Another Iowa Bicyclist Killed -- Hit and Run

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[Lowrydr]

There are several older trucks running around my area all decked out like that one and are driven by guys over 60 minimum. They have the big rig trucker fever and add all kinds of crap to them.

Will wait to see if it really is his, but know a few people in and around Winterset that have seen this older guy driving it.
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[Davey Sprocket]

I could be and most likely will be completely off on this, but at first blush the pairing seemed odd. Time will tell.

[jwsknk]

So Lowrydr, red neck, white truck, blue ribbon beer?
Is this what comes after mid-life crisis? a souped up pick-em-up truck?

["Bicycle Bill"]

[Lowrydr]

[jwsknk]

Paul McKinney has been charged as the driver in the hit and run death of Mark Grgurich on August 30. An initial appearance was made. KCCI showed the appearance at http://www.kcci.com/video/20905691/

McKinley was charged with leaving the scene of a fatality, concealment of evidence and failure to maintain control. The charges carry a penalty of 7 years in prison.

Also an article in the Register this morning, a neighbor said that the day after the accident, he was out in his garage at 9:30-10:00 that Monday night working on the front end of the truck and had it up on jacks.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090915/NEWS01/909150358

["Bicycle Bill"]

[jwsknk]

I think In Iowa after age 70 you have to go in person every two yeras to renew. They were talking about that on the news last night and what the staff at the renewal station can do.

http://www.kcci.com/news/20921452/detail.html

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[jwsknk]

Update on Lessa
" My life got turned upside down last Friday. I received a late afternoon phone call from a Judge friend of mine who told me that the man who hit me was allowed to come in last Friday and plea to a different Judge prior to the trial and received a $65.00 fine. Of course I got into it with the County Attorney's Office and they are asking that the Judge who allowed the plea to set aside the verdict. I'm waiting impatiently to see what the Judge is going to do. This whole event has been one bad occurance after another. "

[Ken]

70 + whatever; the universal truth though is that more people are killed on the road - drivers and cyclists - by drunks of all ages than by 70+ year olds.

What is needed is for the judiciary to clamp down hard on all drivers who are caught driving whilst drunk.

A recent case in Houston where the mayor's teenage daughter was taken off the road for driving over the limit, refused to take a breath test, was released from custody, the mayor hired the most expensive lawyer in town and the girl has yet to face justice, is an example of society taking a wink-nod view of driving a dangerous vehicle whilst impaired.

The sooner we recognise that driving a vehicle drunk is no different than waving a loaded gun with the safety off, then the sooner we might make our roads safer to walk, cycle and drive over.

By the way, the said mayor is now running for governor, which is fitting because we have a habit here in Texas of electing the brain dead to that position.

[jwsknk]

The then teenage son of wannabe Gov. for life "Braindead" here in Iowa killed a man in a traffic accident several years agou while daddy was Gov. He ended up with a ticket for unsafe passing.

Of course now we are seeing all these poor Paul stories, His wife is in a nursing home, he's 80. blind in his left eye, 20/40 in his right, macular degeneration, a good old boy with a bunch of support you police stickers all over his truck, ...

[Zinger]

My almost 90 year old father who is blind in one eye from macular degeneration was able to get a driver's license after failing his eye test with a note from his eye doctor. This was a few years back and the next year my sisters had a talk with this eye doctor and said no more!! It was to the point that the front bumper on their car was a mass of dings because he couldn't see when to stop when parking. I thank goodness he didn't hit and kill anyone. When is someone in authority finally going to use some common sense in cases like this???
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[jwsknk]

Dark foggy morning in a parking lot:
DES MOINES, Iowa -- A wrongful death lawsuit against a Polk County man in the 2005 death of an Altoona woman may be delayed as prosecutors consider whether to reopen the criminal case.

Justin Pollard, of Altoona, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Annamarie Rittman in the parking lot of a home improvement store in Altoona.

Prosecutors dropped the charge in 2007 after a judge ruled a surveillance tape could not be used at the trial because it was sped up by 30 percent.

The lawyer for Rittman's family says he is not going to pursue the lawsuit until the criminal case has been resolved. Kenneth Butters says the FBI hasn't finished a new analysis of the videotape, which will determine whether prosecutors reopen the criminal case.

Pollard denies being involved in the Rittman's death.

Clear Sunday morning on the open road:
McKinney was charged with leaving the scene of a fatality, concealment of evidence and failure to maintain control. The charges carry a penalty of 7 years in prison.

And you know 7 is probably less than 3, time served, good behavior, health, etc..