Justice after a horrible accident

[Adinah]

From the ASPA's website:
ASPCA: News Alert: January 16, 2009

Early last month, five-month-old pit bull Gigi and her owner were crossing the street near their Staten Island home when suddenly a car struck the puppy. According to Gigi’s owner, the car was on the wrong side of the street. The driver left the scene of the accident without providing any information to the puppy’s devastated owner. Sadly, Gigi succumbed to her injuries and died at a nearby animal hospital. The ASPCA was notified of the incident two days later and promptly began an investigation.

On December 27, ASPCA Humane Law Enforcement agents arrested the alleged hit-and-run driver, Rafael Lauda, on multiple charges stemming from the accident. Lauda, 22, was charged with leaving the scene of an accident with injury to an animal and driving with a suspended license. If convicted of all charges, he faces more than a year in jail.

[angelicarboreals]

How pitiful for the owner. I have a friend who watched her Jack Russell get struck by a car. Her dog ran out the door of her house when she opened it to go get the mail and was in the road before she could stop her. Losing a pet like that is a very sad thing indeed.