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Thursday, August 2, 2012

Booze / Life Trending Now: Hit-and-Runaways

Posted by David Schmader on Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:35 AM

Last night in Tukwila, as reported by KIRO:

Police said a drunken driving suspect crashed his SUV through a yard near Tukwila and then tried to run away.

Investigators said the SUV missed a curve, flew over a parked car and truck and ended up down an embankment in the 12400 block of 64th Avenue South.

Witnesses said despite the shattering impact, the injured driver tried to run. "We had to chase him down the road, like a block, while on the phone with the dispatch, because he was still running,” said Travis Jones.

Meanwhile in Florida, a proactive cell-phone-haver recorded this:

Who's next????

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A friend of mine had her car totaled last night by a hit and run driver. Fortunately he jacked up his own car pretty good and broke down half a block away. She was parked and safe inside so no one was hurt.

It was funny because when I was in college, the exact same thing happened to me.

Posted by Matt from Denver on August 2, 2012 at 12:18 PM

i mean hopefully they called the cops before they started recording.

Posted by Evildc on August 2, 2012 at 1:11 PM

@ 2, if you watch you'll see they were recording the drunk driver even before he caused a collision, and there's a break in the video right after the wreck. So it's possible that he stopped recording, called the cops, then resumed.

Posted by Matt from Denver on August 2, 2012 at 1:28 PM

Don't make douchey videos. Turn the damn phone 90 degrees so it doesn't look stupid.

Posted by Weekilter on August 3, 2012 at 6:01 AM