[nagdu] Blind Reverend And Guide Dog Victim Of Hit-Run

[rhonda cruz]

 hi i heard about this from my dad.
 it is really sad. i hope the lady gets jail time for this.
 
 i hope the team is all right.


On Sep 22, 2013, at 9:48 AM, Sean Robertson wrote:

> O know I'm so sorry to here this.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ginger Kutsch" <GingerKutsch at yahoo.com>
> To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 12:40 PM
> Subject: [nagdu] Blind Reverend And Guide Dog Victim Of Hit-Run
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>> Blind Reverend And Guide Dog Victim Of Hit-Run
>> 
>> Sweet Jesus. Down in East Palo Alto, Albert Macklin, a Reverend of the New
>> Sweet Home Church of God in Christ who also happens to be blind, was hit
>> while crossing the street at around 8 PM. Also hit? His helpful guide dog.
>> 
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>> The suspect, who got out of her car to see if he was okay, saw that Macklin
>> couldn't see and, well, decided to bolt. KTVU has more:
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>> The driver had backed into him while he was still in the middle of the
>> intersection, hitting his left side, and pinning Eaton under the trunk of
>> the vehicle.
>> 
>> Afterward, police said the driver stopped and asked the minister if he was
>> OK and said she was going to move her car, but drove away from the scene
>> instead.
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>> "I was waiting for her maybe thinking she would come toward me, maybe check
>> me out and see if I was ok. But after she got in the car to move the car,
>> she didn't come back at all," said Macklin.
>> 
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>> Although police are going door-to-door to find the woman (description of
>> neither the suspect nor her vehicle are available), the Reverend just wants
>> an apology. "It's a simple courtesy -- the simple fact that you hit
>> somebody," he goes on to tell KTVU. "I didn't have to be blind, but the
>> simple fact that you hit somebody and you didn't stop to take care of the
>> matter as it should have been handled."
>> 
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>> Adding insult to injury, the police took their sweet time writing a report
>> on the incident. Mercury News reports: "Macklin said he called the police
>> and they declined to write up a report Monday night because there were no
>> witnesses. He only got a response after calling Chief Ron Davis the next
>> morning ... Davis confirmed that a report was not written until Tuesday, but
>> said he was waiting for the officers involved to start their evening shift
>> to determine why not."
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>> Both the man of God and his dog didn't suffer any life-threatening injuries.
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>> Video at:
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>> http://sfist.com/2013/09/18/blind_reverend_and_guide_dog_victim.php
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