Nadine Arslanian Menendez, whose Mercedes was severely damaged, was not taken into custody or tested for drugs and alcohol, according to The Record.
Nadine Arslanian Menendez, the wife and co-defendant of recently indicted Sen. Robert Menendez, struck and killed a man while driving in New Jersey in 2018, according to media reports.
The Record and The New York Times, citing police reports and police dash cam video, reported that Nadine Menendez, who was dating the senator at the time, was found by police in the small borough of Bogota to be “not at fault” in the crash in the because the victim, Richard Koop, was jaywalking. She was allowed to leave the scene.
Nadine, whose Mercedes was severely damaged, was not taken into custody or tested for drugs and alcohol, according to The Record. She was later joined at the scene by a retired cop from nearby Hackensack who told police that he didn’t know her but he was doing her a favor because she was a friend of his friend’s wife, according to The New York Times.
I’ve seen people jaywalking elsewhere, including Europe.
I like to bash the US as much as the next lemming, but don’t single out the US on this one.
Edit: Please disregard the above. I suck cocks.
Bruh only in the US will you get fined for doing so. Everywhere else, you’re fine.
You say that, but I’ve jaywalked in front of cops countless times in different states and I’ve never had them so much as say anything to me.
I really don’t think it’s enforced very much. Then again, I am white…
Oh cool!
Jaywalking shouldn’t be fine anywhere.
If there’s nothing coming, I’m not going to walk to the next crosswalk 200m away, I’m crossing where I am.
You do so at your own risk though
In many countries, jaywalking is perfectly legal. Drivers are expected to, you know, actually pay attention to the road and to not hit people.
In many other countries, ‘jaywalking’ is perfectly normal and legal outside of separated highways/motorways/throughways.
I don’t think the question is why do Americans cross outside of crosswalks, but why is the idea that crossing outside of a crosswalk is a taboo so common in the US? Jaywalking being bad is so ingrained in America that many people don’t even realize it’s not a taboo internationally.
The answer, of course, is that initially people in the US were upset by drivers killing people. Because of that, the auto industry invented the term jaywalking and spent a lot of money and effort on victim blaming. They were quite successful in America, but weren’t as successful in some other countries.
That’s objectively paid off for the US auto industry. In the Netherlands, the initial pushback to drivers starting to kill more and more people, the “stop the child-murder” protests lead to the Netherlands becoming so bike friendly.
I had misread the initial comment. Thanks for the explanation.