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.
Why a ruin a good life over some dead child bro...
American in a nut shell tbh
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.
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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