Police Nab Man In Dramatic Hit-And-Run [Video]

Upstate New York man arrested for driving into pedestrians, sending one flying

Authorities in Buffalo, N.Y. have released dramatic surveillance video of a pedestrian sent flipping into the air, after a driver struck him, narrowly missing a few others.

From an MSNBC report:

The footage is extremely graphic," Mayor Byron Brown said at a news conference Monday, adding that he was releasing it in response to a slew of hit-and-run accidents in the region recently. "The purpose for showing this video footage is to dramatize how dangerous hit and run accidents are."

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