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Hmm, Id say don’t be surprised if you get dragged into a court case hon, it wouldn’t be the first time there’s been a bit of dishonesty. I feel for the others he crashed into but you have to form your own judgment and do what you feel is right. Doesn’t sound like your the only witness does it.If you all got together it would be a different matter maybe.

sounds like you should

don’t be surprised if u don’t start getting harrasssed by the cops if you do. cops are vindictive liars

This is my thinking, if shes got the backing of other witness’s that’s different, but on her own with her word against theirs, Id opt out I think.

Well I would call. But you’re right, they might not believe you and they won’t want to hear it. But I myself would call anyway.

Joy, you must do it because it is the right thing to do.

I had a really good friend named Beth. One night in Milledgeville, GA, Beth was killed when a sheriff’s deputy ran a red light and rammed into her Saturn with his Crown Victoria police car. She was killed instantly. I really, really miss her.

The sheriff’s department was not forthcoming with information. The deputy was on a domestic disturbance call. Ordinarily the deputies will stop for coffee on the way to a domestic disturbance call, but in this case they were in a hurry because a relative of one of the deputies was involved in the domestic dispute.

You may have to contact one of the victims. The police may just tell you that they’ll “take care of it” and do nothing. But you must come forth–or someone’s life could be ruined because of your silence. And you wouldn’t want that to happen it if were YOU who was involved in that accident, right?

This will haunt you for the rest of your life if you do not act. It is an obligation of conscience, and it is an obligation to our fellow human being. Please act now! If nothing else, go to the media. But you should find out who was involved and tell that person. Silence is not an option!

I agree with Chev.Jame

How old r u? Perhaps ask your parents what to do.

P.S. The sheriff’s department was sued and agreed to make all of its officers attend the Peace Officers Standard Training certification course. The idea of the POST training is to provide a “check ride” system and get rid of the “boys with toys” mentality.

My friend died because of a “boys with toys” mentality. The people in that Buick were likely severely injured for the very same reason.

It shouldn’t take lawsuits to get police departments to properly train their officers, but the sad fact is that many won’t react until they’ve been taken to court.

The Buick passengers will need compensation to get their lives back on track. From your description, the police officer was clearly at fault for not ensuring the intersection was clear before driving through it. I don’t care about the reason for their police call . . . you cannot drive like a maniac for any reason. If you charge blindly through intersections, sooner or later you’re going to collide with innocent people.

report it anonymously, write a letter or something. You have to its your civic duty.

Anonymous calls are not going to work. Trust me on this.

There are all kinds of reasons you can come up with for not coming forth as a witness.

My own belief is that God did not put us on this earth to sit on the sidelines. We are, from time to time, given situations like this to see what we are made of. We will fail the test or we will pass it. It is really a simple thing to do the right thing . . . it’s just HARD to do it.

But if it were YOUR parents or MY parents in that Buick, it wouldn’t even be a choice, right? We’d come forth and tell what we saw, under oath if necessary.

The only thing we will take out of this life is our honor. We must sometimes act against our own best interests in order to preserve it.

Put most simply: don’t choose the easy wrong over the hard right.

Chev.Jame’s got it right!!!

my suggestion is to call the chief of police anon and let him know what really happend… this way, no names are available for them to harass.. atleast that is what i would do.. because now, the car that is supposedly at fault is going to have a hard time with their insurance for causing an accident, plus have to pay for the police car which was not their fault… and who knows what kind of physical injury they had and now wont get help paying for their medical bills all due to this cops lies..

you should tell the truth.

Imagine that you are riding in a car and a police cruiser runs a red light and rams your car. You are severely injured, and it’s going to take an operation and physical therapy before you can walk again. The driver of the vehicle has only minimum insurance coverage, and it’s going to take a LOT of money to make you well again.

Now imagine that the driver of the police car, fearing for his job, claims that he had his lights and siren on, but he didn’t. There’s a witness to the fact that the police car’s lights did not turn on until after the collision.

But without a witness coming forward, it’s the policeman’s word against the driver of the car in which you are riding. If it cannot be establish that the police driver was negligent, there will be no insurance settlement from the police department, and you won’t get your operation and physical therapy. Even worse, if you are still unable to work, there won’t be any payment for lost wages. You’ll probably have to declare bankruptcy, you still won’t be able to get the medical treatment you need . . . all because someone got scared and wouldn’t come forward.

This is no longer the Middle Ages. People are videotaping the police doing wrong and are coming forward, and they are not being persecuted for it. You can be sure that the chief of police will order the offending officers to not have any contact with you.

But if you don’t come forward–and do so using your real name and address–then justice will not be served. People are going to suffer because of your silence.

An anonymous phone call will be disregarded. You cannot adjudicate an accident case on the basis of an anonymous phone call.

You will only go through this life once. You can go through as a coward or you can go through as a person of integrity.

You can’t do both.