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I had a chuckle at the address of his parents.

^I never would have noticed that if you didn't point it out. Yes. Definitely chuckle worthy.

Carmageddon carnage with a fragmentation cherry on top.

StlToday - Cop charged with manslaughter in 2020 pursuit that killed Moline Acres police sergeant

Rayford, 41, was fired from Bellefontaine Neighbors after the crash and now works as a police officer in Hillsdale. 

Rayford was working as a Bellefontaine Neighbors police officer on Dec. 5, 2020, when he chased a stolen car on Chambers Road about 12:30 a.m. that day. His patrol car was traveling 80 to 85 mph in a 30 mph zone, without using emergency lights or sirens, police said.

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/cri ... e5327.html

^I hope so. Knowing is half the battle.

StlToday - Pedestrian killed when hit by vehicle fleeing police in north St. Louis

 A pedestrian died after he was hit by a vehicle fleeing police early Saturday morning in north St. Louis. 
The victim was hit by a 1997 Ford Taurus about 12:05 a.m. at Martin Luther King Drive and Academy Avenue, at the edge of the city's Academy and Kingsway West neighborhoods. 
Police said the victim died at a hospital. Police didn't release his name but described him as possibly in his 60s.

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/cri ... 7ec20.html

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Aug 30, 2022

StlToday - Leaders push for end to police chases after man killed in St. Louis over weekend

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/cri ... ed75d.html

It's a hard situation but IMO we saw that over the last couple of years pedestrian deaths went up due to lax police presence. Anecdotally I've been seeing a lot more police pulling people over on highways and average speeds have gone down.

Agreed - tough.  But if you don't chase they learn they can get away.  

Saint Louis needs to look at Chicago right now. They stopped chasing and now Downtown is a race track and full of low lives.


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https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local ... 2705f800e8

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — A woman was struck and killed overnight by a vehicle in Overland.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol identified the victim as 24-year-old Deandra Rogers of St. Louis.

JJ Taino wrote: ↑

Aug 31, 2022

Saint Louis needs to look at Chicago right now. They stopped chasing and now Downtown is a race track and full of low lives.


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New ordinance in Chicago focusing on drag and drifting.  Car gets impounded and $10,000 fine.  If enforced, this will stop most of the knuckleheads.

What we really need is a half-man, half-cyborg, all-cop super officer, lets call him/her/it a Robo Cop, to take the fight to the knuckleheads on their own terms.

KMOV - Man charged in deadly hit-and-run outside Ted Drewes

https://www.kmov.com/2022/08/31/man-cha ... ed-drewes/

Finally!

Hit and run driver in white Kia kills bicyclist by TG park on Grand yesterday afternoon. Sickening.

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/crime ... b3d579eae4

Grand is a freaking highway, needs to be reduced to one lane each way north of Arsenal ASAP

I'll never see how it is acceptable to throw in unprotected bike lanes right up against traffic going 50+ at times.

As someone who has probably 30k miles (conservative estimate) on a bike under my belt and still alive, I see bicyclists all the time riding around like they are in Munich or Ghent or something. I just shake my head and I know some of them or not long for this world. It's certainly not the bicyclist fault but you have to realize the type of people that populate this city and make choices based on those realities. Apparently driver was running red lights, passing in no pass zones as well.

The car was likely stolen. 

St. Louis city can't file the lawsuit paperwork against Kia and Hyundai soon enough. 

Very possibly, but I'm down there regularly on the weekends and running red lights and passing in no passing zones is an 'every few minutes' thing on that stretch of Grand.

-RBB