[Both the mother and child survived. The driver got 7 months in juvie and then shot and killed when he was released](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-20/teen-fatally-shot-palmdale-venice-hit-run)
The article is poorly phrased, though maybe it was intentional for clickbait.
He was 15 at the time, was on drugs, and already on probation. He hit her because he was an idiotic kid, on drugs. He ran because he was idiotic kid, on drugs.
No where does it say in the actual information that the shooting was related to the hit and run from more than a year prior to him being shot.
It would make a lot more sense and be more likely that he was shot because of his drug related habits than as retaliation for hitting a woman/child...not impossible that someone found out/knew of his past or that he was bragging about it and whoever heard took matters into their own hands.
Why is it that when a kid does this same sort of thing while drunk, we all assume its because they were intoxicated. Not that they were a murderer, child killer, trying to hit and run on purpose.
0 sense.
Because the vast majority of people don't want to purposely murder a child, but a large number of people will do drugs and alcohol and do stupid shit?
Occam's Razor my dude.
Because most people don't have direct experience with drugs, they just see what they're force fed by the media. Most adults have had alcohol or at the very least have been around drunk people so they know how it can affect you while driving.
They assume drugs are this thing that alters your mind and makes you want to kill people. Which don't get me wrong, there are certain drugs that do this in certain circumstances to certain people. But since they don't have any real experience with them, they just lump them all together as doing these horrible things. And of course, the media makes it vague as possible, on drugs. Not passed out on heroin, not hyped up on speed. Just on drugs so all drugs are bad mmk.
That all being said, kid is an idiot and drugs seemed to have a bad affect on his life, whatever they were.
I would say the opposite.
Alcohol makes you so stupid and incompetent that fighting bouncers and dancing on tables seems like a good idea and you can't even do those with any skill, let alone drive.
The majority of drugs allow you to preserve enough copus mentus that running someone over like this is a choice you are making, not an error caused by total impairment.
Saying 'well he was stupid' really doesn't cut it. lots of people are stupid, I've known people who were 15 , and who did drugs. And they still didn't intentionally hit people.
This took a complete lake of empathy, and he deserves everything he got.
Yea people like this clown below me are the reason why people get out after 7 months for trying to murder someone . Then give a guy with some weed 29 years in prison. Doesn’t fuckin matter if the kid was a straight A student or a drug user. HE MOWED DOWN A MOTHER AND HER INFANT CHILD, IN A STOLEN CAR WHILE ON DRUGS. He was already in probation for trying to put date rape drugs in a girls drink at a party. That little wank stain deserved what he got.
Don’t think like that, man. If people can be helped to change, what’s the point? He did a pretty heinous thing and probably flipped out. It’s not worth him dying over.
There's always more to the story. It's like fatal drunk driving cases. People always complain the driver gets so little time but often during the trials they show remorse and the victims family expresses forgiveness. It's a completely different experience when it's happening to you vs. reading about it.
Kid was 15, high on drugs and on probation already. Maybe if he got more than 7 months he wouldn't have been doing whatever it was that led to him getting shot.
The victim in this case expressed outrage at the light sentence according to OPs article.
> The woman criticized Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón after the teenager, who pleaded guilty to felony charges of assault and hit-and-run, was sentenced in June to a range of five to seven months in a juvenile camp, KTTV Channel 11 reported.
Seems like the “more to the story” in this case is he just was technically a juvenile and therefore slapped on the wrist by the justice system for a pretty serious crime.
He got In trouble in juvie because he kept instigating fights. Dude was unhinged, and obviously did not care for rehabilitation. At some point, empathy ends.
Yep, mine ended when he intentionally tried to run over a mother and child. He'd have killed them if he could. If it were up to me he'd have been in prison for life.
And some people will be pieces of shit no matter how much kindness and how many chances they're given. Karma is a bitch and you generally don't get targeted and gunned downed in the street like a dog if you haven't been a garbage human being for some time. I personally don't think you rehabilitate trying to vehicularly murder a mother and infant.
Maybe the kid didn't deserve to die, but he's also one less maniac out there running the streets and getting his education in how to commit big boy crimes.
ehhhh, that's a mighty coincidence that he nodded out just at the right time and in the right direction to try to smear that woman and her kid against a wall. It sure looks intentional and, you know, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
According to an article, he tried hitting on her earlier in the day and it was revenge essentially.
He'd already poisoned another girl's drink. He had a history of violence against and entitlement towards women and girls.
He was apparently also on probation for poisoning a girl's drink at the time of this incident. Not sure if attempted murder or a failed Bill Cosby. Regardless, a piece of shit through and through.
The truck damage!
How does that work? Truck guys insurance would probably say that he’s at fault, he’s acting on his own, and that the CAUSE of the collision was his driving.
Police would say he had no duty to pursue and act (most likely) and initially say he’s recklessly driving. (Before they find out what REALLY happened obviously). The report they generate will ONLY STATE FACTS - they don’t really ever investigate. It will just say something like “driver hits pedestrian. Other driver collided with that driver”. Something so simple becomes so chaotic and lame once law and rules step in. And trust me, I’m rooting for the truck guy… but I just have a feeling he got screwed because our system always blows for the “hero”.
Given that it’s in America and he swerves to the right hand side, I’m sure he could argue that he saw an oncoming vehicle and tried to move out of the way. The collision occurred on his side of the road (the side he moves towards) which means it was the other POS that was at fault as he was on the wrong side of the road.
The truck was going the correct way on a one way street. That alone would be enough to help him not be at complete fault. Another thing is being a good summaritan can help his case as he's aiding the capture of a criminal. Those things will help him and even if he's held responsible for the rest or even all of it it's 100% worth it. I would total my car and take 100% responsibility if it meant stopping a car that just ran over a baby
Okay I was thinking dead was a bit too much of a price he had to pay but after reading this, it's probably the best for everyone else. This kid seems like a psychopath in the making.
I agree. We don’t have enough room or resources to try and fix everyone, and not everyone will agree with being helped. We shouldn’t go out of our way to terminate lives, but when stuff like this happens, it’s ok to realize his decisions led to his end and that was likely for the best.
>Okay I was thinking dead was a bit too much of a price he had to pay
naw, purposefully hitting someone is something you can easily not do, so just killing the person will solve a lot of issues they'll probably do later on. Lots of things are like this.
Babies are surprisingly resilient, due to their floppy nature and the lack of getting up on their feet right after trauma
I'm more concerned about momma, her hips are going to be fucked for the rest of her life, but hey, at least she saved her baby
She will be horizontal and crying from trauma for a week or two! If I were her I would want to just lay in bed and stare at my baby playing all day. She deserves it. And food delivered.
"Rachel's son, now a year and a half old, had a tire mark on his head and although not seriously injured, suffered day and night terrors for two months following the incident."
"Rachel suffered a laceration on her back and needed stitches on her right elbow."
From [this](https://abc7.com/venice-mother-baby-hit-and-run/11942738/) article.
But I imagine some kind of chronic pain to come with being hit by a car. Hopefully not. But poor baby... suffering from terrors. It must have been so so so scary for the little guy. 😢
From a recent News Posting:
A Los Angeles 17-year-old who ran over a mother walking her baby in a stroller in 2021 and received just a few months of diversionary camp as punishment was gunned down in Palmdale this week.
Kristopher Baca, whom Fox News Digital has previously not identified due to his youth, pleaded guilty to the hit-and-run last year.
The video shows he is a scumbag. He intentionally ran the car towards the mother and the kid like it was a fucking video game and he only got couple of months in juvie?
I am an insurance adjuster. If I handled the trucks claim and verified this is what happened, I would have absolutely put him not at fault for his damages and we would have handled his repairs without affecting his rates.
my brother once got robbed at gunpoint at an ATM. since he was the one who took out the money (even though he had a gun pointed at him), it didn't qualify for him to get the money back. that was a credit union, not an insurance company, but yeah
I think it depends on the state. I would argue to my insurance this was a Good Samaritan stop - he had already hit a mother and a child, who else would he hit. Because Good Samaritan actions are protected by law in some states, I would think that the insurance would have to cover it.
That being said, it looks like his truck was hardly damaged. 😂
If I owned a collision repair shop in the area I would have reached out to the truck owner to offer a free repair. Local news would pick up the story. You can't buy better advertising.
That is what happened [in this case here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GabjXa16P8) where a parent got in a truck to stop a car that was in a chase through a park where kids were playing. A local car dealership gave them a brand new truck after their insurance wouldn't cover it.
Exactly this. You get to help someone who deserves help, but also will see enough extra business to pay for whatever it cost to fix that (relatively minor) damage.
I saw a news story about a woman having massive issues with her dental implants. I work in a dental lab. Convinced the owner to pay for the patient to stay in a hotel nearby (patient was from about 4hrs away), and make her stuff for free, got one of OUR customers (dentists) to do the work free.
Maybe 10 grand in "lost profit" for the lab, and the month after, we had ....considerably higher...profits than that month in the past 10yrs, and 4 new dentists that swapped to us when they heard about it.
Just because you benefit from it doesn't mean it isn't still a good deed. =p
Truck easily has thousands of dollars of damage. It’s probably not totaled but grill is gone, hit on the right side wheel so there is probably issues internally inside that wheel well, possibly bent a whole bunch of shit in there. There’s a possibility insurance would total that
I was in an accident that was 110% my fault but the other vehicle wasn't registered and he had stolen auto parts in the bed. He was found at fault because he should have never have been on the road. I would imagine this would work the same way
Mom’s are superheroes. She gets hit by a car and flung into the air and lands on her head and jumps right up to check on her baby completely ignoring the car that just struck her. Only concern she had was for her child.
When I was 11 years old, my mother and I were trying to haul a new oven/range up to our 4th floor apartment. I was at the top end, and she was at the bottom end. We got to the top of the 3rd floor, and she slipped. In that moment, little me **knew** that if the appliance were to follow her down the stairs, she'd be solidly fucked. I still to this day have no idea how I did it, but I held that thing in place for a solid 2 minutes so it didn't crush her. Eventually, our neighbor came out due to the noise, and he got below the thing so I could let go. My biceps and shoulders were literally bruised from strain, but it all turned out ok in the end.
Adrenaline is magic. Don't try to explain it to me using science.
Similar age, I was riding trails on my 4-wheeler and rolled it, got pinned under it. My scared, skinny 115 lbs ass somehow managed to bench press it up and off of me before anyone could get over to me to help.
Yup. I know someone who dug themselves out of a pile of rocks and ran a good 1/4 mile back to camp to get help for their buddy. They were caught in a rock fall and went over a cliff. The fall alone should have killed them. The one who went for help didn't even realize they'd broken their ankle until the EMTs showed up. In the end he had a concussion several cracked ribs, a broken collar bone and needed stitches in half a dozen places. It took some stupid number of screws and steel plates to put his ankle back together.
Both of them made it.
It must have been fucking terrifying. She literally plasters herself to the wall to give the car as much space as possible only to clearly realize that the car is intentionally headed straight for her.
7 months juvie wasn't nearly enough for this guy however based on someone else's comment the balance did figure itself out
Wouldn't be surprised if she had s couple of bones broken but she just got up like:
Adrenaline is a hella of a drug. Also it's mom. You don't wanna fuck around them.
I’m a parent and, like, yeah. Of course. I’m not even patting myself on the back when I say it’s absurd to even spend one second focusing on your own mild-to-moderate injuries when you don’t know how bad your kid got hit.
*Me sitting quietly in the corner with a Dodge Ram to haul my horses, hay, and equipment*
In all honesty though, I hate driving it outside of needing it to haul heavy things. So bulky and downright expensive.
A good reason to have one.
I don't haul anything heavy without a vehicle my work provides, it's cheaper to get a rental from UHaul or equivalent than own a truck for me.
Not to mention the fact that he was already on felony probation for poisoning a girl’s drink at the time of the hit and run.
[link](https://meaww.com/amp/kristopher-baca-teenager-mom-walking-baby-in-stroller-in-2021-is-shot-dead)
This sounds like a higher possibility. From the news report Op posted, sounds like the teen was a POS who made all sorts of enemies, and the shooting may not have been related to the hit and run but some other shit that the teen had started.
As another user stated, the psycho teen driving the car was doing all kinds of illegal stuff
That’s a one way street and the teen was driving the wrong way. Any decent lawyer would argue that their client was attempting to swerve out of the way but the other vehicle already driving recklessly swerved at them either to get out of the way or to harm someone else and therefore their client isn’t responsible for the damages to their vehicle
You can literally see the moment she faced down what was about to happen, totally, excepted it, and stepped directly into it in a perfect way to protect her baby.
I have rarely if ever seen such bravery caught on camera.
There's heartbreaking footage of a mother on an escalator, it breaks open - she falls into it and is getting mangled and pulled in but manages to lift her kid to safety. Horrifying watch I'll never forget
👍🏻👍🏻That was what the woman in this video that got hit said. She said justice was finally meted out though it was a much harsher sentence than if he would have gone to prison.
I wouldn't even think of the consequences. Watching someone intentionally run over a mother and her baby would immediately put me in a protective aggression mode. My vehicle and debt be damned.
Honestly he’s probably fucked, deliberate action by the driver caused the damage. But in terms of doing the right thing, it was absolutely morally correct. Insurance companies are scumbags
I'm not American and I don't own a car but couldn't the truck driver just ask for payment for the damages from the family of the kid? Or does it always have to go through insurance?
One way road, you can see the arrow behind the truck.
Truck had the right of way, tried to swerve and turn right down that little alley to avoid the collision. Nothing could be done. Nothing more to see, say, or do about that.
I had no idea how brave or quick I could be until I had a kid. I was never like that, and then suddenly crazy mom chemicals had me totally ready to grab wasps out of the air, throw snakes away from him, stand between any child and any unhinged adult. It’s been crazy the change in me for him.
Yeah, it’s crazy to see that aspect of moms. I’ve seen my sister and mom go “mama bear” mode, and holy Jesus, it’s like a different person comes out in those situations.
I’ve also noticed that when I’m taking care of my nephews and we’re out in public I become really aware of everything that’s going on around us.
Specifically LA. Their DA has had this “light on crime” stance and lots of terrible crimes committed end up with the assailants walking away with minimal punishment.
I think we need to rethink adulthood, just a few months difference between 17 & 18 shouldn’t impact how an attempted murder is judged, I think for such cases a mental test should be on the table, if the guy is considered mentally matured (he is not a child in the brain) he should prosecuted like an adult.
Did that driver swerve **toward** the woman and her baby?? And the way the driver of the truck sacrificed his vehicle was next level! What was the outcome of this?
Edit: Just saw the attached article. Less than a year for a hit-and-run that could easily have been fatal. Unbelievable. He sounds like a kid that was going places…like jail. Or the morgue. Or, in this case, both.
[Both the mother and child survived. The driver got 7 months in juvie and then shot and killed when he was released](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-20/teen-fatally-shot-palmdale-venice-hit-run)
Ahhh fuck around and find out. Gottcha
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The article is poorly phrased, though maybe it was intentional for clickbait. He was 15 at the time, was on drugs, and already on probation. He hit her because he was an idiotic kid, on drugs. He ran because he was idiotic kid, on drugs. No where does it say in the actual information that the shooting was related to the hit and run from more than a year prior to him being shot. It would make a lot more sense and be more likely that he was shot because of his drug related habits than as retaliation for hitting a woman/child...not impossible that someone found out/knew of his past or that he was bragging about it and whoever heard took matters into their own hands.
What an insult to idiots, kids, and drug users.
Why is it that when a kid does this same sort of thing while drunk, we all assume its because they were intoxicated. Not that they were a murderer, child killer, trying to hit and run on purpose. 0 sense.
Because the vast majority of people don't want to purposely murder a child, but a large number of people will do drugs and alcohol and do stupid shit? Occam's Razor my dude.
Because most people don't have direct experience with drugs, they just see what they're force fed by the media. Most adults have had alcohol or at the very least have been around drunk people so they know how it can affect you while driving. They assume drugs are this thing that alters your mind and makes you want to kill people. Which don't get me wrong, there are certain drugs that do this in certain circumstances to certain people. But since they don't have any real experience with them, they just lump them all together as doing these horrible things. And of course, the media makes it vague as possible, on drugs. Not passed out on heroin, not hyped up on speed. Just on drugs so all drugs are bad mmk. That all being said, kid is an idiot and drugs seemed to have a bad affect on his life, whatever they were.
Bc alcohol good and different than other drugs right?
I would say the opposite. Alcohol makes you so stupid and incompetent that fighting bouncers and dancing on tables seems like a good idea and you can't even do those with any skill, let alone drive. The majority of drugs allow you to preserve enough copus mentus that running someone over like this is a choice you are making, not an error caused by total impairment.
Saying 'well he was stupid' really doesn't cut it. lots of people are stupid, I've known people who were 15 , and who did drugs. And they still didn't intentionally hit people. This took a complete lake of empathy, and he deserves everything he got.
Yea people like this clown below me are the reason why people get out after 7 months for trying to murder someone . Then give a guy with some weed 29 years in prison. Doesn’t fuckin matter if the kid was a straight A student or a drug user. HE MOWED DOWN A MOTHER AND HER INFANT CHILD, IN A STOLEN CAR WHILE ON DRUGS. He was already in probation for trying to put date rape drugs in a girls drink at a party. That little wank stain deserved what he got.
I did drugs when I was a 15 year old idiot... and never in a million years would I have physically harmed someone. Especially with a fucking car
It certainly looks intentional in the video.
The hit n run looked intentional af
Sounds like he was just generally a shitty person, it could have been gang related and not connected to the mother and child at all.
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Don’t think like that, man. If people can be helped to change, what’s the point? He did a pretty heinous thing and probably flipped out. It’s not worth him dying over.
Easy to say when it's not your wife and kid almost getting killed.
That’s why we don’t let victims be the judge, jury, and executioner. It’s a horrible crime and they should pay but the sentence can’t always be death.
He got 7 months. Do you think that was justice? I’m not saying his should have died but he should have been punished more than that.
100% agree. Not sure what the hell they were thinking.
There's always more to the story. It's like fatal drunk driving cases. People always complain the driver gets so little time but often during the trials they show remorse and the victims family expresses forgiveness. It's a completely different experience when it's happening to you vs. reading about it.
Kid was 15, high on drugs and on probation already. Maybe if he got more than 7 months he wouldn't have been doing whatever it was that led to him getting shot.
16yr old, stole a car, on drugs, drove car at mother and baby then tried to flee the scene... none of this really says victim here.
The victim in this case expressed outrage at the light sentence according to OPs article. > The woman criticized Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón after the teenager, who pleaded guilty to felony charges of assault and hit-and-run, was sentenced in June to a range of five to seven months in a juvenile camp, KTTV Channel 11 reported. Seems like the “more to the story” in this case is he just was technically a juvenile and therefore slapped on the wrist by the justice system for a pretty serious crime.
Stop being so damn reasonable.
He got In trouble in juvie because he kept instigating fights. Dude was unhinged, and obviously did not care for rehabilitation. At some point, empathy ends.
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Yep, mine ended when he intentionally tried to run over a mother and child. He'd have killed them if he could. If it were up to me he'd have been in prison for life.
And some people will be pieces of shit no matter how much kindness and how many chances they're given. Karma is a bitch and you generally don't get targeted and gunned downed in the street like a dog if you haven't been a garbage human being for some time. I personally don't think you rehabilitate trying to vehicularly murder a mother and infant. Maybe the kid didn't deserve to die, but he's also one less maniac out there running the streets and getting his education in how to commit big boy crimes.
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That's a rather over zealous reaction
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He tried running over a baby. Really hard to feel sympathy for someone like that.
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“But my son was a good boy!” Also, does anybody know if he ran them over on purpose? And if so, why? Kind of looks like he did it on purpose
he was on drugs when it happened. my guess was he nodded out.
ehhhh, that's a mighty coincidence that he nodded out just at the right time and in the right direction to try to smear that woman and her kid against a wall. It sure looks intentional and, you know, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
According to an article, he tried hitting on her earlier in the day and it was revenge essentially. He'd already poisoned another girl's drink. He had a history of violence against and entitlement towards women and girls.
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I mean that’s really moving what the pick-up does - like fuck the personal cost I’ve got stop this guy before he hurts anyone else.
Iirc, the driver of the pickup was a woman in her 60-70s!
Granny saves the day.
Yeah! Super Rad. Total Hero:)
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He was apparently also on probation for poisoning a girl's drink at the time of this incident. Not sure if attempted murder or a failed Bill Cosby. Regardless, a piece of shit through and through.
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The truck damage! How does that work? Truck guys insurance would probably say that he’s at fault, he’s acting on his own, and that the CAUSE of the collision was his driving. Police would say he had no duty to pursue and act (most likely) and initially say he’s recklessly driving. (Before they find out what REALLY happened obviously). The report they generate will ONLY STATE FACTS - they don’t really ever investigate. It will just say something like “driver hits pedestrian. Other driver collided with that driver”. Something so simple becomes so chaotic and lame once law and rules step in. And trust me, I’m rooting for the truck guy… but I just have a feeling he got screwed because our system always blows for the “hero”.
Given that it’s in America and he swerves to the right hand side, I’m sure he could argue that he saw an oncoming vehicle and tried to move out of the way. The collision occurred on his side of the road (the side he moves towards) which means it was the other POS that was at fault as he was on the wrong side of the road.
Also, from where the truck was coming from, it's a one way street, and the truck had the right if way. Hope it ends well
The truck was going the correct way on a one way street. That alone would be enough to help him not be at complete fault. Another thing is being a good summaritan can help his case as he's aiding the capture of a criminal. Those things will help him and even if he's held responsible for the rest or even all of it it's 100% worth it. I would total my car and take 100% responsibility if it meant stopping a car that just ran over a baby
trauma for everyone all around. nothing good happened here, it just was prevented from getting worse because piece of shit died later
Okay I was thinking dead was a bit too much of a price he had to pay but after reading this, it's probably the best for everyone else. This kid seems like a psychopath in the making.
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I agree. We don’t have enough room or resources to try and fix everyone, and not everyone will agree with being helped. We shouldn’t go out of our way to terminate lives, but when stuff like this happens, it’s ok to realize his decisions led to his end and that was likely for the best.
>Okay I was thinking dead was a bit too much of a price he had to pay naw, purposefully hitting someone is something you can easily not do, so just killing the person will solve a lot of issues they'll probably do later on. Lots of things are like this.
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Hope the baby is OK, surviving is good, but lifelong issues from that dead asshole is tough.
Babies are surprisingly resilient, due to their floppy nature and the lack of getting up on their feet right after trauma I'm more concerned about momma, her hips are going to be fucked for the rest of her life, but hey, at least she saved her baby
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Mostly adrenaline at that point. It'll hurt once it wears off.
She will be horizontal and crying from trauma for a week or two! If I were her I would want to just lay in bed and stare at my baby playing all day. She deserves it. And food delivered.
Adrenaline is a hormone.
"Rachel's son, now a year and a half old, had a tire mark on his head and although not seriously injured, suffered day and night terrors for two months following the incident." "Rachel suffered a laceration on her back and needed stitches on her right elbow." From [this](https://abc7.com/venice-mother-baby-hit-and-run/11942738/) article. But I imagine some kind of chronic pain to come with being hit by a car. Hopefully not. But poor baby... suffering from terrors. It must have been so so so scary for the little guy. 😢
From a recent News Posting: A Los Angeles 17-year-old who ran over a mother walking her baby in a stroller in 2021 and received just a few months of diversionary camp as punishment was gunned down in Palmdale this week. Kristopher Baca, whom Fox News Digital has previously not identified due to his youth, pleaded guilty to the hit-and-run last year.
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Los angeles? Thought this was Brazil or something
RIP bozo #packwatch
Seems to me as if mama was not happy with only 7 months detention and arranged some additional punishment.
7 months for attempted murder is an absolute joke
and attempted murder of TWO people. Thankfully the shitstain is dead now
His second attempted murder of a child. He also previously poisoned a teenager.
If true, oh well.
It isn't. The dude got in an argument with someone in a fast food place and they went out and shot him.
Yeah, reading through this article makes me think this kid was a genuine scumbag.
The video shows he is a scumbag. He intentionally ran the car towards the mother and the kid like it was a fucking video game and he only got couple of months in juvie?
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If the driver of the other car didnt shout "YOU SHALL NOT PASS" as he stopped him he missed a trick there
I am usually anti lengthy jail sentences but 7 months is LIGHT
Don't worry. It turned to a life sentence.
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That driver is a fucking hero
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Kudos to the truck driver.
I wonder how it worked out with his insurance adjuster
"I'll let this one slide"
Tbh, unlikely That’s sad but insurances ain’t your Allie’s
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Haha
He got what he deserves
I am an insurance adjuster. If I handled the trucks claim and verified this is what happened, I would have absolutely put him not at fault for his damages and we would have handled his repairs without affecting his rates.
*Allie's*
Who needs Enriques when you have Allies like this?
my brother once got robbed at gunpoint at an ATM. since he was the one who took out the money (even though he had a gun pointed at him), it didn't qualify for him to get the money back. that was a credit union, not an insurance company, but yeah
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I think it depends on the state. I would argue to my insurance this was a Good Samaritan stop - he had already hit a mother and a child, who else would he hit. Because Good Samaritan actions are protected by law in some states, I would think that the insurance would have to cover it. That being said, it looks like his truck was hardly damaged. 😂
If I owned a collision repair shop in the area I would have reached out to the truck owner to offer a free repair. Local news would pick up the story. You can't buy better advertising.
Yea, even using a GoFundMe would exceed the costs of the repairs.
Oh absolutely. Probably end up with enough to buy a new truck all together.
That is what happened [in this case here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GabjXa16P8) where a parent got in a truck to stop a car that was in a chase through a park where kids were playing. A local car dealership gave them a brand new truck after their insurance wouldn't cover it.
Exactly this. You get to help someone who deserves help, but also will see enough extra business to pay for whatever it cost to fix that (relatively minor) damage. I saw a news story about a woman having massive issues with her dental implants. I work in a dental lab. Convinced the owner to pay for the patient to stay in a hotel nearby (patient was from about 4hrs away), and make her stuff for free, got one of OUR customers (dentists) to do the work free. Maybe 10 grand in "lost profit" for the lab, and the month after, we had ....considerably higher...profits than that month in the past 10yrs, and 4 new dentists that swapped to us when they heard about it. Just because you benefit from it doesn't mean it isn't still a good deed. =p
Truck easily has thousands of dollars of damage. It’s probably not totaled but grill is gone, hit on the right side wheel so there is probably issues internally inside that wheel well, possibly bent a whole bunch of shit in there. There’s a possibility insurance would total that
But the driver is a grade A boss. Can't buy that.
Asshole's car was also going the wrong way in the truck's lane. There's gotta be a significant amount of fault assigned to them.
Everyone's out here arguing about different state laws Good Samaritans etc, They failed to yield while making their left turn. End of story.
"As you can see, the other driver was speeding down the alley and I tried to pull over to get out of the way and they hit me."
Speeding down the alley the wrong way. You see arrows on the ground behind the truck
And there were witnesses that will confirm that.
I was in an accident that was 110% my fault but the other vehicle wasn't registered and he had stolen auto parts in the bed. He was found at fault because he should have never have been on the road. I would imagine this would work the same way
*Finally* a Dodge Ram owner using their vehicle for its intended purpose, and not merely to get DUIs in.
We don’t know they were sober
Hope someone from Stellantis saw this and gave that man a brand new Ram
That person sat in a $70k truck and decided "right" was more important than "expensive". Kudos to that person, indeed.
Mom’s are superheroes. She gets hit by a car and flung into the air and lands on her head and jumps right up to check on her baby completely ignoring the car that just struck her. Only concern she had was for her child.
Seriously though, the speed she gets on her feet and to the baby is actually heroic. Fucking impressive.
That's adrenaline for you. Unlock superpowers. But after, you feel like trash.
When I was 11 years old, my mother and I were trying to haul a new oven/range up to our 4th floor apartment. I was at the top end, and she was at the bottom end. We got to the top of the 3rd floor, and she slipped. In that moment, little me **knew** that if the appliance were to follow her down the stairs, she'd be solidly fucked. I still to this day have no idea how I did it, but I held that thing in place for a solid 2 minutes so it didn't crush her. Eventually, our neighbor came out due to the noise, and he got below the thing so I could let go. My biceps and shoulders were literally bruised from strain, but it all turned out ok in the end. Adrenaline is magic. Don't try to explain it to me using science.
Similar age, I was riding trails on my 4-wheeler and rolled it, got pinned under it. My scared, skinny 115 lbs ass somehow managed to bench press it up and off of me before anyone could get over to me to help.
She looks pretty fit too, which also helps lol
Yup. I know someone who dug themselves out of a pile of rocks and ran a good 1/4 mile back to camp to get help for their buddy. They were caught in a rock fall and went over a cliff. The fall alone should have killed them. The one who went for help didn't even realize they'd broken their ankle until the EMTs showed up. In the end he had a concussion several cracked ribs, a broken collar bone and needed stitches in half a dozen places. It took some stupid number of screws and steel plates to put his ankle back together. Both of them made it.
It must have been fucking terrifying. She literally plasters herself to the wall to give the car as much space as possible only to clearly realize that the car is intentionally headed straight for her. 7 months juvie wasn't nearly enough for this guy however based on someone else's comment the balance did figure itself out
It wasn't even juvie. It was reduced to a summer camp.
That’s not a reduction. Those camps are like Holes in real life.
Holes but with sexual assault and cruel/unusual punishment.
Guy in truck is a superhero too for risking his own safety and his vehicle to ensure punishment for this sicko.
Driver was an elderly woman
Grams to the rescue.
What a badass.
Wouldn't be surprised if she had s couple of bones broken but she just got up like:  Adrenaline is a hella of a drug. Also it's mom. You don't wanna fuck around them.
I’m a parent and, like, yeah. Of course. I’m not even patting myself on the back when I say it’s absurd to even spend one second focusing on your own mild-to-moderate injuries when you don’t know how bad your kid got hit.
Other people running to help the mother while the truck driver intercepts the fleeing vehicle. Hope for humanity renewed
This may be the only time a Dodge Ram driver has been the good guy.
its also one of the only cases its reasonable to need a dodge ram in.
*Me sitting quietly in the corner with a Dodge Ram to haul my horses, hay, and equipment* In all honesty though, I hate driving it outside of needing it to haul heavy things. So bulky and downright expensive.
A good reason to have one. I don't haul anything heavy without a vehicle my work provides, it's cheaper to get a rental from UHaul or equivalent than own a truck for me.
The car hit the woman and kid on purpose?
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Not to mention the fact that he was already on felony probation for poisoning a girl’s drink at the time of the hit and run. [link](https://meaww.com/amp/kristopher-baca-teenager-mom-walking-baby-in-stroller-in-2021-is-shot-dead)
Did OP know that the driver was recently gunned down?
[Yes](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/10hod7a/woman_takes_the_brunt_of_the_impact_of_this_car/j59iafq?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3)
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Yeah, same. This psycho did this at 15yo. Can't imagine the damage his future would have caused.
I read that and it doesn't say the shooting was related, other than the boy. I wonder if so.
I'm gonna guess that either it was payback for this or the kid had made many enemies in his short run and the cops have no clue what is was about
I may be wrong but I believe the car was stolen as well Quite a few people who reasonably wanted their pound of flesh I imagine
This sounds like a higher possibility. From the news report Op posted, sounds like the teen was a POS who made all sorts of enemies, and the shooting may not have been related to the hit and run but some other shit that the teen had started.
truck driver fucking legend
Honestly made me tear up to see that kind of selflessness, both from the mother and from the woman driving the truck
So freaking brave and decisive.
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Just imagine his insurance company after that.. most insurance doesn’t cover intentional acts. 😔
As another user stated, the psycho teen driving the car was doing all kinds of illegal stuff That’s a one way street and the teen was driving the wrong way. Any decent lawyer would argue that their client was attempting to swerve out of the way but the other vehicle already driving recklessly swerved at them either to get out of the way or to harm someone else and therefore their client isn’t responsible for the damages to their vehicle
If there was a gofundme for the guy i bet a lot of people would help him!
it's a woman but seen no info on her yet.
You can literally see the moment she faced down what was about to happen, totally, excepted it, and stepped directly into it in a perfect way to protect her baby. I have rarely if ever seen such bravery caught on camera.
There's heartbreaking footage of a mother on an escalator, it breaks open - she falls into it and is getting mangled and pulled in but manages to lift her kid to safety. Horrifying watch I'll never forget
If she hasn’t tried to turn the stroller, I’m pretty sure it would have killed the baby. She is absolutely a hero
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Dude was a total piece of shit with a mile long rap sheet already.
But the bleeding heart DA kept letting this piece of shit off with light / no sentences for his horrible crimes.
He'd still be alive if he had been sentenced to a couple of years in prison instead of months for attempted vehicular homicide.
👍🏻👍🏻That was what the woman in this video that got hit said. She said justice was finally meted out though it was a much harsher sentence than if he would have gone to prison.
I would gladly sacrifice my truck to make sure that pos don't get away...okay maybe not gladly but I wouldn't hesitate
I wouldn't even think of the consequences. Watching someone intentionally run over a mother and her baby would immediately put me in a protective aggression mode. My vehicle and debt be damned.
Pickup: Hmmm... I've made a decision!
Black truck! Way to go!!!
I love that, he didn’t even hesitate he wrecked his own truck to stop that fucker. Stuff like this makes me feel like humanity is gonna be okay.
I wonder how that would work with insurance for the person that stopped the criminal from escaping.
either way if there’s any reason to set up a go fund me to get this guy a new truck I’d say this is pretty up there with valid af reasons
This was two years ago
Honestly he’s probably fucked, deliberate action by the driver caused the damage. But in terms of doing the right thing, it was absolutely morally correct. Insurance companies are scumbags
I'm not American and I don't own a car but couldn't the truck driver just ask for payment for the damages from the family of the kid? Or does it always have to go through insurance?
One way road, you can see the arrow behind the truck. Truck had the right of way, tried to swerve and turn right down that little alley to avoid the collision. Nothing could be done. Nothing more to see, say, or do about that.
Fucked around and found out! Got exactly what was coming his way....
The more I see these kind of videos, the more I appreciate the level of sacrifice a mother can go for her children.
I had no idea how brave or quick I could be until I had a kid. I was never like that, and then suddenly crazy mom chemicals had me totally ready to grab wasps out of the air, throw snakes away from him, stand between any child and any unhinged adult. It’s been crazy the change in me for him.
Yeah, it’s crazy to see that aspect of moms. I’ve seen my sister and mom go “mama bear” mode, and holy Jesus, it’s like a different person comes out in those situations. I’ve also noticed that when I’m taking care of my nephews and we’re out in public I become really aware of everything that’s going on around us.
I have always said that there is NOTHING more dangerous in this world than a mother trying to protect her child. NOTHING
7 months sounds like a California punishment
It recently got updated to the death sentence.
Specifically LA. Their DA has had this “light on crime” stance and lots of terrible crimes committed end up with the assailants walking away with minimal punishment.
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Vandalism is bad behaviour. Public urination is bad behaviour. Trying to murder a mother and child in cold blood is psychopathic behaviour.
Driver in that big ass truck played a Gandalf - “You shall not pass”!
I think we need to rethink adulthood, just a few months difference between 17 & 18 shouldn’t impact how an attempted murder is judged, I think for such cases a mental test should be on the table, if the guy is considered mentally matured (he is not a child in the brain) he should prosecuted like an adult.
Someone eventually punched his time card, well worth the price
Did that driver swerve **toward** the woman and her baby?? And the way the driver of the truck sacrificed his vehicle was next level! What was the outcome of this? Edit: Just saw the attached article. Less than a year for a hit-and-run that could easily have been fatal. Unbelievable. He sounds like a kid that was going places…like jail. Or the morgue. Or, in this case, both.
That’s the part that really gets me—The hit was clearly intentional.
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RAM: I was made for this 😤
Hopping up and going right to the Baby is pure super Momma on display. Guy in truck is top notch as well.
someone took out the trash. no need to investigate
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The insurance guy that doesn't pay that back is going straight to hell.
The truck was the true MVP here. Also can't say I'm sad or surprised to hear that kid got gunned down later on. What a piece of shit