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Swimmer drowned; sunbather injured as rescuers accidentally run him over with SUV
The summer beach season got off to a deadly and calamitous start yesterday as a Brooklyn man drowned at Long Beach and authorities racing to help another swimmer accidentally ran over a sunbather, crushing his spine.
Witnesses say the driver of the police SUV had no clue he had run over the sunbather until he was flagged down by beachgoers. The victim was taken to a nearby hospital and said to have a broken spine and rib.
Family asked to pay for car damage after dog run over
A car insurer has asked a Canadian family to pay for repairing a broken bumper after their dog was struck by the vehicle and died, local media said Thursday.
The traffic accident occurred in March while Jake, a 12-year-old yellow Labrador, was out for his daily stroll around a quiet neighborhood in Aurora, Ontario, north of Toronto.
Kim Flemming had let the dog out when she arrived home from work. Moments later, a man knocked on the door to say a car had run over Jake.
Two months later, the family received a bill in the mail for 1,732.80 Canadian dollars (1,648.95 US) from State Farm Insurance.
The letter said Flemming had been found responsible for damage to the vehicle. "As such, we are looking to you for reimbursement," it reportedly stated.
State Farm spokesman John Bordignon told the Star: "They could have made sure their dog wasn't free on the roadway."
A local bylaw requires pets to be on a leash when off the owner's property, but the Flemmings said Jake had become accustomed to roaming outside the family's home.
Swedish court convicts dead man for assault
A 26-year-old man was tried on charges assault in Stockholm district court on May 27th 2009. While the court found him not guilty the prosecutor elected to appeal the case.
When the date for the hearing arrived, on April 19th 2010, the court concluded after a delay that the defendant would not be attending, but it was decided that the matter could be dealt with in absentia.
The Svea Court of Appeal overturned the district court ruling and found the man guilty of assault, issuing a fine of 15,000 ($1,886) and setting a deadline date for an appeal of May 24th.
But information submitted to the court after the hearing indicates that an appeal is not to be expected as the convicted man died on March 25th 2010.
"Now the appeals court has in the meantime convicted a deceased person, without any prior convictions, which existing rules do not allow," Malmö chief prosecutor Jörgen Lindberg writes in a letter appealing the court's ruling.
"In such circumstances the prosecutor should take the initiative to request this, in my view erroneous, conviction changed and the district court's ruling confirmed, or alternatively set aside."
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