I notice there is no mention of a crosswalk.
Doesn’t justify hit and run, of course, one way or the other though.
I hit a pedestrian a few years ago. He was doing his apparently lame impersonation of a squirrel running across the street. Banged him up pretty bad and put him in the hospital for a few weeks. I did stop though. I was never held accountable in the least, though he did try to threaten to sue a couple of times but never did.
If this woman was not in a crosswalk, there really should have been no motivation for the drivers to run. Especially the second and third cars.
Very sad. I think you are correct about the cross walk. The article is written that you could infer that there was no light, no cross walk, it was dark, and she is in a wheel chair which means the field of vision from the car would have been more limited. Having said that....WTH and why didn’t the first person stop.
Also the accident took place after dark. Based on personal experience, people in wheelchairs and mobility scooters are difficult to see at night. I nearly hit a woman in a mobility scooter once. She came riding up the shoulder on my right side. I was turning right and I checked my 3:00 position, but her head was below the level of the mirror. Had my passenger not noticed her, I would have rolled right over her when I made my turn. She cruised right on past me and straight across the busy intersection, a blot of dark shadow on a dark road in a dark night. It was scary.
He couldn’t make up his mind, so you hit him? LOL
Old insurance joke for what happened on accidents.
Still, pretty bad that three people, at least, didn’t seem to have enough HughManatee to stop and give or get care...