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My driver and I were going down a somewhat busy road with a posted 35mph speed limit around 7:30am this morning as part of the routine route we run. So were going westbound and about 500ft ahead, we see a small black lab run across the street to go take a wiz on a telephone poll. First thing my driver says was "Man, hes gonna get hit if he crosses that road again". Sure as ****, when we approached the dog, he darted right in front of us... luckily, my driver was going slow enough where the big rig came to a complete stop... as the dog darted in front of us, a large box truck, going at least 45 was going eastbound towards us. All i see is the box truck thump twice and continue off... and my driver looks down and says "Aww man that poor dog got hit." I said "Stop the truck." So as I jump out I can here the dog yelping (such a sickening yelp at that) and see the dog dragging himself to the side of the road with one of his front legs (his back legs and torso was dragging on the ground)... he couldnt make it to the side of the road so I picked the dog up carefully and placed him on the sidewalk... the dog stopped yelping and the look that dog gave me will stick with me for quite a while. I started petting him saying "It's gonna be alright buddy". I look at his legs and 3 of them are fractured, his jaw was all bloodied up, and the front leg that wasnt broken had roadrash down to the bone. His head was still moving around, just mustve been in the state of shock. So I call the cops and told them about the situation and they said they would send a squad car and animal control right away. And suddenly the dog's head dropped, laying there like a stiff board and started panting. He gave about 5 quick breaths and stopped breathing. I look down the road and see the box truck has not returned... So an old woman came out of her house that was in front of the incident and kinda froze, and had a sigh of relief and she said "I have a black lab, but mine is right here at the door, I dont know who's it is". A minute or so goes by, and sure enough, the box truck has turned around and parks in front of our truck. The driver gets out, walks over to my driver and said maybe two sentences. He started walking away and I yelled "Didnt you see him on the side of the road? You shouldnt have been going that fast in the first place, cuz now we have a dead dog here". The guy shrugged his shoulders, and said "I'm sorry", and got back into his truck and left. I grabbed the license plate number. A cop calls me back right after that, and said that he has a box truck currently pulled over, I read off the plate number and told him that the guy just left the scene after giving a lame apology. As I hang up the phone, two houses down a mother comes running out of her house with a 20 or so y/o son and yells the dogs name (which was Buddy, what a coincidence) and starts hyperventilating. The son starts crying, then two little kids come running out, they start crying. It was such a bad situation, I felt really really bad for them. The cop came, stood there for 5 minutes and let the family mourn, and asked if they wanted him to call animal control or are they gonna care for the dog themselves, which is what they replied with. Then the son picked up the pup and walked away with him, and the mother seemed to calm down just a little bit, and asked me what happened. So I gave her the rundown, and she just completely lost it. She cried "Thank you for trying to care for Buddy". Everyone left the scene and that was that. I have never felt that bad for the dog, ive never really felt that bad for a person, but a dog is like a family member, and to see someone run him over, and just shrug his shoulders about it really pissed me off.

The dog was only a year old.