Parents are charged after their son, 7, is struck dead in a car accident
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Gastonia, N.C., police charged the parents with involuntary manslaughter charges after allowing the victim and his brother to walk home alone from a nearby grocery store.
  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    Incorrect.

    Being old enough to walk home alone is not equivalent to being old enough to escort a younger sibling on top of that.

    Cite a source, please.

    I would say 12~13 bare minimum to simultaneously watch over a 7 year old, alone, while also being in a higher danger area (like a 4 lane busy road)

    What do you base that on?

    But for clarity, this was two lanes, a large grass island, and another two lanes with cars going in one direction. They would have only been crossing two lanes, as do other pedestrians in that area. And a motorist seeing two kids about to cross should be able to assess the situation and slow down.

    But the point is being missed: kids are being killed by drivers in “safe zones” like school areas, adults killed waiting inside bus shelters, adult pedestrians killed with the right of way at intersections, etc.

    The problem are the cars, not the age of the kids.

    We can’t keep prioritizing cars, leaving no room for pedestrians and kids to move freely, then blame the victims.

    Even in areas where adults are walking their kids through a crosswalk, cars are killing them all.

    Age doesn’t matter if the problem affects everyone from 7 to 70 year olds.

    God, I really hope you don’t have kids if you seriously think it’s cool to let a unsupervised 10 year old watch a 7 year old near a busy road, that’s exceptionally negligent, lol

    LOL. My kids are in their twenties, and when they were that age, it was completely normal for their friends to walk over to our place, or for them to walk to their friend’s place. Or them going to the park with their younger siblings or to play outside.

    I have two elementary schools nearby, and it’s totally normal to see young kids walking to school on their own.

    And when I was a kid, this was also normal.

    And all over the world, this is normal.

    What’s not normal is the shift of responsibility from drivers to victims. And this is coming far too common, and needs to be called out at every chance.

    • pixxelkick@lemmy.world
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      52 minutes ago

      What’s not normal is the shift of responsibility from drivers to victims.

      Imagine unironically thinking that if a person jumps out on a busy road in front of a moving car and gets hit, somehow thats the driver’s fault.

      How many layers deep inside your echo chamber are you?

      We can’t keep prioritizing cars, leaving no room for pedestrians and kids to move freely, then blame the victims.

      The answer to this is not to let your seven year old child go wander out into traffic on a road, thats an insane kind of response.

      You don’t get to go “Well because we don’t have enough crosswalks, better just let kids kill themselves, cuz they outta just be allowed to”

      That’s an absolutely insane kind of response to the issue.

      Cars sucking does not excuse the mother’s behavior here. Stroads being dangerous literally means her behavior was negligent. A lack of crosswalks or safer alternatives does not excuse her behavior.

      You’re logic is on par with going “Well this mom let her seven year old wander around on a pier on a lake unsupervised. Her kid fell in the water and drowned. But really the city shouldn’t have made the lake that deep so really the mom isn’t at fault here. Kids should be able to safely wander around unsupervised on piers on lakes without worrying about drowning. In a perfect world every pier is built in a way that makes it impossible for kids to fall off them and drown. So yeah, the mom did nothing wrong”

      Do you see how insane that sounds? No mate, that’s not how the real world works.