Because everyone does it he said.
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If you hit some one, intentional or not, double-check their well-being before leaving. Unfortunately common sense doesn’t appear to be common any longer. Case in point? A Boston man admitted on-camera to a TV crew this week he hit a pedestrian with his car and left him for dead. His name? Phocian Fitts. His excuse? “People hit-and-run people all the time.”
Unfortunately, we’re not kidding. This is not The Onion. This is real life. The 23-year-old hit an 80-year-old man at a cross-walk with his jeep, hard enough to send him through the air 20-feet. He was pronounced dead later at the hospital. Could he have survived if Fitts stopped to help? We’ll never know.
“Accidents happen,” Fitts said.
Fitts, who is an Uber driver, said he was on his way to pick up a rider, and wasn’t drinking or on drugs at the time, but did admit he was driving too quick. By his reasoning, he had a green light and honked his horn several times. It was either hit the pedestrian or crash his car into a pole.
I guess he chose to hit the man?
Fitts admitted that he was “scared” and “worried.” Of course, seconds later, he tacked on, “it is what it is.”
WATCH: Hit-and-run suspect held on $10K bail after confessing to Boston 25 News | Boston 25 News
If you hit some one, intentional or not, double-check their well-being before leaving. Unfortunately common sense doesn’t appear to be common any longer. Case in point? A Boston man admitted on-camera to a TV crew this week he hit a pedestrian with his car and left him for dead. His name? Phocian Fitts. His excuse? “People hit-and-run people all the time.”
Unfortunately, we’re not kidding. This is not The Onion. This is real life. The 23-year-old hit an 80-year-old man at a cross-walk with his jeep, hard enough to send him through the air 20-feet. He was pronounced dead later at the hospital. Could he have survived if Fitts stopped to help? We’ll never know.
“Accidents happen,” Fitts said.
Fitts, who is an Uber driver, said he was on his way to pick up a rider, and wasn’t drinking or on drugs at the time, but did admit he was driving too quick. By his reasoning, he had a green light and honked his horn several times. It was either hit the pedestrian or crash his car into a pole.
I guess he chose to hit the man?
Fitts admitted that he was “scared” and “worried.” Of course, seconds later, he tacked on, “it is what it is.”
