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In reply to the discussion: Hit-and-run charges for drivng over a leaf pile where kids were playing [View all]pnwmom
(108,959 posts)28. Isn't panicking and leaving basically why it's a hit and run? And she lied
afterwards, when the police came to her and she told them she hadn't driven through any leaf piles.
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Hit-and-run charges for drivng over a leaf pile where kids were playing [View all]
alp227
Jan 2014
OP
We used to rake them into the gutter and the city would come along and pick them up.
upaloopa
Jan 2014
#4
I've been reading about this in the Oregonian. It is a very, very, VERY sad story.
Warren DeMontague
Jan 2014
#2
Yup, that all is my take also. So sad, so tragic, and the trouble is for covering it up afterwards.
uppityperson
Jan 2014
#18
There's no specific law against it, but it's generally considered unsafe driving.
Xithras
Jan 2014
#45
I think the issue is she didn't call the police when she was told she may have hit the children
aikoaiko
Jan 2014
#10
If she had called the police as soon as her brother told her that she hit a child,
Nye Bevan
Jan 2014
#11
Remember the Twilight Zone episode about the hit n run that killed a child?
Omaha Steve
Jan 2014
#24
We used to do that, but never in the street. We'd pile the leaves and make a bird's next to sit in.
freshwest
Jan 2014
#33
When I grew up and got my own place, I did, but when I was a kid, we mulched trees and bushes.
freshwest
Jan 2014
#49