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Not quite the same situation, but I was getting a ride home with a mate and his son after a movie last year, and coming up a street in central Welly while talking about random stuff he suddenly had to swerve to avoid what he thought looked like one of those big soft toys like you win at a fair (I didn't see what he was swerving from), but carried on driving in a "well that was weird... what were we talking about" kind of way.

Turns out it was a person who had been hit not long before us and someone else pulled over to check not long after us (as advised by the police we both gave statements to, after they found his details via number plate on CCTV). So while we didn't hit them (though was close), I can easily see how the unexpected can rattle your brain to carry on in "I don't know how to deal with this, just move forward" ways.



EDIT: was this incident for the record...

www.nzherald.co.nz

Police identify car that fatally hit Wellington person

Police said the driver may not know they hit someone.
www.nzherald.co.nz www.nzherald.co.nz
 
WA Warrior said:
Yeah I know, I’m not defending them I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt because the alternative is 3 evil people decided to carry on after running someone over, absolute madness.
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Yeah, sorry, not suggesting you are defending them. I meant there is no way they wouldn't have known they had hit something and something that big I'm pulling over to check my car out at the very least.
 
Inruin said:
Yeah, sorry, not suggesting you are defending them. I meant there is no way they wouldn't have known they had hit something and something that big I'm pulling over to check my car out at the very least.
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Nah I didn’t take it that way, I’m just trying hard not to believe there are such wicked people around you know.
Yeah exactly, you would check right.
 
WA Warrior said:
Nah I didn’t take it that way, I’m just trying hard not to believe there are such wicked people around you know.
Yeah exactly, you would check right.
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Rather than wicked people we are more likely talking about callous self interested types of people of which in the age of the interweb there are millions.

More than likely these folk thought rather than go to court and potentially risk incarceration for no more than driving down the road, they will just keep going.

The chances of three drivers not identifying a body in the road is zero.
At that hour often times drivers have had a tipple or a toke or a snort, another reason to drive on and not be done for manslaughter.
 
FormerlyJamesW said:
Yip.

Bit of a strange one eh? You reckon he did it?
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Yeah I do. The strangle marks consistent with his belt on her neck is just one piece of evidence that’s strange, along with the knot from the rope she supposedly hung herself not sliding down the balustrade with the tightnesses of the knot in consideration to her weight hanging and the rope too long. Some massive inconsistencies
 
Noitall said:
Yeah I do. The strangle marks consistent with his belt on her neck is just one piece of evidence that’s strange, along with the knot from the rope she supposedly hung herself not sliding down the balustrade with the tightnesses of the knot in consideration to her weight hanging and the rope too long. Some massive inconsistencies
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For sure.

Plus he kept changing his story, too.

The problem with these cases is that, when you put them in front of a jury you have to connect the dots very well. Can't convict on vibes alone.

I'm really curious why they didn't drug test him and subpeona his phone immediately. Although, my suspicion is that the law ties the polices hands in this regard.
 
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