advocacy or just unreal...
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I just saw a news story about a 10 year old who was killed in a crosswalk by a semi-truck...
A ten-year-old child was killed on Wednesday, April 24th, after being struck by a semi-truck while riding a bicycle home from Wetherbee Elementary School in Orlando. At the time of this writing, the truck and the driver involved have not been located or identified.
The reports from the Florida Highway Patrol indicate that it was during the afternoon that the incident took place. The child had just gotten out of school, and the area was filled with parents picking their children up and taking them home. The ten-year-old involved was riding their bike away from the school and had reached the intersection of Wetherbee Road and Landstar Boulevard. This intersection lies not even one half mile from Wetherbee Elementary. This intersection features a crosswalk, and the child in question was using this crosswalk to get from one side of the road to the other.
The news station however took this to an insane conclusion... and then went on to mention BICYCLE HELMET LAWS for youth... as if a helmet would have done a thing for someone being struck by a big damn TRUCK.
https://www.wftv.com/video?videoId=9...deoVersion=1.0
Of course they found a Doc who said... "Well it was a head injury... so maybe, if he had been wearing a helmet..."
Nice Doc. Blame the victim.
Hey, maybe if the damn truck didn't hit him... he would DEFINITELY be alive.
A ten-year-old child was killed on Wednesday, April 24th, after being struck by a semi-truck while riding a bicycle home from Wetherbee Elementary School in Orlando. At the time of this writing, the truck and the driver involved have not been located or identified.
The reports from the Florida Highway Patrol indicate that it was during the afternoon that the incident took place. The child had just gotten out of school, and the area was filled with parents picking their children up and taking them home. The ten-year-old involved was riding their bike away from the school and had reached the intersection of Wetherbee Road and Landstar Boulevard. This intersection lies not even one half mile from Wetherbee Elementary. This intersection features a crosswalk, and the child in question was using this crosswalk to get from one side of the road to the other.
https://www.wftv.com/video?videoId=9...deoVersion=1.0
Of course they found a Doc who said... "Well it was a head injury... so maybe, if he had been wearing a helmet..."
Nice Doc. Blame the victim.
Hey, maybe if the damn truck didn't hit him... he would DEFINITELY be alive.