Two men were helping a pair of elderly ladies across the street in a snow storm when a truck hit one of them.
Bus driver Jim Moffett, 58, and one of his passengers decided to help two elderly women who had gotten off the bus on a Denver street in a light snowstorm. When a man in a pickup truck passed in the left turn lane and hit Jim Moffett, but not before he managed to push the other three people out of the way.
Mr. Moffett suffered a number of broken bones, a head injury and other serious injuries but Ryan Sullivan, of the State Patrol gave him a ticket for jaywalking, saying that “jaywalking caused the accident.” No you putz! Someone driving in a dangerous manner caused the accident.
The driver of the pickup was ticketed for careless driving causing injury.
I suppose if someone had died the trooper would have slid the ticket into the coffin.
Update: The cops changed their minds and withdrew the $22 jaywalking ticket. —Ain’t it amazing what massive amounts of bad press can do for a police department’s attitude.
