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Seth Vidal, creator of yum, killed in hit and run accident

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Re: Seth Vidal, creator of yum, killed in hit and run accident

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Someone struck him with a car and killed him. I think leaving the scene after killing someone with a vehicle should satisfy any any standard of negligence.

Let me paint you a picture - an accurate picture, as agreed by both parties in a court of law. Whilst I did not witness the incident, I was an EMS responder. And whilst this did not end in a death, there are many a parallel. A young man, in a hurry, changes his plans, and driving. He pulls in to an old fire station, turned scout hall, where some boy scouts are having a meeting. In the courtyard that was the engine ap…

Sorry, I don't see how this is relevant. Kemp struck Seth with his car, killing him, and ran away. That is a black and white issue, he hit someone minding their own business and ran without taking responsibility, turning his accident into a crime.

The situation you describe is about an altercation between parties that results in injury. It's so different from a hit and run that I'm not even sure where the logical connection is (besides both stories involving a car).

Re: Seth Vidal, creator of yum, killed in hit and run accident

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It's a bit of a stretch to refer to most large European cities being "designed", at least recently, isn't it?

The urban cores are very old, but many of them are surprisingly small, with the bulk of the city dating to the past 100-150 years. Copenhagen's old center, for example, was less than 10km across (confined within city walls until the 1850s), so nearly the entire city was laid out according to 19th- and 20th-century urban plans (the 20th-century one was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_Plan ). The city where it's ar…

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Re: Seth Vidal, creator of yum, killed in hit and run accident

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Let me paint you a picture - an accurate picture, as agreed by both parties in a court of law. Whilst I did not witness the incident, I was an EMS responder. And whilst this did not end in a death, there are many a parallel. A young man, in a hurry, changes his plans, and driving. He pulls in to an old fire station, turned scout hall, where some boy scouts are having a meeting. In the courtyard that was the engine ap…

Sorry, I don't see how this is relevant. Kemp struck Seth with his car, killing him, and ran away. That is a black and white issue, he hit someone minding their own business and ran without taking responsibility, turning his accident into a crime. The situation you describe is about an altercation between parties that results in injury. It's so different from a hit and run that I'm not even sure where the logical con…

That it can't be assumed to be a fait accompli that "negligence" or vehicular homicide is involved in the scenario of anyone leaving the scene of an accident.

Re: Seth Vidal, creator of yum, killed in hit and run accident

#414

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let me paint you a picture - an accurate picture, as agreed by both parties in a court of law. Whilst I did not witness the incident, I was an EMS responder. And whilst this did not end in a death, there are many a parallel. A young man, in a hurry, changes his plans, and driving. He pulls in to an old fire station, turned scout hall, where some boy scouts are having a meeting. In the courtyard that was the engine ap…

Sorry, I don't see how this is relevant. Kemp struck Seth with his car, killing him, and ran away. That is a black and white issue, he hit someone minding their own business and ran without taking responsibility, turning his accident into a crime. The situation you describe is about an altercation between parties that results in injury. It's so different from a hit and run that I'm not even sure where the logical con…

That it can't be assumed to be a fait accompli that "negligence" or vehicular homicide is involved in the scenario of anyone leaving the scene of an accident.

Re: Seth Vidal, creator of yum, killed in hit and run accident

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Bikes injure pedestrians fairly often. My understanding is they rarely kill (though I'm happy to defer on either to someone bringing actual statistics to the table).

They don't, you need higher speeds for that (freak accidents don't count). Source: the lack of bicycle-caused deaths in the Netherlands.

Well, apparently they do occasionally (though you'd probably be correct in labeling it a "freak accident"):

http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/no-jail-for-cyclist-c...

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