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Addressing the Hit-and-Run Epidemic: When “Finishing the Ride” Acts as the Launch of a Movement
So, this is what it takes to make people angry enough to care, I thought as I looked out over the sea of elected officials, journalists, cameras, and cyclists gathering at the start point for Damian Kevitt's Finish the Ride event Sunday morning.
April 28, 2014
Judge to Hit-and-Run Perpetrator: Don’t Do it Again or it Will Be Considered Murder
"If you drink and drive and kill someone again, [this time] it will carry a charge of murder with a minimum sentence of 15 years," the judge told 21-year-old Wendy Villegas at her sentencing hearing. "Do you understand?"*
April 22, 2014
Plea Deal for Drunk Driver that Killed Andy Garcia Does Little to Ease Pain of Victims, Friends, and Families
Even the judge looked confused when the plea deal offered to Wendy Villegas was read out in court, says a somber Mario Lopez.
April 4, 2014
Bill Suspending Hit-and-Run Drivers’ Licenses Passes Assembly Committee
The California Assembly's Public Safety Committee voted 7-0 Tuesday to approve A.B. 1532, which would require an automatic license suspension for drivers who flee the scene of a crash where a person is hit, even if that person is not injured.
March 12, 2014
Hearing For One Hit-and-Run is Rescheduled While Another Takes the Life of a Young Man in Watts
When a female (who may or may not have been walking her bicycle) was hit and killed by a bus on Slauson in South L.A. last month, I got a few phone calls from friends in the area.
February 5, 2014
“Nothing Brings Me Comfort”: Family of Hit-and-Run Victim Plan to Hold Ride to Driver’s Hearing
What goes through the mind of a drunk driver who senselessly mows people down?
January 31, 2014
Hit-and-Run Victims and Surviving Family Members Face Drunk Driver at Her Arraignment
This past Wednesday, friends and family of Andy Garcia, killed in a brutal hit-and-run last month, came face to face with the woman that had upended their lives.
October 11, 2013
An Open Letter to ABC 7 Concerning Their Coverage of a Hit and Run Crash That Killed Andy Shah
(The following letter was sent to Streetsblog with the understanding that we would publish it by the friends and family of Anand "Andy" Shah. Shah passed away after being struck in a hit and run crash in September. The LAPD is still looking for information about the driver who caused the collision. The only edit I made was to remove the text of a link and hyper link it in the same sentence. The letter was written in response to the video embedded directly below.- DN)
October 9, 2013