{"id":213,"date":"2003-11-26T00:35:04","date_gmt":"2003-11-26T05:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/hit_and_run\/"},"modified":"2003-11-26T00:35:04","modified_gmt":"2003-11-26T05:35:04","slug":"hit_and_run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/hit_and_run\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hit and Run&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New technology, <a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/kgo\/news\/111903_nw_segway.html\">new dangers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There was a bizarre hit and run that took place in San Francisco on Tuesday between a 3-year-old girl and a Segway. It may be the first accident of it&#8217;s kind locally involving the motorized scooter which happens to be banned on city sidewalks. ABC7&#8217;s Jim Weider reports supervisors aren&#8217;t happy to hear the suspect got away.<br \/>\nThree-year-old Ruby Bleskacek sustained cuts, bruises and a nasty bump on her head.<br \/>\nPolice say this could be the Bay Area&#8217;s first injury accident by a Segway, known as a high-tech people mover. In 2002, Willie Brown and company helped usher them into San Francisco.<br \/>\nThe child was walking outside her father&#8217;s Potrero Hill store on Tuesday when a Segway ran her down. Witnesses say it was traveling about 10 miles per hour.<br \/>\nJoel Bleskacek, father: &#8220;I was quite angry and I confronted him. I asked him why he was driving so fast during the crowded lunch hour on the sidewalk. He claimed my daughter jumped in front of him.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe man fled the scene on his Segway. Police think he lives in the neighborhood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe not a pure hit-and-run incident, but why is the guy fleeing after hitting a three-year-old?  And why didn&#8217;t anyone run him down?<br \/>\nBeware of those high-speed Segways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/hit_and_run\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to &#8220;Hit and Run&#8221;\"><p>New technology, new dangers: There was a bizarre hit and run that took place in San Francisco on Tuesday between a 3-year-old girl and a Segway. It may be the first accident of it&#8217;s kind locally involving the motorized scooter which happens to be banned on city sidewalks. ABC7&#8217;s Jim Weider reports supervisors aren&#8217;t happy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}