Judge convicts man of hit-and-run in accident involving orange rabbit-suited pedicab driver
By APFriday, October 30, 2009
Man convicted in orange rabbit pedicab hit-and-run
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Mercedes driver testified he didn’t see the 6-foot-tall orange rabbit driving a pedicab because he was fumbling for a dropped cell phone.
Pedicab driver Kate Altermatt tells The Oregonian she finds that hard to believe, noting she was wearing a bright orange bunny suit — for Easter — and her Cascadia Pedicab was lit up with reflectors and a blinking red light. She says the crash sent her flying and totaled the pedicab.
She confronted the driver Wednesday in Multnomah County Circuit Court.
After a daylong trial, Judge Karin Immergut found Edward Cespedes-Rodriguez guilty of hit and run driving for leaving the scene of the crash last April 12.
But Immergut cleared the 34-year-old Portland man of recklessly endangering another person.
Information from: The Oregonian, www.oregonlive.com
