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'This Is Unacceptable': One Hit-and-Run Victim's Disappointing Experience With the NYPD
Four friends standing on a sidewalk were struck by a driver who fled, but police closed the case seemingly without even bothering to investigate.
Melody Wu was in New York from California visiting an old school friend. With a couple of other buddies, they had a fun Saturday night at a club in Hell’s Kitchen. But early on the morning of Sunday, July 20, the outing suddenly turned into a nightmare.
"[A]n aggressive fight broke out in the middle of the intersection of 48th St. and 11th Ave," Wu writes in an email. "Soon enough, one of the members of the fight hopped into his car nearby and was swerving at the intersection before he accelerated onto to [the] sidewalk where my friends and I were standing, and hit us."