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**bug_user** · 06-06-2008, 06:52 AM

My gut feeling is that hit-and-run accidents are more prevalent today (even adjusted for population) than in the 1970s.

oddly,it was not the hit and run aspect of this that bothered me as much as the inactions of the bystanders. I agree, we hear more about hit and runs today but what I find most disturbing is that at 5:45 PM on a busy street during rush hour, no one stopped to help this poor man. No one wanted to get involved, to take a license plate, to call the cops. That is what was meant by my 1970's reference.

06-06-2008, 06:52 AM	#6
bug_user Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 542 Senior Member	My gut feeling is that hit-and-run accidents are more prevalent today (even adjusted for population) than in the 1970s. oddly,it was not the hit and run aspect of this that bothered me as much as the inactions of the bystanders. I agree, we hear more about hit and runs today but what I find most disturbing is that at 5:45 PM on a busy street during rush hour, no one stopped to help this poor man. No one wanted to get involved, to take a license plate, to call the cops. That is what was meant by my 1970's reference.
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