OK! So, late last year around 10p.m. a girl was crossing the street by my house. She was 10 years old and got hit by a car and died. I find myself to be a compassionate person, but honestly, don't you think it's the parents fault for letting their kid go out that late and play in the street? So, now, every store in town has a petition being signed to put more street lights in. Do you think that will help? There are 3 street lights within about 150 feet of where she got hit. In other words, she got hit UNDER A STREET LIGHT and there was one not far to the left and not far to the right. I went into the gas station yesterday and flipped over the petition being signed. I told them they could petition all they wanted, but that's not going to stop people from hitting people in the road-especially not kids whose parents let them go out at that time. Any opinions? This is driving me nuts!
I'm sure they have, too. But no one can change what happened. It's like cars now-they are making cars safer-but what will that do for the driver? If they really don't want people getting run over and dying-make a padded car that doesn't go faster than 5 mph-haha
Yeah, the parents really should have been a little more aware.....you would think a ten year old would not be out so late at night, but I think I was able to cross the street fine at that age. If the area where she was hit is a high accident area, then maybe something should be done....reduced speed limit, more lights or signs..... You also have to realize that most drivers could be a little more careful....I'm sure you have seen how many animals get mowed down on a daily basis....deer, child, it could happen to anyone or anything....people don't seem to slow down for much whether it is darkness, rain, snow, bikers..... I'm sure it was a bunch of things that contributed to this situation.....the child's parents, the road condition, time of day and speed....either way, it is damn sad.
hell, at age ten i'd been cooking, cleaning and taking care of myself for YEARS. ten is not too old to cross the street in front of your house. even at 10PM. more streetlights, though, is just the aprents trying to find a way to share the burden of their agony. i don't think it'll help at all. speed bumps in residential areas on through streets have been working REALLY well here. but that didn't stop a little girl and her cousin from being mowed down in broad daylight by a boy in a truck. people for some reason consider their speed and road dominance to be some sort of acheivement. refusing to allow someone to get in front of them, playing games on the road and showing an agression that has no place. it's stupid. and people, innocent people, get hurt because someone just has to be a dick and prove how fast they can go on the road.
We have an old friend who lives in town and he has a granddaughter who is 11 or 12 now, but we've known them since she was about 9, and as long as I've known her, he's allowed her out and about all times of the night when she visits. I remember many an insomniac night when she'd be up and out in the yard right along with us at 2 AM or later. She never strayed too far from all us or her grandpa, but she still would cross the street back and forth because Johnny (her g-pa) owns both his house and a house across the street that he turned into a shop, where we all hang out. That street has pretty poor lighting, and teenagers drive like crazy maniacs up and down it, but goddamn, the girl was taught to ALWAYS look both ways, no matter what. She's still with us today and has never been hit by a car. 10 is definitely not too young to friggin' look both ways before you cross a street. I just don't fucking understand how anyone could get hit by a car, they're pretty easy to see/hear coming. It's sad but all the different factors that probably really did lead up to her death are something that only knocking the stupid out of people will prevent. And you can't knock the stupid out of everyone, so people are always going to get hurt because of assholes who think they own the road and victims who weren't paying attention themselves.
To limit the number of stops and to save gas, in my neighborhood they assigned about 20 kids to a bus stop on convenient busy intersections. The kids sometimes actually play ballgames right in the intersection and in the street during rush hour before and after the bus comes. Eventually someone will get hit and the city will be broke from the lawsuit. .
For some reason we Americans have gotten pretty bad about overreacting to random isolated incidents (assuming this is the first time that this has happened in this area). Everyone's looking for someone/something to blame, when the truth of the matter is sometimes reality just fucking sucks. Er, whatever... :troll:
My parents are good parents, and allways kept an eye on me. But that didn't mean that I couldn't manage to find my way out of the house when I was ten years old and steal 40 oz's from the party next door. Kids can be sneaky....and stupid. It amuses me when someone here's about a tragedy on the news or something like that, and instantly sees whos at fault and knows what should have been done to prevent it. Hind sight is 20/20 they say.
They have been trying to put the blame on someone/something else. They tried nabbing the guy for a DUI, but he generally didn't see her-even with the street lights. They tried saying it's the slope of the road-which isn't very much of a slope. They tried saying it was the speed limit-which is 25 through there. I'm tired of hearing of this-it's no one or nothings fault-it's just an accident that happened. It happens sometimes. No one knows why, but we all know there is a reason she is gone now.
Yea its's kind of like when a friend of mine died a couple months ago in a car crash. Everyone kept talking about the crash.....no one knew what exactly happened at first so everyone kept going over what might have happened, what he could have done instead, what other people could have done to change the timing of it all, etc. None of it matters. What matters is that it happened, it's over now and there isn't a damn thing anyone could do to change that. Mourn the loss, pay your respects and remember the legacy of the person that has passed. It doesn't do any good to pick at the details in this kind of situation.
i got hit by a police car once. he acted like it was my fault. stupid pig should have looked directly in front of him before he took off from a dead stop to hit me.
