@BillRM,
Quote:Of course now that this thread had shown how unreasonable the law enforcement people can be
Right, they really are "unreasonable" when a drunk driver hits someone on a bike, keeps driving, and leaves the man alone, dying in the street. Arresting someone for doing that sure is "unreasonable", isn't it?
And, they'll arrest you for doing the same thing even if you are sober, just to be "unreasonable".
You can't just hit people with your car and leave them severely injured and helpless and alone in the road.
At the very least, in the middle of the night, you ought to block them with your car to keep someone else from running over them, if you don't have flares to put out, and you ought to do that, just to protect them from more harm, even if there is no way you can medically assist the victim.
When you are supposed to stop your car and remain at the scene, that's what you should do. And, on a residential block, you can always hit your horn non-stop if you have to, to draw attention to the need for help. And that would wake up the neighborhood or attract the attention of the police.
You don't know that he went home and called police, or how long it took him to call the police, if that was what he did. You just know that, at some point, for some reason, the police appeared at his door.
And you don't know that there weren't any other cars on that street--that there weren't other cars going in either the same direction, or the opposite direction, on that street, who might have seen the accident and might have pulled over to help. Or who might have come along a minute or two after the accident and offered help. Swift mightn't have known any of that that either if he didn't bother to stop.
And jcboy said he had his cell phone with him. And they can be recharged in the car if need be.
The problem isn't the law, the problem is the way he acted after hitting someone with his car. Is there any state in which a hit and run wouldn't be regarded as illegal?
