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Originally posted by: MAME
he was jaywalking right?

my guess is when he started walking it was red for the cars coming at him...then it switches and the cars coming down stop as it turns yellow then red...

the car coming from the right probably saw it turn green and sped up while the guy coming from the bottom saw it turn yellow and thought he could make it...
 
Car goes airborne, lands on pedestrian in intersection

DAYTON | Doctors revived a man Sunday just hours after medics pronounced him dead on the scene of a car crash, police officials said.

Dayton Police Sgt. Charles Hurley said Scott Tegtmeyer was walking in the intersection of Third Street and Edwin C. Moses Boulevard at 12:40 p.m. when a Chrysler PT Cruiser ran a red light, struck a Subaru sports utility vehicle and sent it into the air.

The Subaru landed upside down on Tegtmeyer and dragged him several feet across the intersection, Hurley said. Tegtmeyer, bloodied and surrounded by shattered glass, was pronounced dead on the scene, but he suddenly started breathing while in transit with paramedics. By 3 p.m., doctors had fully resuscitated him.

On Sunday evening, he was in the Miami Valley Hospital Intensive Care Unit.

Neither of the female drivers of the vehicles involved were carrying passengers. The woman driving the Subaru was transported to Miami Valley Hospital. Information on the condition of the driver of the PT Cruiser was not available. Hurley said police talked to eight witnesses. He also said it is possible a camera mounted high above the intersection captured the crash.

Dayton police reconstructionists, trained at putting clues together after crashes, were on the scene with digital cameras and measuring devices. The flipped Subaru showed noticeable crash damage on the left body panel. Ten yards away, the customized P.T. Cruiser with a "AAA" sticker on the back of its tinted windows showed damage to its front end.

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VICTIM NEVER DECLARED DEAD, OR REVIVED, FIRE OFFICIAL SAYS
Author: Cathy Mong cmong@DaytonDailyNews.com Date: May 25, 2004 Publication: Dayton Daily News (OH) Page Number: A1 Word Count: 527


DAYTON - Dayton Fire Department officials Monday said a pedestrian struck Sunday by an SUV at Edwin C. Moses Boulevard and West Third Street was never declared dead by medics nor later revived, as police reported.

"According to our medic crew's report, he was never dead," Assistant Fire Chief John Moore said. "His respirations never stopped and his heartbeat never stopped."

The man, Scott Tegtmeyer, 42, remained in serious condition Monday at Miami Valley


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Well, I just emailed my cousin with the title: Dayton has great drivers.

He lives in Miamisburg or whatever and my Aunt lives in BeaverCreek, but it's all in the Dayton area.
 
that happened to us once, no pedestrians getting hit but a mustang ran a red light and hit some 4 door compact and sent it into the air spinning, it landed on top of the car sitting at the intersection waiting for the light, then slid off the side of the car, My friend and I were the third car down from the one that got landed on, watching the movie really took me back, fortunately in the accident that I saw, no one was hurt.
 
Originally posted by: virtueixi
The guy was partly at fault for Jwalking. The PT ran the light. The SUV was the only one not at fault.


If I was driving the SUV, i surely wouldn't have entered the intersection if a ped was in the cross walk. It's the responsibility of every driver to make sure that the intersection is safe before entering.
 
That's horrible. I hope that guy gets better and that the person driving the PT cruiser is held accountable for his actions.


: ) Amanda
 
Originally posted by: froke
Originally posted by: virtueixi
The guy was partly at fault for Jwalking. The PT ran the light. The SUV was the only one not at fault.


If I was driving the SUV, i surely wouldn't have entered the intersection if a ped was in the cross walk. It's the responsibility of every driver to make sure that the intersection is safe before entering.

You know, I feel bad that the guy got all kinds of fvcked up, but if he was crossing against the signal then he got what was coming to him. I can't tell you how many times a day I see these 2 legged fvcking animals walking around thinking they can just run out in the street anytime they feel like it and not face the consequences. I have often felt like taggin a few of these jerkofss with my car, not really to injure them, but maybe clip them with a mirror and leave a nice bruise. Maybe then they'd think before just stepping in the way of moving vehicles expecting them to yield the right of way.
 
Originally posted by: MrDingleDangle
Originally posted by: MAME
he was jaywalking right?

my guess is when he started walking it was red for the cars coming at him...then it switches and the cars coming down stop as it turns yellow then red...

the car coming from the right probably saw it turn green and sped up while the guy coming from the bottom saw it turn yellow and thought he could make it...

Nope, the light was red for 28 seconds when the Cruiser entered the intersection. It definitely didn't take the guy 28 seconds to get across the street. I just don't understand why he wasn't paying attention to the traffic that was coming toward him if he was crossing illegally. Still, I think the Cruiser is mostly at fault. If it hadn't hit the Subaru, the driver would have at least been able to slam on his breaks and yell obscenities at the pedestrian.
 
Originally posted by: notfred
4.4k/sec, no thanks.


182k/sec 😛


Holy sh1t... pedestrian has bad luck. Too bad he didnt dive out of the way in the other direction, prob would have only broken his legs then.
 
Originally posted by: slick230
I can't tell you how many times a day I see these 2 legged fvcking animals walking around thinking they can just run out in the street anytime they feel like it and not face the consequences. I have often felt like taggin a few of these jerkofss with my car, not really to injure them, but maybe clip them with a mirror and leave a nice bruise. Maybe then they'd think before just stepping in the way of moving vehicles expecting them to yield the right of way.
During driver's ed, our instructor told us of a time when a kid decided to see just how close he could get to a pedestrian without actually clipping him. He's now paying the pedestrian's medical bills for the rest of his life...
 
That PT cruiser was FLYING...frankly, I'm surprised the pedestrian survived it.

Wasn't too surprised to see the SUV flip over 😛
 
Originally posted by: jagec
That PT cruiser was FLYING...frankly, I'm surprised the pedestrian survived it.

Wasn't too surprised to see the SUV flip over 😛
It was a wagon g'damnit. Looks like a Forrester. People need to learn what an SUV really is. :|
 
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