[nagdu] Guide dog user run down

Pickrell, Rebecca M (IS) REBECCA.PICKRELL at ngc.com
Wed Dec 9 20:50:28 UTC 2009


Might also be useful to send footage to the schools when training/guiding issues pop up. 
I don't think anybody'd steal the camera. They're tiny now and people take video and still pictures with cell phones all the time now. 


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From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of d m gina
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 2:50 PM
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Subject: Re: [nagdu] Guide dog user run down

Hi there,
I would be afraid someone would steal the camera from the dogs collar.
An interesting idea.

Original message:
> Thanks for posting this article.  This is truly a terrible situation.

> I saw a product, in a magazine, it is a video camera that is quite small
> andyou can clip it to many different places.  One place they advertised was
> a dog's collar.  My thought was that this device may be well served for
> vehicle violations/accidents, as well as access issues.  It amazes me how
> stories get so convoluted.  My recent incident at a Marble Slab, in Tampa,
> has proven such.  I'd love to have this video camera hooked to my dog.

> Merry
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
> To: <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 9:38 AM
> Subject: [nagdu] Guide dog user run down


> Someone mentioned this the other day, and I looked up the article.  A man
> is going about his business, and gets run down by some fool, who's
> probably drunk, or texting, or just plain never considered that there
> might be an actual pedestrian in the crosswalk.  Imagine that.
> Anyway, I've pasted the article below.  I hope Tom survives.  And I hope
> the driver doesn't just get off.  White cane laws or not, people still
> sometimes figure a blind guy was in the wrong, just by being out walking
> around.

> Update: Blind man run over at busy intersection, in critical condition
> Update 4:50 P.M.

> Update 4:50 P.M.
> By:
> Gretchen Schlosser,
> West Central Tribune

> WILLMAR — A 58-year-old Willmar man, who is blind, is in critical
> condition after he was run over by a vehicle and sustained chest injuries
> around 6 p.m.
> Monday at the intersection of First Street and 19th Avenue.

> According to police reports, Thomas Dennis Sykora was walking south,
> crossing 19th Avenue in the crosswalk. He was using white cane and a guide
> dog while
> wearing a bright yellow jacket with reflective tape, when he was struck
> and run over by a 2002 Ford pickup driven by Gary Lee Mattson, 55, of
> Willmar.
> Mattson allegedly left the scene, but was located later by law enforcement
> officers.

> Sykora was taken by Willmar Ambulance to Rice Memorial Hospital and was
> later airlifted to St. Cloud Hospital, where he was listed in critical
> condition
> as of 4:45 p.m. Tuesday. A witness reported seeing the vehicle stop, pull
> out to turn and then running over the pedestrian.

> A Kandiyohi County Sheriff's deputy was immediately on the scene and
> provided medical assistance to Sykora.

> The incident remains under investigation by the Willmar Police Department.

> Sykora's guide dog, Nectar, did not appear to be injured in the incident.



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