Driver Hits Man - Drives 8 Miles Home - With Man Still Attached To His Car

[matcom]

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A Lorton motorist was charged yesterday with manslaughter after he hit a man with his vehicle on Interstate 95 near the Fairfax County Parkway and dragged his body 81/2 miles before notifying authorities, Fairfax County police said.



Early yesterday, Josuel Galdino, 25, hit Fitsum Gebreegziabher, 27, of Woodbridge along I-95 after Gebreegziabher, who had been driving south, apparently stopped and got out of his Toyota Camry after getting a flat tire, according to a police account.

Galdino struck the rear of the Toyota, apparently pinning Gebreegziabher beneath the front-end suspension of his Mitsubishi Montero, said police, who would not speculate on what time the incident occurred.

Galdino then drove 81/2 to nine miles, to his home in Lorton, before realizing what had happened, police spokesman Sophia Grinnan said.

"That's gruesome," she said. "He drives home and there's a guy still attached to his car."

Aside from manslaughter, Galdino was charged with driving while intoxicated and felony hit-and-run. He is being held without bond at the Fairfax County adult detention center, Grinnan said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17713-2004Feb29.html

[GOPisEvil]

1. Yikes...sounds eerily familar!

...remember the nurse a couple of years ago? Hit a homeless guy, drove home, left him there to die, while she boffed her boyfriend...

[Sparkle]

2. That's pretty sad.

I guess it was at night and no one noticed since the drunken driver didn't.

[supernova]

3. What is wrong with some people?

hitting pedestrians then just driving home like nothing happened. Except you've got a BODY in your windshield. :spank: And did no other drivers notice this phenomenon either?

Meanwhile what's a pedestrian doing trying to cross 8 LANES of 95?!

Gruesome and sick. :scared:

[SmileyBoy]

4. I think that's really horrible and everything. But...

Fitsum Gebreegziabher???

What kind of name is that???

[matcom]

5. Irish?

:spank: Matcom :spank:

[GOPisEvil]

6. Sounds like a Douglas Adams character.

May he RIP. (Doug and Fitsum).

[Dogmudgeon]

7. Not so fast

The victim was pinned beneath the front-end suspension of a high-riding, big-assed car.

It's possible that the guy was invisible to the driver.

Of course, it's the driver's responsibility to pay attention to things like disabled vehicles and to pedestrians, and if he was drunk, they ought to attach a big rock to the book they use to throw at him. But this is one of those wierd accidents that still needs to be investigated.

--bkl