Officer runs over Sunbather

[NakedGary]

Sacramento Bee July 5th [Associated Press]

Daytona Beach, FL

A beach patrol officer who drove over a sunbather as she lay in the sand will be ticketed for careless driving and fined $115 officials said.

Officer Robert Augustynowski, 43 drove his pickup diagonally across Danielle Taylor as she sunbather Monday near the Main Street Pier. The Volusia County officer was driving at about 2.5 miles per hour, according to the Florida Highway Patrol

Taylor, 20 of Fort Stewart GA, was taken to Halifax Medical Center, Beach Patrol Capt. Scott Petersohn said Taylor was "awake and alert and talking" after the accident.
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[NakedGary]

Sacramento Bee July 5th [Associated Press]

Daytona Beach, FL

A beach patrol officer who drove over a sunbather as she lay in the sand will be ticketed for careless driving and fined $115 officials said.

Officer Robert Augustynowski, 43 drove his pickup diagonally across Danielle Taylor as she sunbather Monday near the Main Street Pier. The Volusia County officer was driving at about 2.5 miles per hour, according to the Florida Highway Patrol

Taylor, 20 of Fort Stewart GA, was taken to Halifax Medical Center, Beach Patrol Capt. Scott Petersohn said Taylor was "awake and alert and talking" after the accident.
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[BeachBum]

OUCH!!! I read somewhere that a sunbather in the dunes was run over by some folks on 4-wheelers when they "jumped" the dunes. Guess you can't escape danger -- even on the beach!!

[Naturist Mark]

A much more tragic accident happened last month in Oxnard, CA when officers on beach patrol ran over and killed a woman sunbathing on the beach.

Police patrol runs over sunbather on beach (http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/14823408.htm)

-Mark

[Ken Palmer]

I read and heard about that one definitely. That was very frightening indeed. I can't understand how the officer did not see the sunbather in the sand. Well, I guess we better not ever fall asleep in the sands ever again on the beaches!

Ken Palmer


<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Naturist Mark:
A much more tragic accident happened last month in Oxnard, CA when officers on beach patrol ran over and killed a woman sunbathing on the beach.

Police patrol runs over sunbather on beach (http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/14823408.htm)

-Mark </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

[Buzzer]

http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/cool4.gif Maybe we have to "flag" our presence. Orange cones, flags,?

[KetchumMaine]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by NakedGary:
Sacramento Bee July 5th [Associated Press]
The Volusia County officer was driving at about 2.5 miles per hour, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I have yet to see ANYBODY drive 2.5 miles per hour. How do you measure that?? Most speedometers start at 5 or 10 miles per hour. If he was operating at such a slow speed, how did he run over someone?? How did she not have time to get out of the way ( notice him, make a sandwich, eat the sandwich, digest the sandwich, comb her hair, pick up her things, and get out of the way)? Either 2.5 mph is a typo, or somebody is lying.