Should We Be Shaming the Woman Who Saw a Fatal Car Crash and Walked Away Eating Pizza? [View all]

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The white spot by the car wheel is the victim. Pizza woman, stopped took a look at the victim, then took a big bite of pizza. Much discussion about her actions on internet

Video footage from security cameras near the site of a fatal Sunday car crash in Brooklyn shows a woman turning toward the crash an instant after it happens, then turning back around and walking away while eating pizza:

The DNAInfo site reports that a 30-year-old woman on the sidewalk was killed when the car—driven by an unlicensed, uninsured 39-year-old man who has been cited three times since Nov. 18 for speeding in school zones—suddenly swerved over the curb and hit her.


Reaction online has not been kind to the woman with the pizza, for obvious reasons: It seems like she's being incredibly heartless. It's probably worth noting, though, that going into shock during and in the immediate aftermath of catastrophic events is apparently a frequent enough occurrence that there's a technical name for it: "peritraumatic dissociation," which can involve "emotional numbing, reduction in awareness of one's surroundings, depersonalization, and amnesia." That's according to this journal article in the National Institutes of Health's library, which says that reports of such phenomena in the aftermath of shocking events are "very common." In other words, while we can praise the individuals in the video who ran toward the crash to help, it seems entirely possible that the woman who walked away was not making a consciously callous choice but simply wasn't in her right mind.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/12/07/brooklyn_car_crash_video_woman_sees_accident_eats_pizza_walks_away.html


VIDEO: Woman Eats Pizza While Walking Away From Fatal Fort Greene Crash

FORT GREENE — Surveillance video appeared to capture a woman calmly munching on a slice of pizza moments after an unlicensed driver hurtled onto a curb and fatally struck a 30-year-old woman Sunday on Fulton Street.

In the video, the hungry witness is shown turning to look back at the victim, Victoria Nicodemus, lying beneath the wheels of a Chevrolet, but continuing to walk down the street unfazed after the crash near South Portland Place about 5:26 p.m.

Just before walking off screen, the woman lifts her slice and takes a bite while others race to the victim's aid, the video shows.

"I don't know how you could keep eating your pizza and keep walking. There's no reason," said Lerima Guadelupe, 32, who works at a nearby bakery and saw the surveillance footage.

"At least try. Make it your business to help. Not OK. ... Wouldn't you want to help?" Guadelupe added.
http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20151207/fort-greene/video-woman-eats-pizza-while-walking-away-from-fatal-fort-greene-crash