One-Of-A-Kind Hit And Run
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:28 pm
N.J. Stunned By One-Of-A-Kind Hit And Run
Victim Ends Up Tangled On Rogue Driver's Roof Rack, Gets Carried For Miles And Survives
Man Hit So Hard He Was Knocked Out Of His Shoes
WOODBRIDGE, N.J. (CBS) ― As hit-and-run incidents go the one that happened Sunday morning was one of the strangest you'll hear about.
Witnesses told police a minivan hit a pedestrian so hard it knocked him out of his shoes, up into the air and onto the very roof of the vehicle that hit him. He apparently got tangled in the roof rack and rode for an extraordinary distance.
The incident happened just after 3:30 a.m. Sunday morning on Route 1's southbound lanes. It was a sound that caught people's attention and then a sight they'll never forget. Time-lapse video shows a minivan traveling all the way to the Route 9 cut-off and then south into Edison and off the highway onto local streets with the injured man on the roof.
In real time the trip took five to seven minutes. The victim probably rolled off when the van made a hard left. Remember, it's before dawn Easter morning and the people in the Edison neighborhood awoke to the sound of crackling police radios and the site of police lights.
Police are looking for that late-model red minivan with the roof rack on top, one headlight out and front-end body damage. The good news is that the victim, 29-year-old Cesar Arrendondo, is recovering from his injuries at Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center.
The people CBS 2 HD spoke with seemed generally flabbergasted by the entire incident.
"The gentleman was hit, was thrown up over the windshield and gets caught in the roof rack? How do you not know?" Bill Nagy said.
Added Charlene Brown: "They didn't find him at 3 o'clock in the morning, 25 degrees out. He could've died laying there right on the corner. I could've come out in the morning to get the paper and found him dead. It's frightening."
One woman did her best to sum up the wild incident.
"How could you not know?" resident Terri Krutz said. "You know what I'm saying? There's all the blood, all the blood. It's crazy."
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Victim Ends Up Tangled On Rogue Driver's Roof Rack, Gets Carried For Miles And Survives
Man Hit So Hard He Was Knocked Out Of His Shoes
WOODBRIDGE, N.J. (CBS) ― As hit-and-run incidents go the one that happened Sunday morning was one of the strangest you'll hear about.
Witnesses told police a minivan hit a pedestrian so hard it knocked him out of his shoes, up into the air and onto the very roof of the vehicle that hit him. He apparently got tangled in the roof rack and rode for an extraordinary distance.
The incident happened just after 3:30 a.m. Sunday morning on Route 1's southbound lanes. It was a sound that caught people's attention and then a sight they'll never forget. Time-lapse video shows a minivan traveling all the way to the Route 9 cut-off and then south into Edison and off the highway onto local streets with the injured man on the roof.
In real time the trip took five to seven minutes. The victim probably rolled off when the van made a hard left. Remember, it's before dawn Easter morning and the people in the Edison neighborhood awoke to the sound of crackling police radios and the site of police lights.
Police are looking for that late-model red minivan with the roof rack on top, one headlight out and front-end body damage. The good news is that the victim, 29-year-old Cesar Arrendondo, is recovering from his injuries at Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center.
The people CBS 2 HD spoke with seemed generally flabbergasted by the entire incident.
"The gentleman was hit, was thrown up over the windshield and gets caught in the roof rack? How do you not know?" Bill Nagy said.
Added Charlene Brown: "They didn't find him at 3 o'clock in the morning, 25 degrees out. He could've died laying there right on the corner. I could've come out in the morning to get the paper and found him dead. It's frightening."
One woman did her best to sum up the wild incident.
"How could you not know?" resident Terri Krutz said. "You know what I'm saying? There's all the blood, all the blood. It's crazy."
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