Parents are charged after their son, 7, is struck dead by a driver
Parents are charged after their son, 7, is struck dead by a driver
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.
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.
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NC is a hellscape of stroads and highways. Walking anywhere there is a stressful situation. I'd walk down to the local park and needed to cross 2 lanes of traffic at a crosswalk. The speed limit was 35 yet people flew through doing 50 and this is with medians and a crosswalk. The only way to cross was to begin walking out and hopefully they brake for you.
That's never the way to cross a street. You look ahead for a gap, then start moving the moment the car in front of the gap passes you. If you've gotta run, run, but what you've described is nothing short of suicide. Never trust drivers.