You know who should be charged over this? It's not the parents. It's not even the driver. And it's not even necessarily the city board responsible for the shitty car-centric design. It's the fucking psychopaths in charge of car & oil companies who lobbied this and forced car-centrism on an entire continent. They need to be on the dock for every preventable pedestrian & cyclist death in city limits. All of them are mass murderers.
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Sadly, though this is totally insane, it is by far, not the most insane happening in the US, right now...
meanwhile, in Japan, they ran a TV show of toddlers running errands
I loved that show! Reminded me of running errands when I was little. A turnip "the size of your head", and 20 Rothmans.
Get that socialism out of here /s
Its too bad that Americans refuse to use their 2A rights to enforce normalcy and crush the crony capitalist conservatism that causes these problems
They might have a second kid.
the traffic light was a third of a mile away.
I'm having trouble visualizing this. Does this mean that at a walking speed of 3km/h it would take ten entire minutes to get to a cross walk? Because that's insane.
In Sweden we have crosswalks very regularly, usually like a couple minutes of walking at most. For bus stops farther between intersections there are markers indicating that people will cross, even without a normal crossing marker. For areas which can't have a crossing (you may need to walk around a ways to get under or over four lanes) they put up barriers to prevent walking across.
When Americans complain about everything being car-centric, this is exactly the kind of shit they’re complaining about.
My grocery store is a mile away, but I can’t legally walk there. There are no crosswalks to get to the store. If I’m going to fully obey the law as written, I must use a car just to go to the store.
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after allowing him and his brother, 10, to walk home unaccompanied by an adult from a nearby grocery store.
Wtf, are kids 10 and 7 not old enough to walk by themselves to the grocery store now?
I live a few miles from where this occurred. The sidewalk is right on the road (only on one side) it's 4 lanes with no crossing other than the light at the grocery store. You cross at the light, you have no sidewalk, you don't cross at the light you have to cross without a crosswalk. It's 4 lanes split by a row of trees, very low visibility, and every one speeds over the 45 mph posted speed limit. I wouldn't let my 13 cross that road and walk down it, much less at 6pm, one of the busiest times.
For context, this is where it occurred: https://maps.app.goo.gl/9GjCYGBAm5BBm8k59
Such a speed limit on a road through a residential neighborhood in insane :O
Meanwhile all the boomers talk about how they have such find memories of walking around unsupervised until the streetlights came on or whatever lame Facebook nostalgia meme they're parroting
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The thing is, once car-centrism is established and normalized, it's so hard to explain to people what the real problem is. Clearly the kid did a stupid thing and ran into the road when it shouldn't. Clearly the driver had no bad intentions.
But somehow the thought never occurs to people that kids (and adults) will always be stupid and we shouldn't strive to make a world where nobody makes mistakes. We should strive to make a world where making mistakes doesn't kill you.
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