http://www.news-record.com/news/local/gso/baby15g.htm
I’m sorry the kid got hit, but what the hell was a 12-month old black (saw pic on news) baby wearing all black clothes doing standing in the middle of a busy road after dark?
Note that ALL the blame is being put on the driver of the vehicle, who may very well have not even realized he hit the kid.
How about some personal responsibility here on the part of the kid’s parents?
Pitiful. What’s a kid that age doing up that late anyway?
Apparently hanging out with an 11-year old who was buying him candy!
I’m sure the driver probably thought he hit a dog or something. Not that he shouldn’t have turned around for that but I don’t know what kind of area that is. A 1-year old child is not very big–I’ve seen people hit dogs bigger than that.
Sorry, I can’t get upset about a toddler being up at 9 p.m. Mine certainly was up that late sometimes when he was that age; I worked afternoons so we both slept late.
I can, however, get upset about someone hitting something – even if they thought it was “just” an animal – and not stopping to see what they hit. Shit happens, folks – we’ve all seen the stories about toddlers wandering out of the house though the doggie door and getting halfway down the road in the middle of the night. If I were to hit something bigger than a bug while driving, I would stop and look, and I would hope other people will do the same.
It’s a very dangerous, crime-ridden area.
I overheard some of my cow orkers predicting that if the driver is caught and is white, we’ll soon shortly have riots and Jesse Jackson-style marches. Sigh…
…don’t forget the REVEREND Al Sharpton…
You do know that not every parent works 9-5, right? It’s not until a kid is in school that it starts mattering what time she wakes up or goes to bed. I’ve known many a child who’s kept swingshift or graveyard shift hours to keep up with their parent’s schedules. This is a situation you know nothing about and have no right to make judgemental speculations about.
I have no problem with the time the kid was up - heck, when I have kids and I’m home with them, I’d be perfectly happy if they conformed to my schedule of ‘to bed at 1 AM, up at 10 or 11 AM’ when I’m not working. What I see an issue with is WHY this child was in the middle of the road - ALONE. At 1 year old. HOW? WHY? Why were his parents not watching him better??
The SUV driver is most certainly at fault here - we don’t know the whole story, but they should have stopped. But if you ask me, those parents also need to be charged with negligence. There is absolutely no reason for a child that young to be in the middle of a road in the dark alone (and it IS dark at 9 PM in Greensboro).
Ava