the man who hit the family and never stopped, reportedly admitted drinking "a little" alcohol earlier in the day. He also admitted to being on painkillers and being partially blind in one eye
It's a miracle only one person died
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Fuck that police department. That is 1000% the fault of a car centric society.
The prosecutor who filed the charges and the judge who gave the charges the time of day are equally if not more evil than the police here.
I'm curious what the speed limit of the road was. It blows my mind how fast we let cars drive in residential areas. The fact that these kids can't walk 2 blocks safety between the grocery store and home-- or put another way, that if they don't use the crosswalk between home and the grocery store, there's a serious risk of death-- is such a failure of city planning and societal values.
Neither article mentions how far it would be had they used the crosswalk, but I'd guess, with a 4 lane road, for two kids it was really out of the way.
How heartbreaking. 7 years old. As a parent you can't say, "yeah, you can walk two blocks home,"? Land of the free, but no autonomy for people without a car.
Speed limits don’t work. The crazy thing is how North America routinely builds roads that are far too wide even if they’re just two lanes. There is no reason why a two lane suburban road should be three lanes wide + street parking but that’s just how the place is setup. This isn’t a random theory, either, but a very well documented problem.
Strange to say, since data in Australia shows that speed limit reductions in fact, have worked..
Speed limits will slow people down, just not nearly as well and as reliably as building roads properly. Despite having very little knowledge of Australia I have heard that police there can be pretty ruthless about speeding tickets, too.
Appropriately wide roads are better for everyone, even for drivers who don’t need to feel like they’re crawling when the speed limit is much lower than the road can physically support(even if it’s context cannot). Punishing some dangerous drivers after they’ve already done dangerous driving is so much less helpful than slowing people down to begin with.
And the best part is that slower roads are often made, especially when retrofitting existing ones, by putting in greenery and/or giving pedestrians and bicycles more elbow room and safe places to be.
Here in Sweden, me and my sister walked alone to school every day since we started at seven years old, I remember the day before the first day at school, mom walked us to and from school to show us the way we should walk to be safe, this included crossing a commuter railroad and several intersections. When we were in year four, the school allowed students to bike to school.
Quite the difference in thinking about cars and safety....
That happens here too. I walked from 3rd grade until graduating High School. Rain or shine.
I remember getting a spiffy red bike in middle school because the new school was miles away. It was sweet. Except I kept forgetting/losing the combination to my lock. I felt a little grown up when I got a lock with a key. Ha!
As for the article, that's horrible. Part of driving is being alert and responsible for the unexpected. Arresting the parents is straight up fucked.
When we were in year four, the school allowed students to bike to school.
That's so awesome.
If you're so smart, maybe tell me where we should murder children, if not the street?
Gaza seems to be an approved place to do it. At least by all the west that are still supplying the weapons to do it.
And, really, just brown children of the third world in general.
Okay, true, abd that's a pretty great spot to do it, but americans are proud R strategists! Are you telling me we need to put the weakest of our young in shipping containers and take them all the way to gaza before killing them!?
Gaza , Ukraine both seem popular places to kill kids.
Driveways also seem popular.
Okay but this is about americans killing *american kids, so gaza and ukraine seem terrible; they're so far away!
Driveways are a great idea though. I hadnt considered that. You mightve just cracjed this whole thing wide open. Like...
I wonder if the outcome would have been the same if it was a black driver and a white kid.