scorch

Anyone know who bob novak? Just a while ago he was cited for hitting a pedestrian in georgetown, and previously he hit a cyclist.

https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11985.html



here is the article.


Syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak was cited by police after he hit a pedestrian with his black Corvette in downtown Washington, D.C., on Wednesday morning.

A Politico reporter saw Novak in the front of a police car with a citation in his hand; a WJLA-TV crew and reporter saw Novak as well. The pedestrian, a 66-year-old man who was not further identified by authorities, was treated at George Washington University Hospital for minor injuries, according to D.C. Fire and EMS. Novak was later released by police and drove away from the scene.

“I didn’t know I hit him. ... I feel terrible,” a shaken Novak told reporters from Politico and WJLA as he was returning to his car. "He's not dead, that's the main thing." Novak said he was a block away from 18th and K streets Northwest, where the accident occurred, when a bicyclist stopped him and said he had hit someone. He said he was cited for failing to yield the right of way.

The bicyclist was David Bono, a partner at Harkins Cunningham, who was on his usual bike commute to work at 1700 K St. N.W. when he witnessed the accident.

As he traveled east on K Street, crossing 18th, Bono said "a black Corvette convertible with top closed plows into the guy. The guy is sort of splayed into the windshield.”

Bono said that the pedestrian, who was crossing the street on a "Walk" signal and was in the crosswalk, rolled off the windshield and that Novak then made a right into the service lane of K Street. “This car is speeding away. What’s going through my mind is, you just can’t hit a pedestrian and drive away,” Bono said.



He said he chased Novak half a block down K Street, finally caught up with him and then put his bike in front of the car to block it and called 911. Traffic immediately backed up, horns blaring, until commuters behind Novak backed up so he could pull over.

Bono said that throughout, Novak "keeps trying to get away. He keeps trying to go.” He said he vaguely recognized the longtime political reporter and columnist as a news personality but could not precisely place him.

Finally, Bono said, Novak put his head out the window of his car and motioned him over. Bono said he told him that you can't hit a pedestrian and just drive away. He quoted Novak as responding: “I didn’t see him there.”

A concierge at 1700 K Street said that she saw a bicyclist yelling and walked outside to see what the commotion was about.

"This guy hit somebody and he won't stop so I'm going to stay here until the police come," Aleta Petty quoted Bono as saying, as he stood in K Street, blocking traffic.

D.C. police confirmed that there was an accident at 18th and K streets NW at approximately 10 a.m. involving a black Corvette convertible and that the driver was a white male.

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The intersection is in the hub of Washington’s business district and is filled with pedestrians who work in the law firms and lobby shops that line the corridor.

Novak, 77, has earned a reputation around the capital as an aggressive driver, easily identified in his convertible sports car.

In 2001, he cursed at a pedestrian on the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 13th streets Northwest for allegedly jaywalking.

“’Learn to read the signs, [bodily orifice]!’ Novak snapped before speeding away,” according to an item in The Washington Post’s Reliable Source column.

Novak explained to the paper: "He was crossing on the red light. I really hate jaywalkers. I despise them. Since I don't run the country, all I can do is yell at 'em. The other option is to run 'em over, but as a compassionate conservative, I would never do that."

Two years later, the same column reported that Novak had gone to a racing school in Florida.

"I've wanted to be a racecar driver all my life, and anyone who has watched me drive can tell you that,” Novak said.

jyossarian

Bob Novak also outed Valerie Plame as a CIA operative. He didn't always need a car to endanger peoples lives.

yoder

Big Maryland Terrapin fan.

unterhausen

I haven't seen any info about him hitting a cyclist. He lived his life, rip.

miles.lowry

RIP [bodily orifice]

MilitantPotato

+1

Hydrated

I'm sure that nobody will ever have anything bad at all to say about you when you die.

Just shut your pie holes and let the man stay dead. Losers.

bluegoatwoods

Oh, we want him to stay dead. What gave you the stupid idea that we didn't?

Shimagnolo

HardyWeinberg

Imagine ZombieNovak roadraging through DC in a camaro... or a monster truck!

Mr IGH

Always love how he tweeked the libs on their personal new network, CNN. Looks like some of them never got over it

nelson249

CNN full of liberals???? My friend, you have no idea what a liberal is.

rix

Canadian/European party names /=/ American definitions of ideology.

KitN

+2

modernjess

I was quite pleased to hear of his passing.

wunderkind

and this has to do with Commuting forum because?

jyossarian

He hit a ped on his way to work and claims not to have seen him splayed upon his windshield. Who among us can say we haven't done the same thing commuting on our bikes?

DataJunkie

**** or IBTM
P&R

scorch

Yup, thats why i posted it. That and the same route i take to go home and to work. I remember when he hit the last guy, and i work for a conservative organization that loves him. But thats definatly a no no. The pedestrian was practically on his windshield and he left. But if you konw this area, if a cyclist sees you then he can catch you because there are so many lights. Novak just thought he could get away.

Im glad the guy is dead. i know its bad to say. But there.

And that was not his only time he hit a pedestrian BTW

2_i 

It is not very surprising that one's attitude towards others is consistently revealed in different venues of one's life. I am further sure there must be some writers here who would leave a victim at the scene as well.

Bikepacker67

C'mon now... the [bodily orifice] prided himself on being the prince of darkness.

I think he'd be disappointed if his political adversaries weren't [eliminating bodily fluids] on his grave.

dschwarz

Normally I would not defend the ******bag of Liberty but in the case where he hit a pedestrian and claimed not to see the guy, Novak may have been telling the truth. Novak was diagnosed with a brain tumor shortly after hitting the pedestrian, and (as I understand it) tumors can cause problems with vision and perception.