Personal Injury Law

Des Moines DART Drivers In the News AGAIN

By Steve Lombardi

Today is about making the same mistakes over and over and over again. So while this morning we took up the baton for wrong-site surgery today at noon we will agains discuss the pedestrians in downtown Des Moines darting here and there to avoid the Dart buses.

Is the driver of a DART bus really the suspect of a hit and run? According to a Des Moines Police accident report filed on Monday October 19^th that's exactly what happened. Police are saying the accident occurred about 10:45 Friday at Seventh and Walnut streets, but was not reported until Monday.

Randy Alderman reported the accident and is the alleged victim of the hit and run who suffered a minor shoulder injury. Alderman has said that he was standing on the curb painting a shelter at one of the metro bus stops, when the DART bus pulled up to hit passengers and struck him in the shoulder. The police report says:'He then told the bus driver he had hit him and the bus driver said, 'I didn't see you.' The bus driver then left the area.' The DART bus driver was described as an older white male with white hair and was also able to give the police the bus number. Police are saying that alderman was seen by a doctor sometime after the accident.

Full post as published by Des Moines Personal Injury Lawyer on February 25, 2010 (boomark / email).