Last night I got hit by a car and broke my knee [Jim Treacher hit and run by Secret Service?]

Daily Caller (via HotAir) ^ | 4 February 2010 | Jim Treacher

[batter]

Sometime between 7 and 7:30, not long after I got home from work, I walked to the CVS on 22nd and M to get some bread, milk, and a SmartTrip card. I was right across the street from the CVS, and I waited for the crosswalk light to tell me to go before I crossed. I had plenty of time left, according to the countdown clock. I was more than halfway there when a black SUV made an illegal left turn and hit me head-on. I absolutely had the right of way. I yelled something like, “Are you really doing this?” as it hit me before I could move. I landed on my face on the street and smashed my glasses and scraped my hand and immediately I knew something was wrong with my left knee. I lay there screaming and cursing for I don’t know how long, and a crowd of people gathered and told me to hold still. I was sprawled out right next to the yellow line as traffic went by.

[snip]

One last thing: I’m told by multiple people that the SUV that hit me was Secret Service. If this is true, I want to know why that happened. I was crossing legally, and they just left me there. At the very least, I want an apology. What happened to me was wrong.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

It might have been someone from a foreign embassy, with diplomatic immunity.

[batter]

Maybe his toddler in the Barbie powerwheels convertable?

[cripplecreek]

I was dirving into the dirveway and dorve over some drunken clown’s hands.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Were you dirving a black SUV ?

[batter]

dorve

Did you just slur your speech...tell the truth, you drove over your own hands.

[Vaduz]

Never party to much.

[faq]

From Twitter:

I know the Secret Service hit me because the cops said so. Oh, and so did the Secret Service. No apology, though. Yet.

[Bigg Red]

Old, old drunk joke. And I think the poster meant “drove over my hands”.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

This may shed some more light on this incident.

Dorve

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Dorve

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

LOL, L knew there had to be a good explaination. ;0)

[superdad]

He should have someone go back to the location and see if there are any security cameras. If so, he should get copies of the tapes, hiring an attorney if necessary. You do not want to get into a he said, she said fight with law enforcement.

[batter]

hmmm. That does make this much more interesting.

[batter]

He says he was across the street from the CVS. That would be a good place to start to ask for potential security cameras.

Interestingly enough, faq just mentioned that Treacher tweeted that the Police and the Secret Service have confirmed he was hit by the Secret Service. I wonder if those vehicles have dash cams?...

[Erasmus]

You mean ‘durnken.’

[kitchen]

I suppose you had crawled all the way home...

[faq]

An update says federal officials are claiming the SUV involved was a State Department security vehicle, not the Secret Service.

[verity]

Thanks for the amusing thread.:-)

[flamberge]

Yet another update seems to indicate that a contract security officer for the State Department was driving the SUV that hit Mr Treacher.

The driver apparently perjured himself by claiming that Treacher was jaywalking and that the accident occurred several blocks away in the middle of a street. (Treacher was issued a jaywalking ticket at his hospital bed on the driver's complaint).

The ambulance report and that of eyewitnesses contradicts the driver's claims. There is probably a security camera video of the incident as well.

I wonder why the State Department is trying to back the account of the SUV driver.

[Vaduz]

Yes I take my daughter for a walk on sungays until I find my car.