Robert Novak Hits Pedestrian With His Black Corvette, Cited By DC Police

Politico's Jonathan Harris and Chris Frates report that Robert Novak was cited by DC police Wednesday morning after hitting a pedestrian with his black Corvette:

Syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak was cited by police after he hit a pedestrian with his black Corvette in downtown Washington, D.C., on Wednesday morning.

A Politico reporter saw Novak in the front of a police car with a citation in his hand; a WJLA-TV crew and reporter saw Novak as well. The pedestrian, a 66-year-old male, was hospitalized at George Washington University Hospital with minor injuries, according to DC Fire and EMS. Novak was later released by police and drove away from the scene.

"I didn't know I hit him. I feel terrible," a shaken Novak told reporters from Politico and WJLA as he was returning to his car. "He's not dead, that's the main thing." Novak said he was a block away from 18th and K streets Northwest, where the accident happened, when a bicyclist stopped him and said, "You hit someone." He said he was cited for failing to yield the right of way.

The bicyclist was David Bono, a partner at Harkins Cunningham, who was on his usual bike commute to work at 1700 K St. N.W. when he saw the accident happen.

As he traveled east on K Street, crossing 18th, Bono said a "black Corvette convertible with top closed plowed into the guy. The guy is sort of splayed onto the windshield."

Watch a local DC news report on the Novak pedestrian accident:

In an exclusive interview with TMZ, Novak admitted that he was at fault but blamed NPR for distracting him while driving:

Novak tells us he was listening to NPR in his Corvette when suddenly, "Some guy came up and hit my car with his fist. I figured I had done something that had created road rage, but I didn't know what it was. Then a bicyclist blocked the road in front of me. I asked what the problem was. He said, 'You can't just hit people and run away!'"

Novak says the cops came, put him "briefly" in the back of the police car and asked about what he heard at the time of impact. Novak told them and us that he didn't hear or feel anything. They asked if he had been drinking or on a cellphone. He answered "no" to both.

Novak, who was citied for failing to yield, says he won't fight the ticket, adding, "I assume witnesses are telling the truth."

Comments

[armadillious2002]

Typical repub - tried to hit and run - run from the consequences - above the law - they are all from the same mold.

[WAstateliberal]

You know what happens when regular, non-rich, non-powerful, non-celebrity people hit someone, leave the scene, and put that person in the hospital? It's called felony hit and run. 22 months, roughly, in the Department of Corrections. But I forgot, we are two busy wringing our hands over Obama's FISA vote to pay attention to the two Americas of our criminal justice system (to include application of the Fourth Amendment).

[TheRebel82]

What a clown! Glad he got caught!

[MissDirection]

The real story was not even covered...
This is a hit and run...with a witness....and Novac gets to just drive away? No sobriety tests (breath or blood)? No confiscation of his vehicle while things are sorted out? People who operate out of DC expect to be treated by different standards...AND THEY ARE. So are we then surprised when it goes to their heads? The SHEER MADNESS of letting him just drive away is the real story.

[newunderground]

Happens to me all the time, what's the big deal. You libruls are always trying to bring amerika down.
(LOL)

[bluedotinafieldofred]

Novakula again shows his keen journalistic eye. The interesting part will be how the victim gets blamed.

[KansasKowboy]

I hope the guy that got hit by Novak sues him BIG TIME!!!!

[connski]

hit and run Novak? ..... don't plame him!!!

[bayside]

The guy he hit came up on his windshield. Dont tell me he didnt know he hit him and why did he keep trying to get away .. A good sam. on a bike saw him get hit and run and chased him got in front of him until police came. Still Novak kept trying to get away. Novak was charged with failure to yield after he hit a ped. in walk and fled..Must be nice to get special treatment from police. Riduculous

[indypete]

Groan!

(I resent that I didn't think of that one!)

[hypnus]

LOL!!!!!

[londubh]

Hey you kids! Get off my hood!

[RButler]

Good one. It's really a case of 'driving while Novak' or does he have some kind of diplomatic immunity?

[rocketJsquirrel]

somebody must have hit his moving car with their fist??!!!
and he only got away with a ticket?
lucky old white washington insider.

[indypete]

Medes and Persians, dude, Medes and Persians.

[leftintheoven]

His mind was on the McCain camp who used him for publicity. He was pissed about that. But he doesn't realize he has been used by repug operatives for years. And all that time he thought he was breaking big stories based on his reporting prowess. Poor miserable sap.

I feel bad that the incident occurred, especially for the injured person.

[01202009]

Hit and Run, plain and simple. Go directly to jail, Novak! You’re lying through your traitorous teeth.

[gfm975]

My God Novak, you hit a cyclist and he is splattered onto your windshield and you still want to claim you didn't know you hit him? Who the hell do you think you are... George W Bush, Dickless Cheney, Rummy, or Condi Rice?

[ann1]

Hopefully he'll take this as a warning and change his lying ways.

[RButler]

The guy he hit was against dropping taxes on capital gains. Novak is going after them one at a time.

[thepeoplechoose]

Novak enters a plea of stupidity.

Now that is believeable.