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Ian Hibell, cyclist who pedalled world, killed by hit-and-run driver
A cyclist who pedalled the world for more than 40 years, braving raging rivers, soldier ants, a lion and enjoying the hospitality of an Eskimo princess, has been killed by a hit-and-run driver in Greece.
Ian Hibell, 74, was a legendary figure in the world of long-distance cycle touring setting several records and pedalling the equivalent of ten times around the Equator.
He died on the Athens to Salonika highway on August 23, when he was struck by a car apparently involved in a race with another motorist. The driver left the scene but was arrested two days later and charged with causing death by dangerous driving. A cyclist who pedalled the world for more than 40 years, braving raging rivers, soldier ants, a lion and enjoying the hospitality of a... more -
Gran dies after hit and run mobility scooter crash
A GRANDMOTHER has died after being involved in a hit and run accident with a mobility scooter.
The 84-year-old suffered a broken hip in the incident, which happened as she was crossing a road in Sunderland.
It is thought the woman riding the electric-powered buggy said she was going to call for an ambulance to help the stricken victim but fled the scene. A GRANDMOTHER has died after being involved in a hit and run accident with a mobility scooter. ... more -
Good Samaritan Finds Out Dying Accident Victim Is His Wife
An unthinkable tragedy has hit a British man, after he decided to stop and help an accident victim who had been run over by a car. James Peters was on his way to pick up his wife from a bus stop in Surrey, England Friday, because he didn't want her to walk home.
But when he came upon an accident scene where someone was hit and badly injured, he felt compelled to stop and offer what help he could. He'd been there for almost 10 minutes before another Good Samaritan asked him to hang on to the victim's handbag.
And that's when the world he knew ended in a shocking realization: Peters recognized the purse as the one belonging to his wife and came to the agonizing discovery that she was the accident victim lying critically wounded in the road.
Susan Peters had decided to walk from the stop where her spouse was going to pick her up, and was hit by a car as she made her way home. By sheer coincidence, her husband passed by the scene moments later and stopped to help.
But there was nothing anyone could do. His wife was airlifted to a local hospital but succumbed to her injuries.
Peters admits he's devastated by the loss of what he calls the perfect wife and notes she was only five minutes from home when the accident took place. She leaves behind three sons and a 90-year-old mother.
To add to this incredible tragedy, Peters and his lifemate had spent some of their final days together celebrating a personal milestone. Last Wednesday, they marked their 40th anniversary.
A 25-year-old has been charged in the accident. An unthinkable tragedy has hit a British man, after he decided to stop and help an accident victim who had been run over by a car. Jam... more -
New officer struck down
A former Marine who returned home after two tours in Iraq to serve his community as a Hopkinton police officer was killed minutes after his shift ended early yesterday by an alleged drunken driver on Route 202/9.
Powers, 24, of Hillsborough, was riding home on his 2004 Harley-Davidson motorcycle when he was hit from behind at about 1:24 a.m. by a 1992 BMW sedan driven by Jeffrey Dennis, 22, of Henniker, authorities allege. Powers was thrown from his motorcycle into the roadway, where seconds later an oncoming motorist struck him again. He died at the scene.
Dennis abandoned his car on the side of the road -- with his passenger still sitting inside -- and ran into the woods where he was taken into custody about six hours later after an intensive foot and air search by local and state police using dogs and a helicopter, Merrimack County Attorney Daniel I. St. Hilaire alleged.
Wearing leg manacles, camouflage cargo shorts and a T-shirt, Dennis shuffled into Concord District Court in stocking feet where he was arraigned on two negligent homicide charges and one count each of aggravated driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of a collision. A former Marine who returned home after two tours in Iraq to serve his community as a Hopkinton police officer was killed minutes afte... more -
Hit-and-run duo sentenced to life in prison
Two elderly women were sentenced to life in prison without parole Tuesday for murdering two indigent men to collect insurance policies taken out on their lives.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Wesley sentenced 77-year-old Helen Golay and 75-year-old Olga Rutterschmidt to two consecutive life terms each.
In April, the women were convicted of a scheme in which they befriended homeless men, took out insurance policies on them and then killed them in murders staged to look like hit-and-run auto accidents. Prosecutors say the women collected $2.8 million before the scheme was uncovered.
The judge denounced the women, saying the men needed only food, water and shelter.
"They needed a helping hand. They thought they were getting this from you," Wesley said. "Instead these unfortunate men were sacrificed on your altar of greed."
The judge said that although there is no possibility of parole, a probation report had been done on the women, in which a "probation officer indicates they have no conscience and are a serious threat to the community."
Both women were convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to murder for financial gain in the 1999 death of Paul Vados, 73, and the 2005 death of Kenneth McDavid, 50.
Both men were struck by cars in dark alleys. Police linked the cases when a detective investigating one overheard a colleague describe a similar case.
Relatives of the victims spoke briefly, saying they had lost touch with the two men and then learned they had been murdered.
"He didn't deserve that. No one does," said Stella Vados, daughter of Paul Vados.
"This is tantamount to the death penalty," said Gloria Allred, who represented Stella Vado and a relative of McDavid's. "They will die in prison. I think that's a just sentence."
Defense attorneys conceded the women were involved in insurance fraud but denied they had formed a murder conspiracy. Golay's attorney, Roger Jon Diamond, said during the trial that the women's idea was to insure old, sick, homeless people who would soon die.
The jury that convicted the women saw a secretly recorded videotape of the defendants in a lockup after their arrests. Rutterschmidt berated Golay, saying her actions in taking out 23 insurance policies raised a red flag when the men died.
"It's your fault," Rutterschmidt told Golay. "You can't have that many insurances. ... You were greedy. That's the problem."
The judge rejected a defense motion for a new trial which argued that the women's conversation was illegally videotaped. Two elderly women were sentenced to life in prison without parole Tuesday for murdering two indigent men to collect insurance policies... more -
Kato to be served murder warrant for Akihabara rampage
Aside from having really high suicide rates, Japan is a relatively safe place to live. So, anything out of the peaceful ordinary is worth bringing up.
"Police said Wednesday they are preparing to serve Tomohiro Kato with an arrest warrant for murdering seven people on the streets of Tokyo's Akihabara district on June 8... The truck and knife rampage left seven dead and 10 wounded."
First the earthquakes, then a stabbing, now this. Might delay my trip until the fall. Aside from having really high suicide rates, Japan is a relatively safe place to live. So, anything out of the peaceful ordinary is wo... more -
Tragic News For Elderly Hit-And-Run Victim
Doctors say the victim of a hit-and-run that was caught on videotape and viewed by a national audience will never breathe again without a respirator.
Angel Arce Torres, who is at Hartford Hospital, also will never return home, a family member said.
Torres was paralyzed from the neck down in the May 30 incident. He was struck by one of two cars that crossed the center line.
Angel Arce, the son of 78-year-old Torres, said his father's lung collapsed and he developed pneumonia.
Though Torres has remained conscious and does not have brain damage, Arce told the Hartford Courant his father will require around-the-clock care for the rest of his life.
Arce said he refuses to watch the video depicting his father's accident and is only interested in seeing the driver brought to justice.
"We lost my father," Arce told the newspaper. "We might as well say they killed my father. Someone has to know something. Somebody has got to say something. This was a human being, not a dog, man. And even if it was a dog, you don't leave a dog laying in the street."
"The people who did this to my father: Come forward. Don't be a coward. Come forward. Face the consequences. Turn yourself in," he told the newspaper.
This was a human being, not a dog, man. And even if it was a dog, you don't leave a dog laying in the street.
Angel Arce
The chilling scene touched off a round of soul-searching in Hartford, with the capital city's biggest newspaper blaring "SO INHUMANE" on the front page and the police chief lamenting: "We no longer have a moral compass."
Hartford officials say they received four cell phone calls within a minute of the incident. Police Chief Daryl Roberts initially said the city had lost its moral compass, noting that none of the witnesses appeared to come to Torres' aid.
"We have no regard for each other," Roberts said last week. Doctors say the victim of a hit-and-run that was caught on videotape and viewed by a national audience will never breathe again withou... more -
Hit and run victim actually did get help
Looks like all that fuss was for nothing. Apparently there was some apathy, but several people did call the police, who released the audio tapes of the calls. Looks like all that fuss was for nothing. Apparently there was some apathy, but several people did call the police, who released the a... more
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Bystanders Ignore Hit and Run Victim
Most people trust those around them to help them when they are the victims of an accident, but sadly that may no longer be true.
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Passers-by mostly ignore elderly man paralyzed by hit-and-run
This is crazy. The video shows a man getting hit by a car, and no one really does anything to help! so sad ...
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Video Shows Bystandars Ignoring Hit and Run Victim
A 78-year-old man is tossed like a rag doll by a hit-and-run driver and lies motionless on a busy city street as car after car goes by. Pedestrians gawk but appear to do nothing. One driver stops briefly but then pulls back into traffic. A man on a scooter slowly circles the victim before zipping away.
The chilling scene - captured on video by a streetlight surveillance camera - has touched off a round of soul-searching in Hartford, with the capital city's biggest newspaper blaring "SO INHUMANE" on the front page and the police chief lamenting: "We no longer have a moral compass."
"We have no regard for each other," said Chief Daryl Roberts, who on Wednesday released the video in hopes of making an arrest in the accident that left Angel Arce Torres in critical condition.
However, Roberts and other city officials backtracked on Thursday. After initially saying he was unsure whether anyone called 911, he and other city officials appeared at a news conference in which they said that four people dialed 911 within a minute of the accident, and that Torres received medical attention shortly after that.
"This moved too quickly," said Calixto Torres, City Council president. "People were putting information out too quickly."
Roberts said his initial angry reaction was based on what he saw in the video. "The video was very graphic and sent a very bad message," the police chief said.
The hit-and-run took place in daylight last Friday at about 5:45 p.m. in a working-class neighborhood close to downtown in this city of 125,000.
In the video, Torres, a retired fork-lift operator, walks in the two-way street just blocks from the state Capitol after buying milk at a grocery. A tan Toyota (nyse: TM - news - people ) and a dark Honda (nyse: HMC - news - people ) that is apparently chasing it veer across the center line, and Torres is struck by the Honda. Both cars then dart down a side street.
Nine cars pass Torres as a few people stare from the sidewalk. Some approach Torres, but most stay put until a police cruiser responding to an unrelated call arrives on the scene after about a minute and a half.
"Like a dog they left him there," said a disgusted Jose Cordero, 37, who was with friends Thursday not far from where Torres was struck. Robert Luna, who works at a store nearby, said: "Nobody did nothing."
One witness, Bryant Hayre, told the Courant he didn't feel comfortable helping Torres, who he said was bleeding and conscious.
The accident - and bystanders' apparent callousness - dominated morning radio talk shows.
"It was one of the most despicable things I've seen by one human being to another," the Rev. Henry Brown, a community activist, said in an interview. "I don't understand the mind-set anymore. It's kind of mind-boggling. We're supposed to help each other. You see somebody fall, you want to offer a helping hand."
The victim's son, Angel Arce, begged the public for help in finding the driver. "My father is fighting for his life," he said.
The hit-and-run is the second violent crime to shock Hartford this week. On Monday, former Deputy Mayor Nicholas Carbone, 71, was beaten and robbed while walking to breakfast. He remains hospitalized and faces brain surgery.
"There was a time they would have helped that man across the street. Now they mug and assault him," police chief said. "Anything goes."
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78-year-old hit by car. Pedestrians do nothing.
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A 78-year-old man is tossed like a rag doll by a hit-and-run driver and lies motionless on a busy city street as car after car goes by. Pedestrians gawk but do nothing. From the report: ... more -
Hit and run victim lies in the street, people just keep on walking
In an unusual display of public anger, Hartford's police chief Wednesday gave vent to his feelings about the recent violence afflicting his city and the lack of decency among residents.
Chief Daryl K. Roberts was responding to a hit-and-run Friday afternoon that left a 78-year-old city man paralyzed, lying in the middle of Park Street under full view of passing motorists and onlookers, the savage beating and robbery Monday morning of former Deputy Mayor Nicholas Carbone and the discovery Wednesday of a badly decomposed body of a man in the basement of his family's recently foreclosed home.
Roberts said those incidents are indicative of the callousness and lack of humanity that has taken hold of his city.
"Those are three situations that dehumanize our community," Roberts said, speaking to reporters at an afternoon press briefing. "I'm ashamed to say our city has a toxic relationship with ourselves."
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I was shocked at people's indifference. In an unusual display of public anger, Hartford's police chief Wednesday gave vent to his feelings about the recent violence affl... more -
Mobile Saves Life....
...well almost, a hit and run victim lay half dead on a road somewhere in the depths of West London, after been hit by a mystery car. Still laying in the road, the victim, 21 year old Kate Sheedy, managed to phone her Mum and call for help saying that "If you don't get here soon I'm going to die." Kate suffered horrific injuries from the accident, including a punctured lung, a crushed liver and also a torn open back, thankfully she has since made a full recovery.
These revelations have come from the court case governing the incident, which sees the suspect, Mr Bellfield of West Drayton, denying involvement in this case as well as two other attacks on women between October 2001 and August 2004.
Thank god for mobile phones! ...well almost, a hit and run victim lay half dead on a road somewhere in the depths of West London, after been hit by a mystery car. ... more
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