Personal Injury Law

Sixteen Year-Old Driver Flees Scene of Hit and Run

According to a story in the New York Times, on June 21st a sixteen year-old driver fled the scene of a hit and run accident that injured four people, including two toddlers. Witnesses to the accident said that the car struck two children in Manhattan, who were playing on a sidewalk. When the driver fled the scene he left the two children, both two years of age, bleeding on the sidewalk. The other two victims of the hit and run, a sixteen year-old and a nineteen year-old, were listed in stable condition. Police officers caught up with the driver and arrested him on charges of reckless endangerment, reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident.

Shockingly, this hit and run on June 21st follows a string of recent similar events at three Manhattan locations-hitting a total of 18 people. Three of those injured were hospitalized in serious condition and eleven others were treated for less serious injuries.

In one case, a sixty year old driver made the mistake of hitting the gas instead of the brake while pulling out of a parking spot. As a result, the car struck seven pedestrians in Chinatown on the sidewalk and a bench. Two of those people were hospitalized in serious but stable condition.

Full post as published by New York Injury Talk Blog on June 20, 2008 (boomark / email).