Meet Juan Salazar, the Man Who Allegedly Ran Over a 7-Year-Old Girl and Drove Away

christopherdavis2009

Well, lets see.... It is acceptable in America to kill a fully developed, fully viable 9 month old child in the womb of its mother by literally ripping it limb from limb and crushing its skull with forceps, and yet you are surprised when someone commits a post birth abortion on a 7 year old.

America has no sanctity of human life and we see the fruits of Roe v. Wade on a daily basis.

scottindallas topcommenter

@christopherdavis2009 Fortunately those are quite rare. Sadly, GOP policies will likely lead to more of them. The GOP had a partial birth abortion ban, but political operatives insisted there be no exemption for the life or health of the mother. They did this so a court would throw out the law; and the GOP could crow about activist judges. So, blame that one on the GOP, cause the Dems voted for the bill.

TheCredibleHulk topcommenter

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@christopherdavis2009 Most human life is relatively worthless., Quite ably demonstrated by your post, here, I might add.

steve.sandwich

Quite a few assumptions about this guy. Was the kid attended to by a parent? Is there red-light cam video? Witnesses? So many questions a journalist might want to slip into an article.

ObserverHatesFacts

@steve.sandwich The article very clearly states that the child was walking with her grandmother. Which you may have known if you actually read it.

blamewhitey

"And while we're thinking about punishing people, maybe we should lock up whoever designed that stretch of Northwest Highway." Eric Nicholson, being a white-guilter "journalist", will always find a way to BLAME WHITEY.

timdickey

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@blamewhitey No, blamewhitey, Eric Nicholson is right on target here. That stretch of Northwest Highway (a state highway, under the control of TxDOT), which cuts off the third largest park in the city from the tens of thousands of Dallas residents who live next to it, has no sidewalks, six lanes of fast-moving traffic, and efforts by the community to have a pedestrian bridge built have been thwarted by TxDOT and various members of the Dallas City Council for 20 years. The only effort to do anything about it was made by Councilman Steve Salazar, who got a $400,000 engineering and design study approved. The study was done, money was spent, then....nothing. Not even an attempt to get bridge funding on the next Bond package.

Chuck_Schick

@timdickey @blamewhitey Seems like if you live nearby and don't have a car, there's no getting across NW Highway. No wonder Gov. Romney is so down on the 47 percent.

timdickey

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@Chuck_Schick @blamewhitey Who wants to walk half a mile to a crosswalk, then back another half mile, just to get across the street to the park?

TheCredibleHulk topcommenter

@blamewhitey Why is it that you assume that WHITEY designed this "stretch of NW Highway."?

ozonelarryb

Or a cop who runs down a kid on a bike, blames the dark streetlights that he was too lazy and stupid to report; then as punishment he gets reassigned to the Intelligence Division.

Who is writing this shit? Kafka, Orwell, Carroll, Hiaasen????

holmantx topcommenter

If it's the same guy, he has priors (DWI and fleeing). If he had been drinking, he would need time to get it out of his system. As it is, he can claim he panicked.

albert.finney000

@holmantx

"(DWI and fleeing)"

Probably did a whole 6 months.

pjcmota

@Dallas_Observer why would I wanna meet such an irresponsible man?

ObserverHatesFacts

Nothing special about it. Plenty of people just like him who have no respect for life.

Chuck_Schick

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There's no excusing a hit-and-run driver, but there would be fewer accidents on that part of Northwest Highway if pedestrians used the crosswalk a couple blocks to the east (at Community Drive) rather than jaywalking.

Hannibal_Lecter

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@Chuck_Schick Last week I was driving down Ross and stopped for a family stranded in the middle of the street in a marked crosswalk. About a dozen cars went around me, including several that had been in the lane behind me and were probably really pissed that anyone would bother to stop for pedestrians.

So much for crosswalks....

Daniel

@Hannibal_Lecter @Chuck_Schick You would have to live in Dallas for all of about three weeks before realizing that marked crosswalks are useless here. If anything, they create a hazard by giving more naive and credulous pedestrians a false sense of security. I personally don't trust them even in "traffic-calmed" areas like downtown or Lower Greenville.

Daniel

@Chuck_Schick @Hannibal_Lecter Ideal world, thy name is not Dallas.

monstruss

@ObserverHatesFacts @Daniel @Hannibal_Lecter @Chuck_Schick Greenville Avenue is actually much easier to walk around and cross the street now that they've finished construction. You'd know that if you actually checked it out instead of running your mouth.

ObserverHatesFacts

@Daniel @Hannibal_Lecter @Chuck_Schick No shit right? Greenville is probably the worst-- though I haven't really tried crossing it post construction.

I will stop to let people cross and meanwhile traffic behind me will try to swerve around.

Chuck_Schick

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@Daniel @Hannibal_Lecter Maybe Dwaine Caraway should start a pro-crosswalk campaign! Or perhaps I'm just naive in thinking they've been around for a century or so and are the best way for drivers and pedestrians to co-exist.

James080

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@Chuck_Schick Surely Eric would have made mention in his item if the grandmother was jaywalking her granddaughter across a busy street at night? He implies that the design of the road is unsafe, but 8:00 PM is late dusk to dark just now, and jaywalking on NW is dangerous anywhere and at anytime. There's no excuse for a hit and run, but if they were jaywalking, grandmother should face child endangerment charges.

Chuck_Schick

@James080 I drove through the intersection this morning (2700 block of W. Northwest Highway) - no crosswalks there, but a memorial is up in the median, where hundreds of pedestrians cross six lanes of traffic. Perhaps the city could build a pedestrian bridge, but a better solution is to walk two blocks east and cross at Community Drive.

Brian Nesbitt

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@James080 @Chuck_Schick

>>Surely Eric would have made mention in his item...<<

not certain if she was or not, but clearly you haven't seen the quality of the writing by eric if you could type that sentence with a straight face.

James080

@Brian Nesbitt @Chuck_Schick It was a rhetorical question, because its pretty clear to me Eric just regurgitated what he read in the Monday Dallas Morning News without any independent research of his own.