person you know getting hit, ..by a car? Options

[jue]

Well, today after school and rehearsal for this competition i was in, one of my friends.. well more of an aquaintance[sp?] she was hit by a car across Queens Blvd. I heard that she was standing in the middle of the road and the car just came and hitted her. I wasn't there so actually see her getting hit by the car, but after hearing the details from people who saw it, i was like Like during school, i was in one of her classes, everything was alright. She was laughing and everything, and the next thing you know.. she's in the hospital right now. And what's so messed up is that, her own boyfriend, he didn't show no sign of like sympathy.. nothing. He was just like "Oh.. is basketball practice canceled today..?" Not only that, everyone was like she deserves it, and making fun of the accident. People were going "Well, after that crash maybe her nose will get smaller." or "that female dog deserves it" I mean no matter how much you hate someone.. that's kinda mean to say something like that to someone who just got hit by a car. I don't know if its just me or not, but it seems that this year, there's been so many accidents occuring. A few months ago, one of my friends brother got ran over by a bus.
Anywhoo, has anyone known someone who's been in an accident similar to the one above? And what do you think about this whole thing and how people are making fun of her.

[think!IMAGINARIL...]

Queens Boulevard is called the Boulevard of Death 'cause many people die while trying to cross it.
do you know Francis Lewis HS in Fresh Meadows? about 2 months ago, a senor at Franny Lew got hit by a car and lost his/her leg while crossing Utopia Parkway. my school, Ryan MS 216 is a few blocks away from where that person got hit. and my house is just a couple of blocks away from where it happened, so i'm like really scared whenever i cross the street.
and there's this carwash nearby my school, and i heard about this but i'm not sure if it really happened though. i heard that like one of the employees at the carwash like slipped while a car was still driving and the car ran over his head. it happened the same week!
it was scary. my friend told me to "pray before you cross the street."
making fun of someone after they got hit by a car is mean. unless they really deserved it. (the being made fun of part. not the being hit by a car part.)

[waccoon]

Queens Boulevard is called the Boulevard of Death 'cause many people die while trying to cross it.
do you know Francis Lewis HS in Fresh Meadows? about 2 months ago, a senor at Franny Lew got hit by a car and lost his/her leg while crossing Utopia Parkway. my school, Ryan MS 216 is a few blocks away from where that person got hit. and my house is just a couple of blocks away from where it happened, so i'm like really scared whenever i cross the street.
and there's this carwash nearby my school, and i heard about this but i'm not sure if it really happened though. i heard that like one of the employees at the carwash like slipped while a car was still driving and the car ran over his head. it happened the same week!
it was scary. my friend told me to "pray before you cross the street."
making fun of someone after they got hit by a car is mean. unless they really deserved it. (the being made fun of part. not the being hit by a car part.)

It's not called the Boulevard of Death..

Anyways, nobody would get hit if you just paid some goddamned attention to the lights. People are constantly j-walking Queens Boulevard, and they wonder why people die. Not like they weren't warned, they put up a sign that says "CROSS WITH CARE, PEDESTRIANS HAVE DIED HERE."

[think!IMAGINARIL...]

It's not called the Boulevard of Death..

Anyways, nobody would get hit if you just paid some goddamned attention to the lights. People are constantly j-walking Queens Boulevard, and they wonder why people die. Not like they weren't warned, they put up a sign that says "CROSS WITH CARE, PEDESTRIANS HAVE DIED HERE."

Yes, it is.

The combination of Queens Boulevard's immense width, heavy automobile traffic and thriving commercial scene made it the most dangerous thoroughfare in New York City and earned it citywide notoriety and morbid nicknames such as "The Boulevard of Death" and "The Boulevard of Broken Bones." From 1993 to 2000, 72 pedestrians were killed trying to cross the street, an average of 10.2 per year, with countless more injuries. Since 2001, at least partially in response to major news coverage of the danger, the city government has taken measures to cut down on such incidents, including posting large signs proclaiming that "A Pedestrian Was Killed Crossing Here" at intersections where fatal accidents have occurred and installing more road-rule enforcement cameras. These efforts worked: during all of 2004, only one pedestrian was killed while trying to cross Queens Boulevard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens_Boulevard