Nicholas Lavoie 10/26/13 Criminology NYC Bikers vs. Range Rover (Group 2) On September 29, 2013, on New York City's Henry Hudson Parkway, a sport utility vehicle (SUV) driven by motorist Alexian Lien was involved in a vehicular accident with motorcyclist Christopher Cruz. A fifty-block (two-and-a-half-mile) chase by Cruz's companions ensued. Motorcyclist Christopher Cruz was "brake-checking" Lien, which means intentionally braking and slowing to taunt Lien. After Cruz and the others brought Lien to a stop in the middle of the West Side Highway, Lien's Range Rover was surrounded by a group of 20 to 30 motorcycles.
I got there and saw that my worker was making business with anyone he could find, and on top of that he was making a profit. So I went up to him and asked him what are you doing and he replied, “I’m screwing up your life.” I looked down and saw my hand was full of blood from my stomach. He quickly got in his car and I tried to go as fast as him, but I couldn’t. I was chasing him and contacted the police so they know where I am and that I was shot, in the stomach. I was thinking to myself if I annihilate the truck tire then I will never remit my guns.
The car misses the student but slides and crashes into the pole for the traffic signal. Terry and Shaun are hurt but survive as both were restrained by their seat belts in the front bucket seats. However, Jane was sitting in the back and was not wearing her lap belt (she hated lap belts and they did not fit right with her skirt). Jane was ejected from the car and
The documentary “From One Second To The Next” by Werner Herzog shows the tragedy of a few people who was involved in a car accident. Texting and driving is obviously not a good idea so why do people still choose to do it? This documentary both shows and tells about how fast texting and driving can change someone’s life. The fact that you can kill someone should make people not want to drive and text. “According to U.S. Department of Transportation statistics, 3,331 people were killed and 387,000 more injured in crashes involving a distracted driver in 2011” (Herzog, 2011).
USE OF FORCE Laura Milligan August 25, 2007 Victor Harris, ignoring the blue lights and siren of the officer trying to stop him for speeding, led officers on six-minute chase speeds exceeding 85 miles per hour on two-lane roads. When Harris turned into a shopping center, officers positioned their cars in an attempt to block him. He collided with Deputy Scott’s vehicle before escaping. Followed by, Deputy Scott, now the lead car in the pursuit, requested and received permission to use a precision intervention technique (PIT) maneuver to stop Harris. However, because the speed was so great, Deputy Scott instead decided to hit Harris’s car with his front “push” bumper.
A Drunken Ride, a Tragic Aftermath is a article by Theresa Conroy and Christine M. Johnson. In the article, a boy makes the decision to drive drunken with four other friends in his vehicle. As the night progress he ends up in a collision and many people loose their lives. In the crash there were many factors that caused the accident. For example, the number of people in five seated car, the amount of alcohol consumed, party that students attended before the accident, and the students actions in the car.
Throughout the movie different members of the team encounter multiple acts of racism. In one scene of the movie the team is driving down a road when they come across a lynching mob which they soon discover is burning a black man’s body. Scared out of their minds, they try to quietly back the car up and drive away from the mob but when one of the mob members sees the black people in the car the whole mob starts to chase down the car. The debaters get away in the end but are all still emotionally affected and shaken by what they had seen. So in the final debate of the movie James L. Farmer jr. tells the audience about what they saw uses this awful memory to help their side of the debate.
When the police arrived at the scene Peter gets away leaving only Anthony and Cameron in the car. Because of the incident with Ryan and Hansen Cameron gets angry and verbally assaults the police officers when they asked him to get out of the car. Hansen told the police officers that he knew Cameron and persuaded them to let him go with a warning. Cameron Stopped to look at Anthony and told him “You embarrass me, you embarrass yourself.” In conclusion, Cameron is trying to make Anthony understand that they are consequences to his actions. What Anthony did make people believe that African American males are more likely to do crime and are gangbangers.
Unluckily, a huge lorry is coming from the opposite direction. Without a doubt, his motorcycle will crash into the lorry and take him and his passengers’ life. On the other hand, to make the video interesting, there is a creative side to it. It pauses when the
Date: 05/14/2009 To, The Editor, The New Era Times, 9 West 57th Street, NY, 4123 USA Subject: Spreading Mass Awareness About Dangers of Using a Cell Phone While Driving Through your esteemed newspaper, we are pleased and honored to express our views on increasing threats of using a cell phone while driving. We are the undergrad students of St. Patrick's College in Park Street, New York. In an unfortunate incident, exactly two weeks ago, we lost one of our classmates, Nick Breck (21), in a tragic accident. He succumbed to severe injuries before he could be taken to the hospital. The cause of accident as reported by the police officials has been negligent driving.