Posted on 09/07/2018 12:54:11 PM PDT by bgill
Police have identified a woman killed when she tried to run across an I-35 frontage road in high heels in an alleged hit-and-run crash in Downtown Austin. According to the arrest affidavit, 21-year-old Felipe Hernandez is charged with failure to stop and render aid, a third-degree felony...A responding officer to the collision was told by the victim's sister that they were walking back from the bar Terminal 6 when a man asked if the woman could run fast in heels. The woman said she could, and before her sister could stop her, she ran across the road and almost made it across before she was hit by an SUV and dragged 15 yards,
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About 30 years ago, a guy broke down in the middle lane of I 71 in Cincinnati downtown, late rush hour. I was walking on a pedestrian bridge over the highway and stopped to watch.
Guy gets out of car and goes to his trunk and starts rooting around! A crowd gathered with me-all of us yelling for him to get away from the car.
He kept it up for 15 minutes or so and then opened the hood and started working!
About five minutes later, a Crown Vic hit the ass end of his little Toyota at 65 mph.
It looked like a toy with all the balls on strings that you drop a ball on one end and the one on the other carries the inertia. The Ford basically came to a stop and that Toyota flew 40 yards down the freeway. The guy flew another 20 or 30 yards from there.
He didn’t get up.
Not sure if he died but the visual has hung with me all these years.
That will be a comfort at the funeral.
Had the guy already paid?
A "here, hold muh beer" moment.
If she had made it, this would have been a night to remember.
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