Advocacy & Safety - I Can't beleive it

This is the second time something like this has happened in this area in recent memory (like 2 years) The last one got off with 3 years I hope they start throwing the book at these clowns. How could you not know you were dragging a person.

http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_110403WABwindshieldfatalSW.1a0c0bfd.html


Police say man drove for blocks with crash victim stuck in windshield
07:45 AM PST on Tuesday, November 4, 2003


Associated Press


SEATTLE - A man has been arrested after a fatal accident in which police say a pedestrian was hit by a car, became lodged in the windshield and was carried for several blocks.

A 29-year-old Olympia man was being held for investigation of hit-and-run and vehicular homicide in the death of Walter High, 47, of Kirkland, police Sgt. Paul Gracy said Monday.

High was talking with some people standing on the driver's side of their car with the door open early Sunday morning on Rainier Avenue South in Columbia City when he was hit by a northbound 1991 Honda Accord, Gracy said.

High crashed into the Honda's windshield, then somehow became dislodged a few blocks later and fell onto the street, Gracy said.

The driver called for aid in the parking lot of a grocery store.

When asked about the collision, the driver told officers he did not know that what had hit was a person and that he could not get cellular telephone reception to report the accident near the accident scene, Gracy said.

High was taken to Harborview Medical Center but did not survive. His blood was found inside the Honda and on the driver and cell phone, police said.

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Huh, I didn't hear anything about this.

you need to be a member of king 5's site so I couldn't read the rest of the article.

that sucks though, for sure.

the driver told officers he did not know that what had hit was a person


blood was found inside the Honda and on the driver and cell phone, police said.

How much more intimate with a corpse does this guy have to get before he recognises it?

How much more intimate with a corpse does this guy have to get before he recognises it?

well, the area that this happened has alot of drug use going on. so it wouldn't surprise me at all that the person wouldn't know what they hit.

This problem could be solved by removing winsheilds from all vehicles. Then the pedestrians will just fall into the passenger seat and get a free ride down the road.

So just how much of a moron does one have to be to take this guys excuses with any degree of seriousness?

High was taken to Harborview Medical Center but did not survive. His blood was found inside the Honda and on the driver and cell phone, police said.

Am I the only one who's kind of hoping they discover the victim was somehow HIV positive?

Yet another example of someone getting into a car and suddenly forgetting all regard they ever had for human life.

Am I the only one who's kind of hoping they discover the victim was somehow HIV positive?.


Now that would be justice

Very troubling and sad...

:(

Heck, I live in TX (near Dallas) where a woman hit a pedestrian who became lodged in the windshield. She then *drove home and parked the car in garage and LET THE MAN DIE*. She testified that she could hear his week cries for help for hours! Physicians said he would have lived if she had taken him to a hospital, but he died from shock after something like 24 hours! I think they pretty much threw the book at her, but it was horrible to hear about! :P

with that case in texas as well as this case, the driver was under the influence of drugs.

heavy drugs.

It's not just drugs, not just cars...
I guess the driver was no driver, just some sort of interesting case to the public.

Jacob

yea. so I was at a friends house last night and I brought up this case. I said "did you hear about the guy who hit a person and drove for four blocks with that person in their windshield?"
and their response was, "WE KNOW THAT GUY!!"

he dated a good friend of my friends. seems he was a grade A A-Hole. my friend said he knew it was only a matter of time before this guy did something bad. they didn't know what but they knew he was out of control and had no soul.

small world eh?

Here is an update they charged him with vehicular homicide, irony here is thye couldn't find anything for the woman cell phone user that killed that family but they found something to charge this guy with

http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_111304WAwindshielddeathEL.16a1c08.html

nate. your links to king 5 don't work if your not a member.....

Sorry here is the text



Charge filed for 'windshield' hit-and-run driver
02:34 PM PST on Thursday, November 13, 2003

By ARTURO SANTIAGO / KING 5 News


SEATTLE – A driver accused of striking a man on a Seattle street and then pulling the body out of the windshield and driving away appeared in court Thursday, charged with vehicular homicide and hit-and-run. He pleaded not guilty.

Nearly two weeks ago, 29-year-old Troy Hagen from Olympia, was driving down Rainier Avenue South early Sunday morning. Walter High had just left a nightclub and was standing near a parked car talking to friends.

Hagen allegedly hit High, with the impact throwing high onto the hood, and his head through the windshield of Hagen's car.


According to charging papers, Hagen drove four more blocks, then stopped and removed High's body, leaving it in the street.

He drove 11 more blocks then called 911, about 20 minutes after the accident.

Hagen said his cell phone couldn't get a signal so he drove to where it could.

"The version that the prosecutor has put forth of the significant delay and serious disregard for Mr. High's health will be the one that will be borne out in the end," said David Babcok, the victim’s family attorney.

But defense attorney, John Henry Browne, said his client was not really aware that he had hit a person.

"Two o'clock in the morning, Rainier Avenue South, he thought a duffle bag had been thrown into his car,” said Browne. “He was very much afraid and then when he realized it wasn't a duffle bag, that it was a person, that's when he stopped."

Charging papers said Hagen was high on methamphetamine at the time of the accident. Still, the judge decided against the $300,000 bail that prosecutors were asking for and set bail at $75,000 with Troy Hagen on an electronic tether.

"We see it the other way, he's a risk because he's using drugs - he's obviously driving on those drugs, and not making good decisions when that occurred," said Babcock.

Browne said his client is on suicide watch in prison.

"He feels awful just because anyone would who killed somebody in a traffic accident," said Browne.

Charging papers described a horrific scene, saying the crash left behind pools of blood in Hagen's car, and a trail of blood from the spot of the collision.

Hagen did turn himself in to police the morning of the accident.

The victim's body was found by liquor control agents, who were in the area and noticed the commotion.

Hagen's next court appearance has not been scheduled.

http://www.king5.com/localnews/stor...EL.16a1c08.html

PS Ngateguy is my handle the name is David ;)

cool. thanks for posting that, David.

my friends said this guy threatend to burn his girlfriends house down if she broke up with him. and he used to beat her up too. sounds like a real nice guy...