Peugeot 206 (2009–2012)
The parents are better people than I know I am.
Posted on 08/05/2021 3:07:35 AM PDT by RandFan
The parents of a student killed in a car crash have shared how they forgave the man behind the wheel, taking him into their home and calling him son.
Elizabeth and Fernando Jimenez were devastated after their daughter Maria was killed in a car crash in March 2017 but felt obligated to help Nick Tay, the friend who had been driving, as he faced prosecution.
Despite being 'consumed with grief', Elizabeth couldn't help but feel for 25-year-old Nick, whose family lived in Singapore, leaving him facing the aftermath of his actions on his own.
The couple decided they would forgive him and the three of them would go on to form a remarkably close bond with each other as Nick faced prosecution, was sent to prison and then deported after serving his sentence.
In March 2017, Maria Jimenez had planned to go Korea to teach after finishing her linguistics degree at Brighton University.
But just days before her 24th birthday, she was killed in a crash after friend Nick Tay flipped the car while travelling at 110mph.
The pair had been for dinner with their church music group and Maria had asked Nick to drive her home because she had been drinking.
Nick, 25, was speeding down a dual-carriageway in south west London at more than double the limit when he veered across two lanes, hit the central reservation and flew off towards a verge.
Maria was not wearing a seatbelt and was thrown from the Peugeot 206 when Tay, who escaped with minor injuries, crashed in the early hours of March 22.
The crash, which happened on the A3 near Tolworth, cost Maria her life in what police would later call 'an incident that was entirely preventable'.
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Got drunk with a church music group ? Times are a changing…
Maybe or maybe not, it depends. On another note glad they made peace and found a way to move on and forgive, not our place to judge the person as a whole.
Everyone reacts to shock and grief in their own way. I would not be so forgiving. Any couple who would do that, I would judge them to still be in a state of shock. I would speculate these two are blocking how they really feel about the event, so they overcompensate trying to convince themselves that they are “doing what’s right”.
The young motorist better sleep with one eye open, because eventually the parents Mask of Righteousness is likely to fall off, revealing the volcano of their unresolved rage.
He is a fool to move in with them.
While it is not our place to judge the person as a whole, it is our place to obey laws that are in place to protect lives. Accidents often don’t “just happen”.
The parents are better people than I know I am.
“Nick, 25, was speeding down a dual-carriageway in south west London at more than double the limit when he veered across two lanes, hit the central reservation and flew off towards a verge. “
hmmm...
“the three of them would go on to form a remarkably close bond with each other as Nick faced prosecution, was sent to prison and then deported after serving his sentence. “
My sister was out with her boyfriend. They were at a bar and his friends were ragging on him for not drinking, enough that he got upset and left. My sister didn't think he was coming back and she was going to ride home with someone else but he was waiting outside when they walked out of the bar, so she got in the car with him. It was one of those Datsun 280-Zs with the T-top. It was raining and he was still upset and driving too fast for the conditions. She kept asking him to slow down but he ignored her. He lost control on a curve and flipped the car, popping the glass out of the T-top with the force of the impact. My sister got thrown out and landed in grass, so badly injured they gave her last rites. Her boyfriend landed on pavement, slid across the street and went face first into the curb, killing him.
A couple of her friends and myself told her while she was convalescing that if it had been the opposite I would have finished the job myself. Each time she heard that she got very upset, claiming that he loved her and never meant to hurt her. So I guess the parents of the girl killed in this accident were of the same frame of mind.
No. You lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas. A young Chinese couple in town started a restaurant, and were readily accepted by the local community. They made the mistake of hiring two illegals to work in the restaurant, and allowed them to stay in a spare bedroom. The illegals repaid this act of kindness by raping and killing their 4-year-old son. It was one of four murders that happened in my town in 35 years. Oh yeah, they got caught.
That’s good. At least he’s not living with them. But oftentimes being deported has no meaning if the illegal aliens choses to come back in anyway and take another gamble. Even more now under Biden’s open border policy.
S.S.S.
Older FReepers will know what that is.
He was sent to prison and deported. He’s gone.
No. Homicide is not a forgivable act.
They better not let him drive them to the train station.
“Even more now under Biden’s open border policy.”
This happened in England
"Forgiveness" is not all-inclusive; that is, you cannot forgive someone (assuming they've even asked for your forgiveness, admitted fault and will atone/"pay the price") for what they do to someone else. But in today's irrational and ignorant world, it seems anything goes including making up new meanings for words as we go along, you know, because we're more "enlightened", more "evolved" than anyone who existed before the day we were born. Cheers!
There’s forgiving and then there’s letting him move in. 😣
Apparently you didn’t read the whole article, you really should read it!
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