[Miss Marple]

The paper this morning says the husband is in critical condition with head injuries. The wife is in serious condition.

The driver of the car was found last night....a teen age girl who told her mother she "thought she had hit something." The mother called police.

"Thought" she had hit something? A large sign and two people! Heavens!

[Neets]

Saw the news of your encounter last night.

Praying for everyone concerned. How frightful.

[Guenevere]

#16..That 'teenage girl' was either drunk or stoned!

I know when I hit a small pothole in the road....
incredible!

[lysie]

The car swerved to the left, dropped into a 6-foot drainage ditch, then came out of the ditch and up on the lawn south of the church. It ran another 50 yards across the wet grass and struck the Fraleys. The car then rolled onto the paved drive leading to the church and kept going east on 16th Street.

From the online paper.

Curious, what is the speed limit in that area?

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

The driver of the car was found last night....a teen age girl who told her mother she "thought she had hit something."

Prayers for you, and for all who were involved.

"Thought she had hit something" is amazing. I'm already on my girl child (whom I've sometimes addressed as "She who wants to be driving in a couple of years) on rule 1 of driving: "NEVER hit a human. If there's going to be an accident, God forbid, hit anything else (though I would also perfer, within reason, that you avoid the rest of God's creatures too), but NEVER hit a human."

She had more than a little angst, but understood her role in all of this, and thus her responsibility, when we had an exchange of questions on "Rule 1" surrounding how far that would go. She wanted to know if there were "exceptions" for "NEVER" - I said, simply, "no; never is absolute." On more elaboration--which included a legal lesson tailored for a 14-year-old that pointed out the courts will not care whehter it was an "accident," if human injury was involved--she also came to understand that means it's her responsibility to give up all to protect the pedestrian.

The girl involved in this accident obviously didn't have that sense of responsibility or learn that lesson.

Now she had better pray, and hope the prayers of others are answered; if the husband with critical injuries doesn't survive, then she will have a legal nightmare--death occurring as the result of felonious activity, to wit: hit and run.

To me, it's obvious the girl is scared, possibly of her parents reaction, what with her variation on "it's only a scratch" view of the whole affair.

She should be scared of the legal system. Her nightmare has only just begun.

[lepton]

The paper this morning says the husband is in critical condition with head injuries. The wife is in serious condition.

The driver of the car was found last night....a teen age girl who told her mother she "thought she had hit something." The mother called police.

"Thought" she had hit something? A large sign and two people! Heavens!
16 posted on 12/11/2003 4:52:35 AM PST by Miss Marple

Driving with teenagers in the town is more dangerous than being a soldier in Iraq.