[MIchaelTArchangel]

Sounds like a made up story to me. She had better hope there are two sets of tire tracks on the dead guy’s clothes.

[doc1019]

The ole’ classic “he was already dead when I killed him” defense. ;-)

[Pontiac]

During the early morning hours on Sunday, a man was hit while riding his bicycle on East Main Street near the Interstate 270 bridge on Columbus' east side.

Tina Maharath, 16, "I was on my way home from hanging out with friends and I hit something. So I looked in the rearview mirror and I noticed it was a guy,"

I guess I am old fashioned and I have to wonder what a 16 year old is doing driving home in the “early morning hours from hanging out with friends”.

Her parents might have something to learn from this.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

I correct myself. If they take a special eds drivers course, they can get it at 17 years of age.

[LibWhacker]

I really did not see him until the last minute," she said.

Then I considered it carefully for 59 seconds, whereupon I decided to swerve and run over him.

[arichtaxpayer]

I don’t think you would be able to see that it was a ‘body’ in the rear view mirror. No way, it’s just too dark.

I’ve seen 16 year old girls drive. It should be outlawed.

[FoxInSocks]

"I didn't know … I really did not see him. I really did not see him until the last minute," she said.

If she only ever saw him in her rear view mirror, I don't see how she can claim he was already dead.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

My mother and father-in-law were driving on a side street. They were bumped from the rear and hit a long black vehicle in front of them. Out popped a gurney with a man strapped to it.

The driver of this vehicle stopped his car and came to talk to my mother and father-in-law, trying to ascertain if they were safe and unharmed.

My mother-in-law could barely speak audibly as she pointed at the black vehicle and whispered if the man on the gurney was okay.

The driver of the black vehicle chuckled and said he was transporting a body to the funeral home; the man wasn’t alive.

My in-laws were never so relieved in their lives!

LOL

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Sorry, Pontiac, I meant my post #6 to go to kiki04.

No damage done I hope.

I think it is time for me to go to bed.

Regards.

[Fintan]

Tina Maharath, 16, was behind the wheel of the vehicle that hit him. But Maharath claims the man, 32-year-old Andres Gonzalez, had already been hit and killed.

"I was on my way home from hanging out with friends and I hit something. So I looked in the rearview mirror and I noticed it was a guy," she said.

"So, like, you know, I was on my cell, texting, like minding my own business, you know? And like, I'm talking to Dana, she's like, you know, my best bud? and she hangs with Jason & Jude and they're SO COOL and they're hanging at Kelly's mom's house, sucking some bombs, when, like all of a sudden, this old dead guy is riding his bike, and, you know, like as soon as I see him, I'm like, Ohmygod  and then I like, you know, got a text from Dizzle 'cuz his 'rents are, you know like, out of town, and there's a party, so, you know, I'm, like THERE.

[Disciplinemisanthropy]

ill never understand people who are too scared to stop after hitting someone, let alone turning yourself in days later. doesnt initial fear subside after about five minutes?

then again ive never ran anyone over..

[no dems]

First of all, why was a 16 year old kid out driving in the early morning hours?

Oh, never mind...I’m too old fashioned I guess.

[chesty_puller]

The bed was on fire when I laid down on it!

[RachelFaith]

Anyone who DOESN’T report is guilty of a hit and run FELONY. The very reason is that they were likely TRYING to avoid the lessor charge of Drunk Driving. Stupid Girl.

[Global2010]

Coroner autopsy will be able to tell.

Years ago before we had free shuttles to take folks to and fro are Towns big Seafood and Wine drinking fest a horrible thing happened.

Police told a man not to drive due to how intoxicated he was.

He was walking in the dark along Hwy 101 trying to hitch home.

So drunk wobbling into the road out of the bike/walking lane he was hit and his body fell in the road.

The police were called pronto and the officers who told him to walk home not knowing it was the same guy responded to the call with lights and speed.

They ran over the mans dead body a second time.

What a horrible incident.

We have not gone the Seafood Fest in years no fun trying to maneuver KV’s wheelchair in a packed tent of tipsy tourists.

However I hear they have changed
how wild the intoxication gets and big presence of police waiting to stop potential DUI before they get to far down the road. The free shuttles help too.

[ArmstedFragg]

Quick, call Michael Baden! In 2004, he testified that a guy who’d been punched in the head, then fallen to the pavement and suffered a seven inch skull fracture had actually died of a stroke an instant before he was hit.

[Kirkwood]

The cops will check the car for damage. A man on a bike being hit by a car is going to leave trace evidence. No trace evidence and I would believe her story that the body was lying in the road.

It is sometimes not easy to see things lying in the road at night. You might see a dark blob of something, but it doesn’t register as being anything more than a shadow until you hit it. About 8 years ago a guy was left dead in the road about a half mile from my house. I drove past the body on the way to work at 6 am. Fortunately I didn’t run over him myself. The guy had been jogging in the middle of an unlit road while wearing dark clothes when he was hit by a hit and run driver. I heard later on the news that the body was run over at least a couple times by other vehicles.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Forensics will clear this up.

[woofer]

I was on my way home from hanging out with friends and I hit something. So I looked in the rearview mirror and I noticed it was a guy," she said.

First statement.

"I didn't know … I really did not see him. I really did not see him until the last minute,"

Second statement, contradictory to first,

"didn't see him"...

"until the last minute"...???

Methinks she should 'shut-up', then 'lawyer-up'. That interview is evidence, now.

[Recovering Hermit]

"At first, I didn't want to tell the truth about what happened if someone else had already hit and killed him, which is what happened," she said.

Really? Okay, then...you're free to go.

Drive carefully, now!