Feel good story for Thursday. Wow!

https://www.foxnews.com/us/ari...t-saves-family-video

‘Angel’ car saves Arizona family after smashing into suspected drunk driver running red light, video shows

By Stephen Sorace | Fox News


An Arizona driver praised as an “angel” by the police may have saved the lives of a couple pushing a stroller in a crosswalk, as her car smashed into a suspected drunk driver speeding through a red light — and coming just inches away from plowing into the family, dramatic street video shows.

The Phoenix Police Department released stunning video Wednesday of the close call. The footage shows the couple and their child had the right of way when they entered the crosswalk of a busy Phoenix intersection on the night of Oct. 14.

As they make their way across, a Jeep comes barreling through the intersection, freezing the family in place. At the same time, a Chevy Cruz enters the intersection and slams into the side of the Jeep just feet before it's set to strike the family.

The driver of the Jeep, 23-year-old Ernesto Oveso, and a female passenger got out of the vehicle and attempted to run away from the scene, FOX10 Phoenix reported.

As a witness followed the pair in their car, Oveso stabbed a door on the vehicle with a knife, the station reported.

Police eventually caught and arrested Oveso, but the woman managed to get away. Oveso was arrested for DUI and also faces charges of aggravated assault, the station reported. A gun was also reportedly found in the Jeep.

The 27-year-old woman driving the Chevy Cruz suffered non-life threatening injuries, police said.

The amount of pedestrian and MV fatalities in Phoenix is borderline astounding. The common denominator seems to usually be; Illegal, whose DWI.

Wonder if Ernesto is a “foreign exchange student”.



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The idiots turning left didn't help. Couldn't even give right of way to a baby stroller before making their left turn. I'd like to bitch slap them as well.
Wouldn't surprise me if Ernesto is on the wrong side of the border.

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Originally posted by Dakor:
The idiots turning left didn't help. Couldn't even give right of way to a baby stroller before making their left turn. I'd like to bitch slap them as well.
Wouldn't surprise me if Ernesto is on the wrong side of the border.

They probably had a green left turn arrow. One of my pet peeves is pedestrians crossing when they do not have right of way.

I'm glad they're okay, but how old were you when you taught to look both ways before you cross the street? I can't imagine walking across a busy intersection just because the light changed. I won't do that in a car.

Thanks you for posting this story.

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Originally posted by honestlou:
I'm glad they're okay, but how old were you when you taught to look both ways before you cross the street? I can't imagine walking across a busy intersection just because the light changed. I won't do that in a car.

As fast as that Jeep was moving and as slow as they were walking (like a pair of sloths), when the entered the street, the jeep would have been quite some distance away.

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Originally posted by zipriderson:

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Originally posted by Dakor:
The idiots turning left didn't help. Couldn't even give right of way to a baby stroller before making their left turn. I'd like to bitch slap them as well.
Wouldn't surprise me if Ernesto is on the wrong side of the border.

They probably had a green left turn arrow. One of my pet peeves is pedestrians crossing when they do not have right of way.

They had a pedestrian walk signal (look closely below the light on the left side of the video), which cars that have an orthogonal green light have to provide right of way to in all of the states I’ve lived in.

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Originally posted by Strambo:

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Originally posted by honestlou:
I'm glad they're okay, but how old were you when you taught to look both ways before you cross the street? I can't imagine walking across a busy intersection just because the light changed. I won't do that in a car.

As fast as that Jeep was moving and as slow as they were walking (like a pair of sloths), when the entered the street, the jeep would have been quite some distance away.

Well that is part of looking- someone hauling ass trying to beat the light. Speed and distance need to be accounted for. I'm not trying to be a jackass, and the blame goes to the jeep driver. But as a matter of practice when I'm driving I assume that pedestrians are going to try to walk in front of me, and as a pedestrian I assume that drivers are going to try to kill me.

Why is the car the angel if it was being driven? From the title, I thought it was a runaway vehicle that somehow collided with the vehicle about to run over the pedestrians.