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#1 2013-06-08 01:46:07

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NYC driver gets off scot-free after killing 21-year-old in hit-and-run

When I was in NYC last year, I saw posters and flowers at an intersection at Union Square for a woman killed by a hit-and-run driver.

The driver was recently acquitted.  Not even probation.  Nothing.

He'd made a right turn across a crosswalk, where pedestrians had a green signal.  He claimed he didn't know he'd hit anyone.  (How many times have we heard that one?)  Seems like he should have at least been found guilty of *failing to yield* to a crosswalk.  I mean, we do have a rather large piece of evidence for that one: a dead body.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manh … obinsource

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