Robert Novak, right-wing columnist, pundit and propaganda spreader, was seen striking a cyclist and trying to flee the seen down in Washington, D.C. today. Thanks to the efforts of another rider on two wheels, Novak was stopped and held until the police came. Unfortunately for justice's sake, the police let him go with a minor ticket (failing to yield) because he claimed he didn't see the man he struck. As he bloviates in politics, he is full of it here as well.
From Politico:
“I didn’t know I hit him. ... I feel terrible,” a shaken Novak told reporters from Politico and WJLA as he was returning to his car. "He's not dead, that's the main thing." Novak said he was a block away from 18th and K streets Northwest, where the accident occurred, when a bicyclist stopped him and said he had hit someone. He said he was cited for failing to yield the right of way.The bicyclist was David Bono, a partner at Harkins Cunningham, who was on his usual bike commute to work at 1700 K St. N.W. when he witnessed the accident.
As he traveled east on K Street, crossing 18th, Bono said "a black Corvette convertible with top closed plows into the guy. The guy is sort of splayed into the windshield.”
Bono said that the pedestrian, who was crossing the street on a "Walk" signal and was in the crosswalk, rolled off the windshield and that Novak then made a right into the service lane of K Street. “This car is speeding away. What’s going through my mind is, you just can’t hit a pedestrian and drive away,” Bono said.He said he chased Novak half a block down K Street, finally caught up with him and then put his bike in front of the car to block it and called 911. Traffic immediately backed up, horns blaring, until commuters behind Novak backed up so he could pull over.
I'm sorry but if you hit someone with your car it makes a noise, I know this, because I was hit by a taxicab almost two years ago. Not only that, but if the victim gets splayed out on your windshield, there is no way you can't see them unless you are driving while legally blind and deaf. While that may apply to Novak's politics, driving is a serious matter and when you hit someone and then drive away, that is a serious crime. Novak may have lied to the police to get away, but the DC police better be reviewing cameras on K Street (you know they are there) to get the real picture.
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