Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Raquel Nelson

Greater Atlanta Continues to Treat Walking Like a Crime

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 2, 2012 | 8 Comments

Despite the national outrage over the Raquel Nelson case, officials in metro Atlanta continue to treat pedestrians like criminals. Last Wednesday, a 35-year-old woman was hospitalized after being struck by a vehicle while attempting to cross a road in northwest Atlanta. A local Fox affiliate reports that the woman suffered injuries and is in “stable” condition. […]

Georgia Prosecutor Continues Case Against Raquel Nelson

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 11, 2012 | 20 Comments

The impaired hit-and-run driver who struck and killed her son on a metro Atlanta road in 2010 has been released from prison by now, but Raquel Nelson is still being prosecuted for her purported role in the tragedy. The single mother of three was injured trying to prevent the collision that killed four-year-old A.J. Newman. […]

Raquel Nelson Back in Court, With High Profile Lawyer at Her Defense

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 17, 2012 | 3 Comments

Raquel Nelson, the Georgia woman who faced vehicular homicide charges last year when her four-year-old son was killed by a hit-and-run driver, is back in court this week, appealing the results of her trial. Nelson is asking a Georgia appeals court to dismiss charges of vehicular manslaughter and jaywalking rather than proceed with the retrial […]

Streetsies 2011: Bums and Bummers

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 29, 2011 | 2 Comments

On our walk down the memory lane of 2011 so far, we’ve talked about some downers, some inspirations, some triumphs, and some struggles. Check out our first two installments of year-end Streetsie award nostalgia. Here’s some more. Best Obama Plan That Died a Slow and Horrible Death This Year: How to choose, when there were […]

T4America Responds to the Raquel Nelson Case in the Washington Post

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 5, 2011 | 7 Comments

The first shocking thing about Raquel Nelson’s conviction for vehicular homicide was simply that it happened at all. After all, the mother of three wasn’t even driving a car — she was crossing a wide street with poor pedestrian infrastructure when her four-year-old son was killed by a hit-and-run driver. The second shocking thing about […]

Raquel Nelson Likely to Opt For a New Trial, Her Lawyer Says

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 26, 2011 | 6 Comments

UPDATE 7/27: Raquel Nelson has, in fact, chosen the option of a new trial. The last thing the jury heard from Raquel Nelson’s defense lawyer, before they convicted her, was the tape of her frantic 911 call after her son, A.J., was hit by a car. “1-2-3-4-5-6, doing chest compressions on her son, screaming,” recalls […]

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