My older brother was hit by a car as as a six year old kid because he ran out into the road between parked cars at dusk, and a man hit him, severely injuring him with a compound fracture of his femur. My brother spent 6 months recovering, and fully recovered but bears a huge purple scar on the outside of his right leg from his hip to his knee, two inches across at the top tapering down to a point at his knee, with purple suture lines crossing it at regular intervals.
The man was doing under the speed limit, less than 25 MPH, and was guilt ridden. Everyone, including my parents tried to ease the conscience of the poor man, but he never got over it. My mom told me he became an alcoholic and later committed suicide.
Fact is, the guy wasn’t at fault. It was an accident, a kid got injured. My parents didn’t attack the guy like this POS did the off-duty police officer.
I read the quote by that poster, and realized that the person has an issue unrelated to reality.
I'm not certain whatever happened to the guy who hit the kid in my hometown, but I know at the time, he was inconsolable. This was before the internet. It was local news, the family didn't blame him, but he sure blamed himself.
An old friend of mine had a son who was instructed not to play in the street, it was a quiet residential neighbborhood but under the supervision of his older brothers (mother was in house) he zoomed out from between cars and was hit and killed.
The driver was not found to be at fault. ANd this was during the daytime.
I cannot believe the nonsense idiocy on this thread.