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The campaign to run down jaywalkers

2009 Reader Submission
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It all started when I was driving into NCSU to pay for my classes. The intersection was Hillsboro and Pullen the main enterance and it was pouring down rain raining so hard you'd have to take the geese inside or they would die. The rain gutters were having some problems and visability was poor. As I turned into Pullen road and straightened up I saw a flash of white t-shirt and hit the brakes not exactly registering what it was but reacting by blind instinct. Then I heard the meaty sound of flesh hitting metal like a thud but somehow worse. I put the car into park and jumped out which isn't exactly intelligent on my part.

I saw a blond haired girl lying on the asphalt and she was getting soaked. Appearantly her and her friend decided it would be a good idea to run across four lanes of traffic. As luck would have had it a police car several cars behind my car was close enough to it saw the whole thing happen. He gave the citation for jay walking to the girls one girl didn't appear hurt at all had a broken elbow and the one on the ground I thought I'd turned into a cripple had a broken tail bone. The ambulance crew came up and how they got the ambulance in there I'll never know and then the cop was at risk because of how many cars there were on the road and how slipperly it was because of the rain. I used the car to protect the freshman who was down because I had no idea what her injuries were like and if someone clobbered us from behind it might have not made any difference so I prayed that it wouldn't happen at least until someone got her out of the street. Their actions put 3 young men, their lives and my life in danger. The three young men were doing their jobs. I thank the lord for that cop because I forgot my cellphone at home which I knew was foolish but I never had one as a teen and wasn't used to them.

The injuries could have been alot worse both of them could have died on that day. They were freshmen neither of them had a ponco.

I want this story to warn the Freshmen that jay walking can be deadly and that you really should use the signals to help you cross the street or at least ask an upper classman to help you figure out how to get where you need to be or where ever you want to go at least until you get used to college. At 18 you may think nothing can hurt you but it can and did in these girls cases and almost resulted in their deaths.

Then the parents rather than admitting their offspring were irresponsible and setting a good example by taking responsibility or holding their children accountable for their actions threatened to sue me to get out of paying for the damage their offspring did in an action that was ill conceived as it was stupid an action which could have killed them both the only reason they didn't die was because I have Post traumatic stress disorder. Main campus was the other way and food was the other way as well and it would have been a whole lot safer to cross Hillsboro using the signal and then cross once on the other side of the street. Or taken the wolfline so they wouldn't have to get wet it would have taken them around to where ever they wanted to go.

They were rich kids so they could have afforded a fancy rain jacket each of them. It was a cool August day so wouldn't they bundle up or at least wear a sweater. I don't know what made them run out into oncomming cars the incident still haunts me to this very day. After that semester I left NCSU dropped out because I didn't want to go to school with people like this. I try to cooperate with law enforcement and agree with most of what they try to do but I didn't intend to literally participate in the campaign to run down jaywalkers. Looking back on it I think these were the stupidest people I ever ran into but unfortunately they are still in the gene pool but I think their behavior deserves an honorable mention at the very least.

Note:I might be wrong about the year but I know it was about 9 years ago and when it happened I was too spooked to actually think clearly and I didn't know what to do it was a really bad time. I couldn't write it up and even if I could then I wouldn't have known what to do with it if I had. I'm sorry it's late if you decide to accept it.

I know you don't accept tales of people being hit by cars but I really want freshmen to understand how dangerous jaywalking is.

Submitted on 03/09/2009

Submitted by: Katz Heitmann
Reference: 2000 fall semester 2nd day of classes

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Bruce said:
Definitely Toss: Too Common
Thanks, but jaywalking is way too common. We do appreciate the detailed writeup however.


Candi said:
Definitely Toss: Too Common
What Bruce said. If you want to, you could pass this story around to police and traffice safety personnel as a warning. Since you got sued when you clearly weren't at fault, thestellaawards.com might like to hear about this as well.


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