Posted on 05/25/2005 3:23:39 AM PDT by rdb3
8 injured as car smashes day care
Bystanders rush to scene, lift vehicle off screaming children
12:25 AM CDT on Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Richard Howell thought all the children were dead.
A car had careened into a huge plate-glass window under the rainbow-colored sign of the Dream House Learning Center, transforming a play area for 60 children into a chaotic mess of broken glass and overturned tables Tuesday afternoon.
The barbershop owner and his brother, Pierre Caldwell, rushed in to help.
One young girl, pinned under the car, screamed, "Please don't let me die! Please take the car off my leg!" Another girl under the car whimpered from her injuries.
The car's engine was still running, with hip-hop music blaring from the radio.
"The only thing I could think is, 'We've got to pick this car up,' " Mr. Howell said.
About five people – including Mr. Howell, his brother and a man who had just arrived from a plasma donation center
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
"... three teenage girls got out of the car after the crash and two of them ran from the scene. Investigators think a 14-year-old was driving the car, ..."
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3196657
Speechless.
Excerpting in the middle of a sentence. That's a new one.
Big whoop. Registration info is posted. Want to read more, use it.
That is our society today. No sense of empathy from young people who have been left to the TV's and daycare providers.
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