http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/12/11/murder-by-car-now-an-accident/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/12/11/murder-by-car-now-an-accident/comment-page-1/#comment-60435 Teleman Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:34:46 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=5118#comment-60435 If you've ever read the book The Imortal Class there is a bike messenger that gets murdered by an angry driver, and the only reason that this completley intentional homicide with multiple witnesses got taken to court and the killer convicted was because the biker had managed to grab the licence plate off of the car as he got drug under. If you’ve ever read the book The Imortal Class there is a bike messenger that gets murdered by an angry driver, and the only reason that this completley intentional homicide with multiple witnesses got taken to court and the killer convicted was because the biker had managed to grab the licence plate off of the car as he got drug under.

]]> http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/12/11/murder-by-car-now-an-accident/comment-page-1/#comment-60348 Alec Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:34:57 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=5118#comment-60348 This doesn't surprise me, though it's tragic. A large number of single car automobile "accidents" (of the non-homicidal variety) are suicides-by-car; if we were to label them as such and not as "accidents", it would force some of us to think sobering thoughts about our society, and it's just less messy to sweep it under the rug. This doesn’t surprise me, though it’s tragic. A large number of single car automobile “accidents” (of the non-homicidal variety) are suicides-by-car; if we were to label them as such and not as “accidents”, it would force some of us to think sobering thoughts about our society, and it’s just less messy to sweep it under the rug.

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