A 30-year-old woman in Marietta, Georgia was convicted of vehicular homicide this week – and she wasn’t even driving a car. The woman was crossing the street with her three children when a driver, who had been drinking, hit and killed her four-year-old.
WTF???
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Georgia says you may legally cross unless BOTH ends of that block have lights or stop signs.
http://tinyurl.com/5vsrqjy
Only in America…..!!!
So in Georgia anybody on the road but outside a crosswalk is fair game and can be killed by drivers with no charges if the driver doesn’t flee the scene. Blind respect for stupid laws is just stupid and no excuse for this upside down case. I have never had any reason to go to Georgia but now I have 2 good reasons NOT to go there, this dumb ass law and the stupid policy on aliens that is depriving Georgia farmers of workers to harvest their food. Because of stupidity in Georgia the whole country will enjoy higher food costs.
Thanks Georgia.
Someone should fix the typo’d headline. A macabre and inappropriate idea came to mind when I read that.
None of this makes any sense
what was the non-combatant driving
Reminds me here in Manitoba where we have a government auto insurance monopoly which over time the evil bureaucrats realized their powers of being affiliated with the police
One poor fellow was found 51 % at fault when his car was pulled out of garage by a tow truck to be taken to the dealership and damage was done to the bumper of the new car being towed
Only problem was that this driver was in intensive care as a patient at St Boniface hospital in Winnipeg
Jaywalking killed the child? Seriously?
Image a cruise ship with 2,000 passengers sinking and only 25 passengers surviving because there was only one life raft. Now imagine some troll saying the other 1,975 passengers died because they didn’t use a life raft.
The fact is in most suburban locations in the US pedestrians have no choice but to “jaywalk” because there are no marked crosswalks. Jaywalking laws were written for the convenience of drivers and not for pedestrian safety. It makes me gag hearing about smug entitled drivers who think they own the road and shouldn’t have to share it with others.