Seattle driver whose unoccupied SUV killed 12-year-old girl will not be charged

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They confirmed there were no open recalls on the 2018 GMC Acadia involved in the incident.
Despite what they describe as "extensive efforts," detectives and prosecutors from King County and Seattle were unable to identify any applicable criminal charges.
Fucking despicable. How bout manslaughter? If it isn't a car issue then it's negligence. Not putting on parking brake while leaving the car that get someone killed deserved a manslaughter charge.
This is your reminder that the 'park' state of a transmission is just a small pawl that is pushed into one of the gears. On uneven surfaces and/or with sufficient force the pawl can simply slip off the gear (or just break) and allow the vehicle to roll.
With electronic parking brakes on modern cars, i wonder if they can't be applied automagically after a few seconds of the vehicle being in park.
This is not an issue manual transmissions have, btw.
- On some newer car the "park" state of your car will automatically engage parking brake. On others the parking brake will automatically engaged while the car is turned off.
  All these bell and whistle is invented because blood are spilled. Kinda mean that people just cannot be trusted to be responsible.
- I have a car (Toyota SUV) that does the automatic parking brake thing. There's also a button to manually brake/unbrake them but I've not yet found a reason to use it.
If you see a kid or 3 you dont like. 2018 gmc acadia.
- Of you want to kill someone, just use a car and say it was an accident. All will be forgiven as long as you weren't road raging or drinking beforehand.
  
  This society is sick with cars making all the laws..
what kind of shitty news coverage doesn't even have images of the 75yard hill the vehicle rolled down?
The litany of "tragic accident" in the comments on the article remind me just how far we have to go in the crash vs accident battle.
The number of drivers that call the parking brake the “emergency brake” is appalling. My mother was one, and I hear it on a fairly regular basis. Bad driver training.
- They also teach you to turn your wheels into the curb when parking on a hill. This was entirely negligence on the part of the driver.

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