Pedestrian hit, dragged for 17 miles

[BushJ311 5,000+ posts]

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http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nydrag0212,0,3541331.story

Police are questioning a driver in Brighton Beach after it was discovered he had struck a pedestrian -- 17 miles away, near Shea Stadium -- and unknowingly dragged him into Brooklyn.

The bizarre incident started in Corona at about 6:15 a.m. when the driver of a sport utility vehicle called 911 to report he believed he had just struck someone at 51st Avenue and 108th Street.

Officers who responded found no evidence of an accident, but about 7 a.m. a pedestrian in Brighton Beach saw a dead man under a 1998 Chevy minivan. The passerby told the driver to stop, and police were called.

When officers were dispatched to the area of Neptune Avenue and Brighton 10th Terrace, they found the dead man under the van, police said.

The driver, Manuel Lituma, 52, was being questioned, but it appears he did not realize he had hit the man back in Corona and dragged him under the van onto the Grand Central Parkway, south onto the Van Wyck Expressway and then west into Brooklyn, police said.

"The victim is struck by the first car," Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said. "That driver reports that he believes he struck somebody, but apparently right after he strikes the individual the body is hit again by another vehicle and dragged a total of what appears to be 17 miles until eventually that driver stops."

Police said the driver did not see the initial accident, but that when he saw several other cars swerve he thought those drivers were trying to avoid a pothole, not a body.

Kelly said the driver "did stop once during his trip, he reported, but he didn't see anything unusual and got back in the car."

The commissioner said "the body was significantly damaged" and police were retracing the route to try to find body parts.

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[gqjeff 10+ year member]

****

 

[01 S 10 10+ year member]

wow, thats terrible. how could he have not known he hit something that large.

 

[99grandprixGT 5,000+ posts]

damn he had his system bumpin he could not hear the dead body dragging

 

[mr.michael 10+ year member]

o ****

 

[boltpride 10+ year member]

17 miles?! WTF

 

[Shinju 10+ year member]

wow

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Police are questioning a driver in Brighton Beach after it was discovered he had struck a pedestrian -- 17 miles away, near Shea Stadium -- and unknowingly dragged him into Brooklyn.

I thought that's how everybody ended up in Brooklyn...oh, people go there willingly? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[BushJ311 5,000+ posts]

They will have fun tracing his path to look for the body parts.

 

[groundpound4200 5,000+ posts]

]The commissioner said "the body was significantly damaged" and police were retracing the route to try to find body parts.

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[Captain_Ahab 5,000+ posts]

Can you imagine what 17 miles of asphalt would do to a body? Wow......

Pics would be cool.

 

[BASSMEKANIK 10+ year member]

I thought that's how everybody ended up in Brooklyn...oh, people go there willingly? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

most people in brooklyn are dragged behind cars not under... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[bassplayer5504 10+ year member]

I even realize when I accidently run over roadkill. How can you not realize you have hit a full grown human. Even if you THINK you hit someone, wouldn't you stop?!

 

[rollerdj 10+ year member]

Can you imagine what 17 miles of asphalt would do to a body? Wow......
Pics would be cool.

They'll be on rotten . com sooner or later. They allways have shit like that.

 

[wu36ca 10+ year member]

I consider him lucky. He got a free ride. Have you paid cab fair in NYC? It aint cheap... I am so going to hell.