If you're riding your bike in Greenpoint and you get hit by a car, the cops might not do anything →
This is a photo of Michelle Matson, a young woman who was riding her bike one night in Greenpoint. She was hit by a car and thrown 20 feet forward; the car sped off. Her skull was fractured. Her C-spine, the neck’s cervical vertebrae, was broken. Her lower left leg was shattered; the break was so severe that doctors couldn’t set the bones for a week.
When her boyfriend returned home after Michelle was moved, he found a note from the police that said they had located the car that had caused the accident. But that was the extent of the action they took to help the couple. Even though the ditched car was found within 24 hours, a 1990 Nissan Maxima abandoned two blocks southeast of the accident scene, the police would never make any arrests. And that the detective assigned to the case would tell James, as the victim has consistently recalled for months, that the vehicle owner claimed he’d lost his keys at a local bar that same night and walked home—and that without an eyewitness putting him in the driver’s seat, there was nothing that could be done.
