# My daughter was just killed by a speeding driver **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 23, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-was-just-killed-by-a-speeding-driver/1004689 "2024-07-23T15:51:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-was-just-killed-by-a-speeding-driver/1004689/61 "2024-07-23T20:36:15Z")
I am heartbroken for you, my friend. What a horrible tragedy. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-was-just-killed-by-a-speeding-driver/1004689/62 "2024-07-23T20:46:26Z")
I’m so sorry to hear this. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-was-just-killed-by-a-speeding-driver/1004689/63 "2024-07-23T20:49:24Z")
Oh no. I can’t imagine the grief and shock you must be feeling right now. I am so sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-was-just-killed-by-a-speeding-driver/1004689/64 "2024-07-23T20:49:30Z")
Sorry for your loss Joanna. Something I’ll occasional say is , “Don’t use your car to express your emotional state.” (If you’re feeling like a broken hero on a last chance power drive, slow da fuck down.) ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-was-just-killed-by-a-speeding-driver/1004689/65 "2024-07-23T21:47:48Z")
I’m so, so sorry. 😢 ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-was-just-killed-by-a-speeding-driver/1004689/66 "2024-07-23T21:58:33Z")
All my support and best wishes, a truly terrible day for all in your family. And I agree 100% about speeding, most people treat it as just “one of those things you do”, when in my experience (former adjuster) it always makes everything _worse_ from a driving point of view. A recoverable moment of inattention becomes UN-recoverable because you couldn’t take your damn foot off the gas. I agree, slow the heck down! ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-was-just-killed-by-a-speeding-driver/1004689/67 "2024-07-23T22:00:36Z")
This is so inadequate, but I’m so sorry this devastating thing happened to you. May you find the strength to persevere. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-was-just-killed-by-a-speeding-driver/1004689/68 "2024-07-23T22:00:42Z")
I’m so very sorry, Johanna. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-was-just-killed-by-a-speeding-driver/1004689/69 "2024-07-23T22:02:52Z")
Another voice in the chorus of condolences… I will join you and continue in my crusade to get people to slow the hell down as well. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-was-just-killed-by-a-speeding-driver/1004689/70 "2024-07-23T22:05:44Z")
I’m so very sorry, and send sympathy to you and your family with tears in my eyes. As others have said, I’ll remember your sweet daughter the next time I’m tempted to speed. Here’s a link to an organization that helped friends when their son died: [To The Newly Bereaved - Compassionate Friends](https://www.compassionatefriends.org/find-support/to-the-newly-bereaved/) When you can, please update and let us know how you and your grandkids are doing. How old are they? ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-was-just-killed-by-a-speeding-driver/1004689/71 "2024-07-23T22:27:55Z")
I am so sorry that I can’t even begin to express it. Thank you for letting us know. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-was-just-killed-by-a-speeding-driver/1004689/72 "2024-07-23T22:59:58Z")
I am sorry for your loss. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-was-just-killed-by-a-speeding-driver/1004689/73 "2024-07-23T23:00:03Z")
What an unspeakably horrible tragedy! I feel so bad for you, and wish you strength and peace in the difficult days ahead. Thinking of others in your message to all of us to slow down was very thoughtful and noble at such a terrible time. I may or may not have complained here at some point that our city was putting up fixed photo-radar cameras in my neighbourhood, but now I applaud it. There really are too many speeders rushing through these residential streets, including in school zones, and I dearly hope they all get nailed with huge fines. Again, my deepest condolences on your terrible loss. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-was-just-killed-by-a-speeding-driver/1004689/74 "2024-07-23T23:00:07Z")
Words just can’t express. My sympathies to you and all her loved ones. StG ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2024, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-was-just-killed-by-a-speeding-driver/1004689/75 "2024-07-24T09:20:40Z")
I am so sorry to hear this. Sympathies to you and your family. The Kansas Highway Patrol just announced that, thus far this year, they have issued over 1500 citations for speeders going over 100 mph. And we are certainly not a high-traffic state, although there are wide-open stretches of interstate highways. > **[KHP troopers have issued over 1.5K speeding citations for drivers going 100+ MPH](https://www.yahoo.com/news/khp-troopers-issued-over-1-011207971.html)** > > Kansas Highway Patrol troopers have issued more than 1,500 citations for speeds greater than 100 MPH. One of these was for 151 mph. I’d be scared shitless to be in that car. > **[151 mph driver on I-70 caught in Saline County](https://www.yahoo.com/news/151-mph-driver-70-caught-162200032.html)** > > A driver will have to pay more than $1,000 after a trooper allegedly saw him going 151 in a 75 mph zone Thursday morning. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2024, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-was-just-killed-by-a-speeding-driver/1004689/76 "2024-07-24T09:47:00Z")
I am so sorry for your loss. I can relate, my father was killed by an inattentive driver who struck him on his motorcycle. Was your daughter married or did she have kids? I will say a prayer for your family and their sorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Nyvaak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Nyvaak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nyvaak)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2024, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-was-just-killed-by-a-speeding-driver/1004689/77 "2024-07-24T09:58:42Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > Now when we say “I love you” to each other, her spirit lives on in us. The one ray of light in an unimaginably bleak situation. I’m so very sorry, Johanna. There just aren’t words for how wrong the whole situation is. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2024, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-was-just-killed-by-a-speeding-driver/1004689/78 "2024-07-24T10:07:11Z")
Very sorry for your loss. If it’s okay, I’ll keep your family in my prayers. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2024, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-was-just-killed-by-a-speeding-driver/1004689/79 "2024-07-24T10:40:10Z")
I am so sorry for your loss ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2024, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-was-just-killed-by-a-speeding-driver/1004689/80 "2024-07-24T10:50:18Z")
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