being held responsible, and even if with doctors participating in the scam by providing false confirmation of injuries and long-lasting symptoms, and sometimes even police officers. Most of these “accidents” involve another vehicle, but some involve pedestrian fraudsters. Good luck proving you weren’t in the wrong, if you’ve been targeted by one of these gangs.
http://www.fldfs.com/pressoffice/ViewConsumerAlert.asp?ID=2089
http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2004/apr/apr21b_04.html
Prayers for that poor soul.
“But this was clearly a busy street”
Not. It’s a in a res area - http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=address&addtohistory=&address=2500%20E%2027th%20St&city=Oakland&state=CA&zipcode=94601%2d1306&country=US&geodiff=1
Midnight - not a main drag - granted not the best neighborhood in Oakland and not the worst. A problem drug area is about 10 blocks north.
I wasn’t talking about the FIRST guy that hit him, because the guy was obviously still ambulatory after that one. I’m talking about the other THREE, including the one who hit him, and he didn’t get up.
Actually the first one managed not to hit him, and stopped and got out and talked to him. The second one hit him, stopped, and pulled him out from under the car. The subsequent two who hit him didn’t stop. Who knows what the scene was. Maybe it was clear from the behavior of bystanders that this wasn’t a normal case of “you just hit this guy”. Also may have been the sort of neighborhood where stopping at the scene of an accident at midnight is taking your own life in your hands. Sounds like there were a number of witnesses, so it’s not like these drivers drove off leaving him abandoned — if it was clear that bystanders were paying attention and calling 911 on cell phones, there’s nothing more the drivers really could have done to help him. These situations can get explosive in a hurry, especially if the guy you hit has gangbanger pals nearby.
It’s amazing what one highly motivated person is capable of doing. If at first you don’t succeed...
People that love mankind are very nasty to people.
It's nice to see that, as a self-described conservative, you have particular respect for our laws and basic decency.
More wishywashy language -- its like saying the "alleged" suicide. Are they waiting for him to come back to life before deciding it was a success?
“He was able to get up and run into traffic after being pulled out from under a car? wow. And what kind of drivers are there in California?”
That is the real question. What the heck is wrong with people in that state. I doubt there is another place in the country where you’d see 75(!) percent of drivers run off like that. Amazing. Perhaps two were illegals without licenses.
You are not talking about California, you are talking about the bay area, in this case, Oakland. Many of us in North Eastern California don't consider the Bay Area and southern Cal as part of the same state. :) Altho, there are parts of Southern California that are quite red, Orange county for one.
As my First Aid/CPR instructor once said, "Just because you see folks on cell phones, it doesn't mean they're calling 911. More likely, they're calling friends saying, "You're not going to believe what I'm seeing!!"."
The damn thing just kept darting down into oncoming traffic. And somehow managed to not get hit for about 30 seconds before it disappeared.
I've never seen a suicidal bird before. And that is the only conclusion I can reach having watched it.
Very true. But if I found myself in a situation where somebody had just dove in front of my car, obviously deliberately, and there were people with cell phones in sight, and my assessment of the situation (type of neighborhood, time of night, etc.) was that I was more likely to get mugged if I stopped and got out of the car, than to have any positive effect on the ultimate outcome for the diver, I’d realistically probably keep driving, and call police from my cell as soon as I got to a location where I felt safe stopping.
“They could clearly NOT have been in the wrong, if he ran out in front of them.”
Yes, true. But in this age of msm attacks, over-eager prosecutors and rampant political correctness (especially, if the victim belonged to any minority group whatsoever), more and more folks are just plain scared of what the system will do to them, even if they are blameless. You would stop for such a victim, and I would stop for such a victim, but we would do so at greater risk to ourselves than used to be.
I guess theoretically at least a couple of those drivers could still be charged with a hit-and-run.
I'd rather be able to LIVE with myself after such an event. I couldn't drive away and forget about it.
If the neighborhood didn't look too swell, I'd still need to stop and see if the person was all right. THEN I'd get on the phone and call 911 immediately, and if I thought I were in danger, I'd just tell the operator that I felt as though I were in danger from the surroundings, and to have a police officer come immediately, even if an ambulance couldn't get there for a while. Then if I were really feeling threatened, I'd drive somewhere else, while STILL on the phone will 911, telling them what I was doing, so there would be an audio record of the proceedings.
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