Cops say the person driving the van fled the scene — but was later caught and charged with felony hit-and-run.

The driver ran a red light and fled the scene.

Strange how an article can go from “accident” to “felony hit and run”.

Bonus question: If the driver had not fled the scene, would it haven been considered a felony or a misdemeanor or a red light traffic ticket?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/09/nick-adenhart-angels-pitc_n_185133.html

“22-year-old Los Angeles Angels rookie pitcher Nick Adenhart was killed in a hit-and-run car accident early Thursday morning — just hours after pitching six shutout innings against the Oakland A’s”

Something’s fishy about this. I visited several cities in China in 2001, and my impression was that industry was more responsible for pollution than cars. For starters, the richest (i.e. most cars) city I visited (Shanghai) had the best air. Beijing’s air was bad, but the worst was Xi’an (in the “midwest”) where the air was appallingly bad. I grew up in an industrial town and I was very familiar with that smell. I suspect what’s really going on is that it’s more expedient to control individual drivers in China than factories. I’ve heard the smog in the really industrial areas in the south is unheard of.

Pray for a special session next week…time’s running out.

We need a State Senate that will Passover inaction which would result in mass transit riders getting nailed to the cross so that the Ravitch Plan (or something similar) can have a resurrection