This is a sad story all around.
Two Saturday's ago there was a guy from Chicago that was in MC visiting his girl friend. It was 3am when he decided to walk from her apartment to the gas station. On his way, he got hit by a car on Highway 20. The driver of that car kept driving. A guy driving a truck stopped after it happened. He parked his truck at an angle so other drivers could see there was a problem.
The guy that got hit was alive, the ambulance was on its way when a white silverado swerved into the oncoming traffic lane to avoid the road block and quickly swerved back into the correct lanes, and he ran over the victim again! He also kept on driving! The guy died before the ambulance got there after the second hit.
The good Samaritan that tried to help with his truck is a customer of ours. He is all torn up, he looks just awful. Worse than that - he blames himself and keeps asking people What did I do wrong? What would you have done? He said he feels like he is going to black out every time he drives past that spot, he doesn't even drive that way anymore.
He decided to go to the funeral for the man and said the man's family couldn't be more grateful for his efforts. And the dad has been staying in touch with him. Which of course, only makes him feel worse that he couldn't save his son.
The first driver that hit him actually worked for the News Dispatch. She drove off and reported her car as hijacked. Guess she should have went home and changed clothes first because we heard she had little pieces of the windshield class stuck to her shirt.
The driver of the silverado has yet to be found.
I hope they need to throw the book at her. She had to have known that she hit him. She probably had drugs or alchol in her system. wI don't know about Indiana but here they will punish her but not as harshly as they should. Maybe having to live with the victim's family for 10 years to see their grief would be harder than prison. The other guy may not have realized that he ran over him thinking it was an accident and part of a car or that the car had hit an animal. You know how people are about hitting animals...
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