Police: Man fled accident scene to avoid having an accident

[Tony_FLADEM]

A 29-year-old Gainesville man told police he left the scene of an accident Tuesday because he was afraid he was going to have an accident of another kind, officers reported.

Barnard W. Cato III was charged with DUI, hit and run and leaving the scene of an accident involving injury, a third-degree felony, after his car crashed into another vehicle and newspaper boxes at about 7:15 a.m. on Tuesday on the 2600 block of Northwest 13th Street.

According to a Gainesville Police Department report, Cato left the scene and ran toward the nearby Walmart store, where he was found a few minutes later.



http://www.gainesville.com/article/20120425/ARTICLES/120429776/1150/news09?Title=Police-Man-fled-accident-scene-to-avoid-having-an-accident&tc=ar

[pipoman]

1. If the WalMart cameras show him running

to the bathroom, he may actually have a defense to leaving the scene..

[Thor_MN]

2. First you say it, then you do it.

The motherly advice to wear clean underwear in case you are in an accident is irrelevant.

[Quantess]

3. Why is WalMart always in the picture

in these type of stories?