Well, this is godawful:
DENVER — A pregnant woman was run over in Denver’s Stapleton neighborhood Thursday and the woman’s baby did not survive.
The accident was reported at 5:02 p.m., at the intersection of East 29th Avenue and Central Park Boulevard, according to Detective John White. The driver did not stop.
Shawn Mercer told 7NEWS he was in his home when he heard a loud thump and then a woman moaning in pain outside. Mercer said he found the woman lying in the middle of the street.
The 27-year-old woman told Mercer that she was 34 weeks pregnant.
Mercer’s girlfriend, a registered nurse, tried to provide immediate care.
“She was basically in tears, and told me, ‘I’m scared,'” said Mercer. “And, ‘I’m afraid she’s going to lose the baby.’ You could see car marks on her stomach.”
Denver police said the woman was walking in the crosswalk when she was hit.
The woman was rushed to Denver Health Medical Center where she was listed in serious condition with significant internal injuries. Doctors were forced to delivered her baby but the infant did not survive.
The only description of the hit-and-run vehicle is that it was a dark colored sport utility vehicle or pickup last seen heading south on Central Park Boulevard.
What an awful tragedy. Hopefully the driver’s conscience compels him or her to turn him/herself in.
Meanwhile, I suspect that this will add momentum to the local outcry for adding more stoplights along Central Park Boulevard, which is only going to get busier once it gets its own stimulus-funded I-70 exit. The wisdom of turning Central Park Boulevard, which runs smack through the middle of a neighborhood whose “walkability” is a prime selling point, into a major southbound surface thoroughfare for traffic coming off the 70, is debatable to say the least — though I’m pretty sure that ship has already sailed, and the new exit is coming whether folks like it or not.
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I had the bad luck of reading this right after a link from Fark about a New York teacher who miscarried after getting elbowed in the stomach by a student. Very sad.
It bothers me when the media treats these kinds of incidents as “accidents”. I’m not sure what it is about motor cars that make people go crazy, but such seems to be the reality…
What idiot would turn themselves in because they feel guilty? I feel like crap because I killed someone’s unborn baby, I guess I’ll turn myself in and go to jail now. That will make everything better.
What idiot would turn themselves in because they feel guilty?
Somebody with a consience and/or a moral sense?
I would far rather have a society made up of people who were willing to turn themselves in, than a society of people who feel the way Sandy does.
Somebody with a conscience and/or moral sense wouldn’t have fled the scene when they struck a person with their car.
What good does turning oneself in do at this point? If they have the guilty conscience to turn themselves in, then they should have the sense NOT to turn themselves in for jail and to become a better person going forward. Only true morons would ask to be punished by humans, rather than ask for penance, change they life, and face judgement by the good lord almighty! Do I hear an Amen?
Terrible tragedy.
But, Sandy does have a point.