Posted on 07/12/2021 3:22:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The incident occurred along Parthenia Street about 10:25 a.m. Saturday as the person underneath tried to get out...
The driver of the truck continued west and did not stop, video released by police showed.
The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to the scene and the victim, described only as a man in his 20s, died from his injuries...
Authorities did not elaborate on what the man was doing under the manhole cover...
“The public is reminded that manholes are used for city services to access various maintenance tunnels that are located underground,” police said in the news release. “Manhole covers should not be disturbed or moved due to their weight and could cause serious injury or death.”
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
Intentional hit-and-run? Or maybe not even aware someone popped up from a manhole?
That is NOT a Hit and Run accident, the Presstitute that wrote that should be FIRED!. All you see is a manhole cover off a little, Darwin Wins.
That’s no hit and run. The doofus got knocked off the ladder he was on and died. Paging Charles Darwin....Charles Darwin to the White courtesy phone, please....
Hard to blame driver - not normal for someone to be coming out from
closed manhole. Underground homeless camp?
GMTA
BS, from the video this is NOT hit-and-run. The cover was ajar at best, ran over. Driver may have noted the cover bounced up but ignoring that and driving on is not a crime.
Did the driver even know there was person involved.
Or just thought he hit a loose manhole cover.
No way he knew he killed someone.
Probably drive away cussing the highway department for crappy roads, unaware a human was involved.
Even if he stopped to look at his truck and the road, the victim is in the hole, unseen. Drive off.
Not guilty
Watch the video; you'll go with the latter. (There's no sign of a guy coming out of the manhole except that the cover is raised a couple of inches just before the truck passes over it.)
No way he knew he killed someone.
Probably knows it by now. Hopefully in an attnys office
Vagrant CHUD hit and run
That would be my question.
You pop up in the middle of the road and I cant see you I am going to assume I hit a bit of trash not a person.
I’m sorry, I don’t think I would have stopped either. It’s not as if the guy was visibly popping up.
“A reward of up to $50,000 is available to anyone who provides information leading to the driver’s identification, apprehension and conviction.
“Anyone who may have witnessed or has additional information on the incident can call Officer Takishita at 818-644-8116 or Detective Buenaventura at 818-644-8035.”
the carnival game “whack a mole” comes to mind in this situation...
If we can guess, the Soros owned DA will argue; “it’s A MANhole cover. The defendant should have known a man was there!”
This is the reason normal people should not try to avoid jury duty.
This poor driver is going to be put on trial and have their life ruined because of a nitwit and a corrupt legal system.
There is no flipping way that was in any way, shape or form a hit-and-run.
Jerks.
This country is being run by JERKS.
Exactly. The driver looking in rear view mirrors would see nothing bu a manhole cover flying up. They would not see a body at all, as we can see by the video.
Video appears to be handheld such as a cell phone.
Why were they recording?
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