Fall from moving van kills teen
Posted February 3rd, 2008 by minortopics | via www.upi.comA 14 year old who attempted to open and shut a slightly ajar car door fell onto the street where several cars ran over her.
Her mother claims she tried to prevent cars from running her over but nobody would stop. I might be skeptical of this, if I hadn’t personally witnessed on several occasions, drivers running over animals when they were clear, visible and within stopping distance. Perhaps these people thought it was an animal, in which case, they should be charged with vehicular homicide. Now, I don’t know all the facts of course and it could very well be that they couldn’t stop in time or they didn’t expect a person to be laying on a busy highway. From this short story though, it appears that the drivers just drove off. Horrible.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Feb. 3 (UPI) — A 14-year-old girl died after falling from a moving van onto a busy Michigan highway where she was struck by several vehicles, it was reported Sunday.
Merida Mateo-Pablo of Grand Rapids, Mich., tried to open and shut her family’s minivan door Saturday night. The momentum of the sliding door pulled her out of the van and on to U.S. 131, WOOD-TV, Grand Rapids, Mich., reported.
Police said the family’s car was traveling 70 mph when she fell out of the van. She was not wearing a seatbelt.