Hit...and Run

Several years ago, I hit a pedestrian with my car.  Thankfully, she was not injured beyond a few bruises (that did not prevent her from suing me).  But having been through the awful moment when you realize you have struck someone, I cannot conceive of the person who left a 27-year-old jogger for dead in our Presidio in San Francisco.  The jogger was wearing an ipod, and it was darkish dawn, so initially it might not even have been the driver's fault -- as the cop comforted me when mine occurred, "that's why we call it an accident." But in the blink of an eye, that driver became a killer (Ashlyn Dyer, the jogger, died several days later).  How does that happen?  Was the driver obviously bad before this, or was this an everyday person who showed an evil inner soul for the first time?

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[Troy Carpenter]

I have a theory on how Dyer may have been hit. Investigators think she heard the vehicle coming because she was hit on the side as if she were turning to see what was coming at her. I don't see that as being likely at all. It is possible for some crazy person to just hit a jogger from behind as they jog on the side of the road but I have another idea. I think Dyer was jogging along a very unbusy street that she was familiar with. She was listening to her Ipod and probably couldn't hear her surroundings very well if at all. I think she may have come to a point in the road where she wanted to cross. Because she had on her Ipod, she didn't hear a vehicle coming up behind her and she's probably not used to seeing very many cars (especially at that hour), so she probably just darted out into the street. The driver didn't leave skid marks. I think this is because she darted out in front of him/her so quickly that the person didn't have a chance to apply the brakes. I'm going to guess this was a good size vehicle for a few reasons. The area of her injuries from the side the vehicle impacted her. The fact that she didn't flip over the vehicle but instead got thrown off the side of the road into a ditch. At the hours between 6:45am and 7:00am it would have been just light enough to see. There wouldn't be low visibility unless the driver was driving East and was blinded by the sun. The chances are very good that the driver knew he/she hit someone because Dyer had pieces of glass found on her. Probably from the headlights of the vehicle or maybe even the windshield. The driver probably got scared and kept driving. Also reports say they found green paint on her clothes. This tells me the vehicle was probably a big green something.

[tovorinok]

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