Driver plows car into Virginia couple,
killing wife as she joined husband on
his nightly walk for the first time
Daily Mail,
by
Martha Williams
Original Article
Posted By: mc squared,
3/28/2024 11:01:59 AM
A driver has been charged with second-degree murder over the death of a woman out walking with her husband.
Derek Bizzell said that it was the first time his 42-year-old wife Shaunda had joined him on his evening exercise when they were run-down by a car.
The pair were walking the second lap of his standard loop of the neighborhood in Chesterfield, Virginia, when they saw the vehicle veer from the middle of the street towards them.
'We walked around the curb. We could see a car coming up the middle of the street like cars always do, and then he got closer to us,' Derek Bizzell told KCRG.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 3/28/2024 11:10:40 AM (No. 1687592)
A very sad story, but .....could they have been more alert to the danger and jumped clear? I don't know in this case.
I have no idea if this was intentional or not, sound like maybe intentional. But I was taught to always walk FACING traffic so that you could be looking at all oncoming cars, and jump out of the way if necessary.
Today so many seem blissfully unaware of this concept, and they walk in the same direction of traffic, cars coming up behind them and they don't turn around and look, 100% blind faith in whatever random stranger is driving along with whatever kind or drugs or alcohol in his/her system or hate in his/her heart. And so many have all dark clothing on, nothing light colored, no reflectors when walking along the road at night, back to traffic.
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#1 - Appalling time to armchair quarterback. Going on his routine nightly walk with his wife in a quiet neighborhood 20 miles outside Richmond is hardly the time to think you need to be alert for danger, especially for a car to intentionally speed into them. A woman was murdered, and any insinuation it was her fault she met her demise because she wasn't observant in a seemingly 100% safe scenario is heartless, IMHO.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
joew9 3/28/2024 11:49:58 AM (No. 1687638)
Sounds more like 1st degree murder to me. I think 2nd degree is a little light. Hopefully the prosecutor will up the charge after some more investigation.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Californian 3/28/2024 11:53:28 AM (No. 1687642)
1,2, yes they should walk facing traffic, there is no such thing as a safe scenario, but this piece of garbage with a record of calling in threats to kill people shouldn't have been allowed in public.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Safari Man 3/28/2024 11:55:06 AM (No. 1687645)
Dimocrats: SITYS, we've gotta ban assault vehicles.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 3/28/2024 11:59:16 AM (No. 1687650)
RE #2, one ALWAYS needs to be alert for danger. Sorry if that concept escapes you or offends you, but it is fact. Is there always someone out to hurt you? No, but sometimes people are inattentive, or on drugs or alcohol, and depending on THEM to keep YOU safe is a very poor policy.
I drive motorcycles and the two best pieces of advice that I got from more experienced riders were "If you are in a position where a car driver can hit you, you need to move." And "you must assume you are invisible and that YOU are responsible for avoiding collisions, not the other guys."
Same when walking, especially at night. ANYWHERE.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
smokincol 3/28/2024 12:37:50 PM (No. 1687684)
this is the saddest story I've seen in a while (there have been worse stories but this one is really very sad) because there is no reason for this to have happened
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For all of the armchair quarterback professional car dodgers out there, if you read the article, they WERE walking facing traffic and tried to dodge out of the way once they saw him veer towards them. I thought it was appalling to post such callous remarks, but at least read the article and you'd see they were behaving just like an expert, such as yourselves.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Birddog 3/28/2024 4:04:35 PM (No. 1687823)
Perp was "Known to authorities" as he had been making numerous false 911 calls about bomb threats, school shootings, threats to police, terrorist attacks", he was free on the streets because....Why exactly? Are his parents wealthy , Connected? Is he "Intersectional" in some way?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Snow Possum 3/28/2024 5:34:17 PM (No. 1687866)
More than 20 years ago (possibly 25) there was a time when CourtTV was actually court proceedings. There was a case of a man who hired a hit man to kill his wife in a parking garage as both he and his wife would exit the car. The hit man struck her, leaving her with brain damage. I remember that she was still able to testify and stated that her husband kept insisting that she wear a red dress that she did not want to wear.
First walk with the wife joining. I am suspicious. The article stated this was an intentional act. Strangers rarely carry out intentional acts unless there is something else involved.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
mifla 3/29/2024 8:21:12 AM (No. 1688171)
Two women from my church were out on their morning walk together when a speeding car came around the corner and mowed them down. Car did not stop, but the teenage driver was later arrested. One woman was not expected to live given the head trauma, and was given last rites by our parish pastor. In nothing short of a miracle, she survived. The other woman was left crippled after the accident, spent months in a wheelchair, then a cane, and now is walking on her own, but slower than she used to. Always stay alert around traffic. Too many bad drivers out there.
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I seem to recall a time, long ago, when we were told 'if you see something - say something'. Now, even the justice system sees MULTIPLE threats but does - what?