Brooklyn, NY – The driver of the BMW that resulted in the three fatalities in Williamsburg, Brooklyn over the weekend is still at large, according to authorities.
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The NY Post (http://bit.ly/ZVM1dp) is reporting that Police have the driver’s name, and were showing his photo to possible witnesses, and the registered owner of the BMW, who was not in the car, has been charged with insurance fraud.
Takia Walker, 29, of The Bronx, had allegedly acquired the car under false pretense, and let a third party who was not on the insurance drive it.
No further details were released pertaining to the charge.
How does one acquire a car under false pretenses?
Put his photo out to the public and increase the reward to $10,000. He will be found.
And why are those findngs not surprising! The community must make sure that all pressure is brought to bear on the aurthorities to find the driver and see that they are charged to the fullest extent the law permits. .
why don’t they publicize the picture? what are the afraid of? that someone will point him out to the police?
Curious, can someone explain what “acquired the car under false pretense” means?
why the H… is the bum still at large?
we have a registered car and finger prints, what takes so long for NY’s “finest”?
In general, it’s perfectly legal to let someone borrow your car. My insurance, State Farm, allows for “occasional” drivers to drive my leased 2011 BMW 535i. Same goes for my other two older cars, which I own free and clear.
Now, if this person applied for credit, insures the car in her name, and lets somebody else use it most or all of the time, it’s insurance fraud. Same as if I let a friend use my address, which is in NW New Jersey where insurance is comparatively cheap, while the car spends its time in Brooklyn where car insurance is extremely expensive — for a reason.
What I can’t figure out is how someone could be charged for this over a weekend, when most businesses are closed. It takes time to investigate such matters. I suspect the cops just wanted to charge this woman with something. She wasn’t the driver. She didn’t cause the accident, or leave the scene. I personally have a big problem with vicarious liability.
The problem is that the penalty (and jail time) for “running away” from the seen of an accident (that killed a person) is a smaller penalty and less jail time than a “drunk driver” who killed.
The law makes it wroth while for the drunk driver to run away. Even if the driver will be caught a few hours later – there may be no more evidence of alcohol and they will get away with a smaller punishment.
Isn’t that crazy??
Let’s see who was most liable for this accident. Was it the limo driver, who apparently didn’t look to see who was coming? Was it the BMW, who had the right of way, who was going too fast (looks that way from the pictures)? Or was it the idiotic bike lanes in Brooklyn, which forced the car out into the intersection in order to look for approaching traffic, thus rendering the intersection of Wilson and Kent a blind one from the perspective of the limo driver? Or a combination of all those factors?
I am not familiar with this intersection. If someone is, please comment here.
As Dan says, she probably bought the car for someone else (very likely the other person even paid for it) and then got the car insured, but for all intents and purposes, it’s the other person’s car.
There are a lot of possible reasons. It could even be that the driver had so many DUIs and accidents that he couldn’t get insurance under his own name.
They dont want to publicize the photo because they dont want to taint potential witnesses who might identify the driver in a line up.
A person who leaves the scene of an accident can be charged with vehicular homicide just the same as a drunk driver. Especially if it is proven that they were driving recklessly and/or speeding. Sometimes you can find witnesses who testify that the person was drinking before the accident, that can support a dui charge.
My guess is that this driver is getting lawyered up and will be surrendering shortly.
This is a very simple case to solve. They have the car, the owner, fingerprints of the driver and passenger, the hit and run driver will be caught by the end of the week.
There are too many cases recently of hit and run accidents. Why cant they introduce new laws with harsher punishments for run away drivers? Lets demand from our elected lawmakers to put new or revised laws in effect as soon as possible! Too mnay lives have been lost with hit and run cases.
She probably leased it for somebody young and/or who had a bad driving record (while she wasn’t really the owner or making the payments) so he could get favorable terms on the lease and icast nsurance.
Or this driver who crashed rarely drove it and they’re simply applying pressure so she should be more forthcoming with help in finding the driver.
Which three ? I only know of two?
Of course they’re gonna catch the driver. The question I have is whether the driver was to blame. My understanding, and I could be wrong because I haven’t seen this with my own eyes, is that there’s a bike lane which obstructs the line of vision of drivers approaching Kent from Wilson. This makes the intersection a “blind” one, meaning the driver has to pull out into the intersection to see what’s coming. Based upon what happened in Brooklyn 20 years ago, when Gavin Kato was killed by a limo driver when the kid ran into the street, and the driver had to be rescued from a terrible beating or worse, I can understand that this driver and his passenger might be worried about payback.
I have the same problem where I live. My street makes a “T” with a fairly heavily traveled road, which has a 4-ton limit but plenty of bigger trucks violate that routinely. I’m near the crest of a hill so you can’t see traffic in either direction from more than 200 feet away. Making matters worse is that the road curves. Speed limit’s 35 but most go faster. There have been a couple bad accidents in the 20 years we’ve lived there, fortunately none involving me or my wife.
why didnt the people on the scene call shomrim to pin down the driver to the floor till the police comes to make sure he doesnt flee the scene ???
Why don’t you give out the picture ??
Not every driver needs to be listed. Only regular drivers, typically members of one’s household. That’s to make sure the rate you pay covers unmarried male drivers under 25 (or 30), like your sons. Plus, if you own a car, you generally have coverage on other peoples’ vehicles. Regardless of whom you let drive your car, you have the ultimate liability, unless the other driver’s insurance states that they’ll cover any losses up to the liability limit.
If you want to call me a crook, Arschloch, you can do it to my face, right up close and personal.