Speaking of taking responsibility for ones actions…
- The 26-year-old Marine veteran turned himself into police on Thursday
- He reportedly hit a pedestrian crossing a Columbia, South Carolina street on December 8 and drove off instead of helping the victim
- President Obama awarded Carpenter the highest military honor for heroically throwing himself on a grenade to protect a fellow Marine
This isn’t news…. Sounds like he stopped but victim waved him off.
You do this brave man an injustice with your misleading heading. He *did* stop. The victim deemed himself well enough to refuse aid.
This happens all the time. I was FF/PM for 30 years and saw variations of this over and over.
Person gets hit (maybe) refuses to be checked out by us. Signs release. Later on we get depositioned on the lawsuit.
Person gets hit (definitely) doesn’t want police or fire called out. Later we get called to their residence (if they have one) their corner if they’re homeless. We may or may not find injuries. Either way the driver is screwed because he didn’t involve the police. It doesn’t matter that the driver and the person involved agreed to not call.
Driver is charged with hit and run even though nothing of the sort took place.
Local, and slightly less lurid report.
http://www.wltx.com/story/news/crime/2015/12/31/medal-honor-recipient-charged-hit-run/78129120/
Some will stop at nothing to criticize or belittle our military heroes.
I have lost count of the number of times I nearly ran into some dumbshit crossing mid-block, at night, WEARING BLACK! This sounds like something similar. The “victim” even waived-off paramedics. Columbia is a military town; Kyle Carpenter should be able to get a good attorney pro-Bono and a sympathetic jury to fix this problem.
Get him the same attorney who for Columbia’s mayor (Benjamin) who received a citation only after his accident in which the other driver died.
Yup. I miss the edit button.
http://www.thestate.com/latest-news/article14383832.html
I really need to wait on commenting before I can get to a real computer to check things.
Benjamin was found to be at fault, was fined $87 and settled privately with the victim. The paper stated her death did not have anything to do with the crash. http://www.thestate.com/latest-news/article14408198.html
The take-away here is that jumping on a grenade is less frightening than subjecting yourself to the US legal system, I guess.