Hit and Run

Personal responsibility is dead in America.

One clear sign of this truth: Hit and run accidents. Nearly every day I hear or read in the news that someone has either died or has been severely injured in an auto accident where the others involved have fled the scene.

Just this morning I read of a motorcyclist here in Hollywood that was hit by an Explorer Sport-Trac. The driver, described as a woman, got out and inspected, and then fled. The report stated that the man driving the motorcycle was graciously killed upon impact, because what happened next is gross — the bike and the man were on fire.

The woman, whose lone passenger was a child, got back into her vehicle and fled the scene. Furthermore, witnesses describe other vehicles simply driving by the entire scene as if that were normal — because no one wants to be involved.

I hope they catch this person. Who knows, it may have been the motorcyclist's fault, but now that doesn't really matter. [In Miami a woman who cannot show she even has a drivers' license, hit and severely injured an Ontario man. She's been caught and arrested.]

And I hope that every single one of us would have the courage, courtesy, and love to stop and remain on the scene.

"The roads of Zion are in mourning …" (Lamentations 1:4).