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.

  • stopgermanizerz@endlesstalk.org
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    9 days ago

    Highway are especially designed so that people can speed omg. It’s what controlled-access mean. Don’t play dumb

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      8 days ago

      No, that’s my point. Highways are designed for speed. Stroads are designed badly. The stroad is to blame, not the driver using the stroad in the way that the stroad engineers intended. Blaming the individual driver is just the liberal version of carbrainedness.

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      8 days ago

      “Highway” does not mean controlled access; you’re thinking of “freeway” or “Interstate.”