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Cabbie hits 11 bicyclists in Miami
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miam...ry/655951.html A cab driver may have fallen asleep at the wheel early Sunday morning before plowing into a group of bicyclists out for a leisurely morning ride on the MacArthur Causeway, police said. The 8 a.m. accident left many of the riders sprawled on the pavement in the eastbound lane and sent six to the hospital. The most seriously injured was a 48-year-old man who was taken into surgery and listed in critical condition; the five others were in stable condition. The other five suffered severe road burn when thrown to the pavement and were treated at the scene. After the accident, two bicycles were still attached to the cab, one crushed underneath it, the other by its front passenger door. The cab's windshield was shattered. Police identified the driver as Herbert Morais, 52, with the Checker Cab company. ''He's openly admitted to falling asleep behind the wheel of the car,'' said Detective Juan Sanchez, a Miami Beach police department spokesman. ``At this point he hasn't been charged with anything. The investigation is still on going.'' Michael S. Kaufman, an attorney for the cab company, said the company was still trying to reach the driver, and he could not comment on what the driver told police. He did not know if Morais had been working or possibly running errands on a Sunday morning. ''Our thoughts are obviously with those who are injured,'' Kaufman said. ``We all wish them a fast recovery. We're still looking into the events. . . . We need to reach him to get a definitive answer of what's going on.'' The company ensures all drivers are properly licensed with Miami-Dade County, he added. The accident occured in the eastbound lands of the causeway in the southern most lane, at the entrance to Palm Island. Morais, who did not have any passengers, struck the riders from behind. The group of cyclists are not part of an official club, but friends who get together on the weekends to ride. Some of the injured who were taken to Ryder Trauma Center were identified as: Julio Fuentes, 47, Gustavo Martinez, 43 Ramon Garcia, 45, Roberto Canovaca, 44 Julio Suares, 33 |
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Cabbie hits 11 bicyclists in Miami
Yikes! I hope everybody recovers.
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Cabbie hits 11 bicyclists in Miami
Police identified the driver as Herbert Morais, 52, with the Checker Cab company. ''He's openly admitted to falling asleep behind the wheel of the car,'' said Detective Juan Sanchez, a Miami Beach police department spokesman. ``At this point he hasn't been charged with anything. The investigation is still on going.'' Okay, just one question. Why is the investigation still on-going? If the schmuck has admitted to falling asleep behind the wheel what more do they need? |
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Cabbie hits 11 bicyclists in Miami
On Aug 24, 11:58 pm, Cycling bee wrote:
Police identified the driver as Herbert Morais, 52, with the Checker Cab company. ''He's openly admitted to falling asleep behind the wheel of the car,'' said Detective Juan Sanchez, a Miami Beach police department spokesman. ``At this point he hasn't been charged with anything. The investigation is still on going.'' Okay, just one question. Why is the investigation still on-going? If the schmuck has admitted to falling asleep behind the wheel what more do they need? Here in Austin there were several cases of people on bikes hit by a car that resulted in no charges filed. One famous case was with some redneck in a pickup truck that tried to run lance Armstrong of the road. He picked the worng guy to mess with and was charged with assault with vehicle or sth like that and went to prison. As for the cabie falling asleep I can relate to it - I drove a cab many years ago. Usually you split the cab 12hrs between day and night driver but there are cases when your day driver would take the day off and you may get the cab for several extra hours for free. There is always a temptation to drive and make money until you fall on your face. Technically you can even lease the cab on 24hrs basis and cab company is suppoise to enforce that you do not drive certain number of hours non-stop (I do not remember if it was 8 or 10). Either way - cab company will get sued and will pay thru the nose. I was hit couple times by drunk drivers (despite developing almost 6th sense to avoid it) and passengers in my cab found it much easier to sue the company - often for imaginary injuries. |
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Cabbie hits 11 bicyclists in Miami
Cycling bee writes:
Police identified the driver as Herbert Morais, 52, with the Checker Cab company. ''He's openly admitted to falling asleep behind the wheel of the car,'' said Detective Juan Sanchez, a Miami Beach police department spokesman. ``At this point he hasn't been charged with anything. The investigation is still on going.'' Okay, just one question. Why is the investigation still on-going? If the schmuck has admitted to falling asleep behind the wheel what more do they need? Need for what? You think he had criminal intent? |
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Cabbie hits 11 bicyclists in Miami
On Aug 25, 4:01*am, wrote:
Cycling bee writes: Police identified the driver as Herbert Morais, 52, with the Checker Cab company. ''He's openly admitted to falling asleep behind the wheel of the car,'' said Detective Juan Sanchez, a Miami Beach police department spokesman. ``At this point he hasn't been charged with anything. The investigation is still on going.'' Okay, just one question. Why is the investigation still on-going? If the schmuck has admitted to falling asleep behind the wheel what more do they need? Need for what? You think he had criminal intent? Negligence resulting in death or injury (or financial loss) is certainly prosecutable. Every state has a driving test. Every state has a corresponding driver's manual. Every state that I am even remotely familiar with has a warning in that manual about driving while sleepy. |
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Cabbie hits 11 bicyclists in Miami
On Aug 25, 2:01 am, wrote:
Cycling bee writes: Police identified the driver as Herbert Morais, 52, with the Checker Cab company. ''He's openly admitted to falling asleep behind the wheel of the car,'' said Detective Juan Sanchez, a Miami Beach police department spokesman. ``At this point he hasn't been charged with anything. The investigation is still on going.'' Okay, just one question. Why is the investigation still on-going? If the schmuck has admitted to falling asleep behind the wheel what more do they need? Need for what? You think he had criminal intent? Evem if he didn't have criminal intent, driving while sleepy is a condition that everyone is forewarned against. Criminl Negligence would be the least that I would expect him to be charged with. But as we all know, driving is nolonger a privilage, it's a right. We as a society need to start changing our attitudes towards 'accidents' . We also need to re-evaluate our loosey-goosey licensing requirements. |
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Cabbie hits 11 bicyclists in Miami
Police identified the driver as Herbert Morais, 52, with the Checker Cab
company. ''He's openly admitted to falling asleep behind the wheel of the car,'' said Detective Juan Sanchez, a Miami Beach police department spokesman. ``At this point he hasn't been charged with anything. The investigation is still on going.'' Cycling bee wrote: Okay, just one question. Why is the investigation still on-going? If the schmuck has admitted to falling asleep behind the wheel what more do they need? a pee test? Toxicology reports a few days later? Delay while accident reconstruction guys file their report on speeds, lane location, skid marks etc? Witness reports? General normal paperwork? If the 'serious' guy changes to 'fatal', charges change too. This is never quick nor simple. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** |
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