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RSS FeedsWhy do hit-and-run drivers flee? For some, it´s panic. Others, a lack of remorse, experts say
(The Star Toronto Raptors)

 
 

13 october 2018 03:49:37

 
Why do hit-and-run drivers flee? For some, it´s panic. Others, a lack of remorse, experts say
(The Star Toronto Raptors)
 


Fred Ansaldo never saw the driver who hit him coming. He was riding a Bikeshare bicycle on Front St. W. a few days before Christmas in 2016 when he suddenly felt something strike his back wheel. The impact launched him off the bike and onto the hood of the car. He fell to the ground, and rolled out of the way just in time to see one of the vehicle’s wheels coming to a stop inches from his head. As he lay there dazed, a thought intruded into his mind. “Oh s---,” he thought. “She’s running away.”The driver had stopped momentarily after the impact, Ansaldo recalled in a recent interview, but he watched in shock as the person behind the wheel sped off down Front St., in full view of the crowds of people who were on the busy downtown street at morning rush hour.“It was surprise first, because I couldn’t believe my eyes,” Ansaldo said. “And then it was anger.”The hit-and-run collision left Ansaldo with a broken tailbone, and he said still experiences pain as a result of the incident. But other victims of similar crashes haven’t escaped with only injuries.In the past three weeks, there has been a rash of fatal hit-and-runs in Toronto. Since Sept. 21, four drivers have fled collisions that left a pedestrian dead, according to statistics compiled by the Star based on police news releases and media reports. Of the at least 32 pedestrians killed so far this year, nine of them, or almost one third, were victims of hit-and-runs. They include 50-year-old Isabel Soria, who was killed after she was hit by the driver of a pickup truck on Dufferin St. on June 11. According to police, the driver got out of the vehicle, approached the dying woman, and then sped off. A 27-year-old man from Oshawa was later arrested.On Sept. 26, a 61-year-old man was run down while crossing St. Clair Ave. E. The same day a 79-year-old was struck in Scarborough by a minivan driver that left the scene. The victim died 10 days later ...


 
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