the man who hit the family and never stopped, reportedly admitted drinking "a little" alcohol earlier in the day. He also admitted to being on painkillers and being partially blind in one eye

It's a miracle only one person died

Fuck that police department. That is 1000% the fault of a car centric society.

If you're so smart, maybe tell me where we should murder children, if not the street?

I wonder if the outcome would have been the same if it was a black driver and a white kid.

Here in Sweden, me and my sister walked alone to school every day since we started at seven years old, I remember the day before the first day at school, mom walked us to and from school to show us the way we should walk to be safe, this included crossing a commuter railroad and several intersections. When we were in year four, the school allowed students to bike to school.

Quite the difference in thinking about cars and safety....

I'm curious what the speed limit of the road was. It blows my mind how fast we let cars drive in residential areas. The fact that these kids can't walk 2 blocks safety between the grocery store and home-- or put another way, that if they don't use the crosswalk between home and the grocery store, there's a serious risk of death-- is such a failure of city planning and societal values.

Neither article mentions how far it would be had they used the crosswalk, but I'd guess, with a 4 lane road, for two kids it was really out of the way.

How heartbreaking. 7 years old. As a parent you can't say, "yeah, you can walk two blocks home,"? Land of the free, but no autonomy for people without a car.