On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Stuart Jansen<[email protected]> wrote: > Children leave crap everywhere, that doesn't mean I should have to do a > complete sweep of my driveway, the neighbor's back yard, and the local > park before I back up my car. Looking behind my car should be enough.
No, it doesn't. However, looking behind your car and up and down the sidewalk in both directions to see whether there are children in your driveway (or children who are walking in the direction of your driveway) before you get into your vehicle to back out seems reasonable to me. I do it myself before I back up - it doesn't take very long. Of course I am also more careful than most people about almost everything driving-related. > Your suggestion is just as offensive as mine. A child has died > tragically. The police looked into it. They decided that showing mercy > was appropriate. Lets not assume we know more than the people actually > involved. I assume nothing more than what was in the news - a source that I freely admit is seldom accurate and never precise. But given what we've been told - the child was laying in the driveway and was killed by a vehicle backing up - may we not assume that a more careful investigation of the driveway would have prevented this tragedy? Again, I am not advocating criminal charges. But wouldn't it be better to call this what it is - negligence - and not use the word "accident", which implies that no-one is at fault and that it couldn't have been prevented? -Dan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
