allism's Journal: Watch where you're going...

My husband Rich was crossing 9th at Grant in Denver yesterday when someone making a right turn hit Rich with his car and left the scene, yelling "Sorry!" out his car window. He's more or less OK, his knee is banged up, but he was too stunned to get a license plate number.

The driver had a kid in the car with him. Some example he's setting for his kid.

I doubt they're going to catch the guy - how many late-nineties gold Ford Taurus SHOs are there in Denver?

Then this morning, when I was taking Rich to the doctor to get his knee looked at, we came across an accident a block and a half from our house where a woman had just mowed down a high school kid on a bicycle. I think he's going to be OK, maybe a broken arm and a head injury (he knew his name but couldn't remember his parents' or his phone number).

We've had problems with people speeding in our neighborhood, and I don't have much reason to think that this woman wasn't driving too fast for the conditions, given that the roads were wet and the kid and his bicycle were knocked completely under and to the back of the ginormous truck the woman was driving. And as far as walking in downtown Denver, well...I'm just glad it wasn't one of us walking with Rhys across that intersection, as we have done many many times.

i have to wonder about people

[subgeek]

i have to wonder if he felt that simply yelling, "sorry!" out the window made up for injuring another human with his car. i wonder if he was too busy with the world as it revolves around him to think about whether he felt justified.

Re:i have to wonder about people

[allism]

I have to wonder the next time his kid does something and uses as his excuse, "But I thought I wouldn't get caught!"

Or even better, the first accident the kid gets in as a teenager he drives off from, gets caught, and tells the police about his dad driving off from an accident...