The grieving parents of a 7-year-old child who died hours after being hit by a car were charged with involuntary manslaughter after allowing him and his brother, 10, to walk home unaccompanied by an adult from a nearby grocery store.

    • @Aragaren@lemmy.world
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      01 month ago

      Did you read the article? The kid ran out into the street. The driver wasn’t speeding or impaired. They did nothing wrong so what exactly do you want them to be blamed for and why are they the asshole in this situation?

      • @outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 month ago

        Driving a killing machine. You don’t point a gun at anything you don’t want to kill. You dont drive a car without willingness to kill.

        Streets should not be a place its just okay to murder children.

        I would argue, and i know this is kind of radical and lots of you will disagree, that we should not have places where its okay to murder children.

          • @outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            01 month ago

            Youre right. Im sorry i said that.

            We absolutely need a place where its okay to kill children, and streets are far and away the best option for that.

            I get a little stupid and udealistic sometimes when im high, but I’ve sobered up now.

        • @dellish@lemmy.world
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          01 month ago

          You don’t drive a car without willingness to kill

          It has been a while since I’ve come across a statement that leaves me wondering how anyone came to such a disconnect with reality. Watching these mental gymnastics is making me sea sick.

          I drive a car with a willingness to get from where I am to where I’m going, quickly. A comparison to a gun is just retarded: guns are killing machines because that is their sole purpose. The purpose of cars is fast transport of people and cargo.

          Now, “murder” needs to show intent, and it sounds like you’re concluding anyone who is killed by a car is murdered because drivers must intend on killing someone simply because they got behind the wheel. I’m going to go ahead and assume you either a) don’t have any friends or family who drive, or, more likely, b) don’t have any friends and don’t talk to your family.

  • @5too@lemmy.world
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    01 month ago

    there is no evidence of speeding or wrongdoing on the part of the driver, therefore no charges have been filed.

    He hit a pedestrian. If you cannot react to a pedestrian entering the road unexpectedly, especially at a crosswalk, you are, by definition, driving recklessly.

    • @samus12345@sh.itjust.works
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      01 month ago

      The article says they attempted to cross between the crosswalks. A witness said the younger child jumped into the street. There’s only so much reaction even the most alert driver can do.

          • @Don_alForno@feddit.org
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            01 month ago

            In civilized countries it’s perfectly normal and safe to let your children walk to the fucking supermarket and back on their own. How indoctrinated with dystopian habits do you have to be to not realize there’s something deeply wrong here?

            When you’re operating heavy machinery (like a car) it’s your job to ensure you’re not a danger to your surroundings. If you can’t do that you’re not fit to drive.

            • @GoodOleAmerika@lemmy.world
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              01 month ago

              Physics says it does not care of civilized countries. U can’t stop a truck like tundra on a dime. Physics. And even with auto braking these day, no way.

              • @merc@sh.itjust.works
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                130 days ago

                like tundra on a dime

                Um, wut?

                Physics says it does not care of civilized countries

                Civilized countries don’t have trucks going through areas where people live. In North America there are far too many “stroads”.

      • @GoodOleAmerika@lemmy.world
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        01 month ago

        Yep. U got this right. People here are just dumb. Kid jumps in from of the car that is going 45mph. Parents should be holding hand and not letting kids just do what the kids want to do.

  • Dammam No. 7
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    01 month ago

    They got it backwards. I will hold the road planners, the city government, the driving license issuer, and the driver responsible. It start with poorly designed roads and ends with poor driver training. The parents are the victims here.

  • @justgohomealready@sh.itjust.works
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    21 month ago

    At seven I went to school and back home on foot and alone, about a mile, everyday. I did once have a close call with a car that didn’t stop for a crosswalk.

    Are parents supposed to accompany their kids at all time until they are 18?

    • @RBWells@lemmy.world
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      01 month ago

      Yeah 2 miles here. It’s still the rule, school bus service available if you are more than 2 miles away from school OR would have to cross a dangerous road.

      And no, obviously we are supposed to be precognitive and able to tell if something will happen.

      That said - I would let my kids walk to the shop themselves only if there was no big road to cross. Drivers here will run kids right over. Everyone knows someone with a family member killed by a car.

    • Maestro
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      21 month ago

      According to 'murica, until 16. Then they can drive their own car.

  • @topherclay@lemmy.world
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    41 month ago

    They gotta blame the people who designed the city. If these kids were a small fraction of the same age and in Japan they would be on TV for braving their first solo trip into the market to buy a vegetable for dinner. It would be a cute TV show called “Old Enough” on Netflix with English subtitles instead of a cruel reality on this side of the same planet where a kid is now dead.

    That part of it isn’t the fault of the parents, but the fault of the society we have created.

    Btw that TV show is a few decades old but my point is that the world is possible. We don’t need to be like Japan was in that TV show, but we do need more walkable cities.

    • @Jimbabwe@lemmy.world
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      01 month ago

      I came here to mention Old Enough. So sad that my American kid can never have this kind of experience because of how fucked our cities and society are.