Community | January 09, 2010 | 4 comments

Police: Ex-NYPD chief hit pregnant lady, drove away

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A former New York City police commissioner has been accused of backing his SUV into a pregnant woman, then driving away.
Police say Howard Safir bumped the woman with his Cadillac Friday afternoon in Manhattan.

She was treated for a bruised shoulder, but wasn't seriously hurt.

Police detectives decided not to press charges.

They say Safir didn't know he'd hit someone.

The victim tells a different story.

Joanne Valarezo tells The New York Times that both she and a passenger in the SUV yelled at the driver for being careless before he drove away.

She says she didn't know who he was until informed by a reporter.

Safir was police commissioner from 1996 to 2000.

Calls to his homes in New York and Maryland weren't immediately returned.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-01-09-nypd-chief-case_N.htm?csp=34&...
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