Posted on 09/06/2024 11:19:21 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A 19-year-old is being charged with DUI manslaughter after allegedly running over a 2-year-old and dragging him and his tricycle in a gated Florida community Monday as his horrified family watched, authorities said.
According to harrowing details from the affidavit obtained by ClickOrlando, Joshua Montero “appeared to drag the child and the bicycle” a few feet before the truck came to a halt.
The tot’s mother said she and her husband were standing in their driveway as their children were riding their bikes in the street in front of their house on the Labor Day holiday when she heard and saw the speeding truck, ClickOrlando said of the affidavit.
She and her husband began to yell at the driver to slow down when the truck continued toward the cul-de-sac, according to the affidavit.
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> Cul-du-sac in a gated community. <
I think that’s it. Such locations have so little traffic that they are almost taken as playgrounds.
Until something like this happens.
I just hope the family gets some sort of justice. None of this deferred sentencing and alcohol counseling. 15 years sounds about right.
from wherever these headlines come from.
These kind of things would not happen if we just taught people how to drive drunk.
It is the fault of the parents who let their children ride bikes.
Everyone drives drunk, why are you so up tight about it?
Just some of the comments I have seen on threads about drunks who murder.
Might or might not see these comments on this thread because he is not a youngish female with a BIG bust.
I live in a gated community in Florida, that also has patrols.
1. If you live in the community you have a transponder on your car and do NOT have to stop at the gate.
2. Most of the community has sidewalks, but certain streets with higher value houses do NOT have sidewalks ... such as the street that I live on. This makes walking the dogs interesting at times. Last year a car of lookie loos was driving my street to look at Christmas lights as I was walking my dog. They were not paying attention to the road and though I was waving my hands furiously they were headed right at me. I literally had to jump into a yard and yank the dogs in after me. They finally realized how close they were to hitting me and were able to stop where I had just been standing.
Cul-du-sac in a gated community. Not a big open street,
Cul-du-sac in a gated community. Not a big open street to be speeding through.
Gated communities give a false sense of security. The only time our house has ever been robbed was in a gated community in SoCal.
And 20 mph limit sight were posted, but research obeyed. People are humans and a gate isn’t going to magically turn them into decent people.
I agree. I notice some people think a Cul de Sac is somehow safe for kids to play in the street. I live on one and no it’s not safe.
Did his dad buy him a bottle of jack Daniel’s for Christmas?
If you are in a gated community, how did “lookie-loos” gain entry?
I live on a court. Neither I nor my neighbors have small children, but we do have dogs which we grab when we see a vehicle coming, even if it’s chugging along slowly. We have no idea the what the state of the driver or the vehicle is, we know that it’s our responsibility to remove our dogs from potential disaster.
The parents should’ve been more “right there” than they were, as in walking along side their precious child and being ready to remove the little one from harm’s way. Obviously the drunk driver bears 99% of the blame. The parently will have to live with the 1% they could’ve prevented.
Article said it was a gated community—maybe there isn’t normally a lot of traffic or trash.
We used to say “cul-de-sac” was French for “play in the street”.
Touche’
Culdesac on dead end road.
“when the truck continued toward the cul-de-sac, according to the affidavit.”
That’s pretty much a dead end. Seems to me it would be pretty safe to let kids ride out in the street in that case.
There is insufficient information in this poorly researched article.
I have questions.
Tragic.
my parents always preached “you’re gonna get run over if you play on the street”... and we lived on a dead end street...
common sense is lacking in today’s parenting...
It is a cul-de-sac in a gated, meaning supposedly closed, community. A drunk 19 year-old is not even supposed to be anywhere near there. Not supposed to be. WE had the fools driving in behind someone and racing down every street and cul-de-sac cutting donuts there looking for a way out. Everyone of them was caught and hauled off and I nope never to be seen again.
Which is why you drive slowly in residential areas, right?
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