78 Year Old Hit-and-Run Victim Left for Dead

78 Year Old Hit-and-Run Victim Left for Dead - Video

Allie @ Gone Hollywood | Friday, June 6, 2008

This story is just so disturbing, I had to post it.

A 78-year-old man is tossed like a rag doll by a hit-and-run driver and lies motionless on a busy city street as car after car goes by.

Nobody did anything to help him!!

78 Year Old Hit-and-Run Victim Left for Dead - Photo

Pedestrians gawk but do nothing. One driver stops briefly but then pulls back into traffic. A man on a scooter slowly circles the victim before zipping away.

The chilling scene - captured on video by a streetlight surveillance camera - has touched off a round of soul-searching in Hartford, with the capital city’s biggest newspaper blaring “SO INHUMANE” on the front page and the police chief lamenting: “We no longer have a moral compass.”

“We have no regard for each other,” said Chief Daryl Roberts, who released the video this week in hopes of making an arrest in the daylight accident last Friday that left Angel Arce Torres in critical condition.

The hit-and-run took place about 5:45 p.m. in a working-class neighborhood close to downtown in this city of 125,000.

In the video, Torres walks in the two-way street just blocks from the state Capitol after buying milk at a grocery. A tan Toyota and a dark Honda that is apparently chasing it cross the center line, and Torres is struck by the Honda. Both cars then dart down a side street.

You know, it’s bad enough that two apparent imbeciles were racing on the wrong side of the street, which resulted in hitting an elderly man, and then fled the scene. Yes, that’s horrible.

The worst part, however, is that NOBODY DID ANYTHING TO HELP HIM, ONLY GAWKED!

Absolutely disgusting! What’s wrong with people?

source: Bystanders Ignore Hit-and-Run Victim [associated press]