Running away from responsibilities

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Ok, i just want to rant. And well people here probably met somebody who just rans away from responsibilities. I was working when my aunt knocked on my door. There has been an accident, my uncle has been in a motorcycle accident. Basically, with that the whole 'compound' woke up. In my culture, when you say compound, it's a group of houses under 1 address. Basically in our compound, we have 8 houses, with 8 different families, under 1 address. My immediate neighbours are my relatives. Well back to the story, he had an accident and my aunt needed to go to the hospital to attend to him. Money is scarce and being a close-knit family, everybody tried to contribute a little to make up a whole lot. The story is this, my uncle was in his motorcycle on his way to pick up my other aunt from work. On his way, another motorcycle collided with him. The driver was drunk. Witnesses saw the other driver tried to run away. Now where i live, drivers of motorcycles have some kind of common bond, even if they don't know each other. The other drivers stopped the drunk driver. Fast forward, my uncle and the drunk driver was rushed to an emergency facility nearby. The drunk driver for the 2nd time tried to run away. A physician checked them and recommended my uncle to be rushed to a hospital. Why? Because his jaw was smashed and his knee was smashed. The drunk driver, nothing but a few scratches. He was unharmed. Came the police to sort things out, and the drunk started acting like he was the victim in this whole situation. We arrived just in time to stop the drunk from going home. We asked the police to detain him. Physician who checked him wanted to take him to the hospital, his wife didn't want to. Visually he seems ok, and there are times we catch him walking straight up without any worries, the moment they see us watching them he and his wife started their act again. They got a cab and all of a sudden the drunk can walk straight and fast. They walked so fast the police had to chase them. Eventually, they were detained and jailed. Basically because the drunk was driving under the influence and without a license. I just hate it. He caused my uncle those injuries and he has the guts to run away. He was unharmed but he didn't care about the other person in the accident. I just don't get it. How can people run away from their responsibilities? He had a responsibility to my uncle. I'm just ranting. I just hate what happened tonight.