To: Arthalion
"By allowing his daughter to drive without first ensuring that she new the rudiments of what she was doing, he put his life in danger, her life in danger, and the lives of everyone around him in danger. And that choice killed someone."
How do you know thats what he did? She could have known all the "rudiments" as you say and still had the accident. Some people are simply unsuited for driving.
Very old people often fall into this category but there are also people who are just very very bad drivers. They tend to panic at the slightest provocation, they have poor depth perception, and poor hand eye coordination. She sounds like one of these people.
He should have taught her to drive as a kid while sitting on his lap like my dad taught me. At least she would have been calmer and not as likely to panic like she did. Her panic was what killed the woman.
93 posted on
05/26/2005 11:31:38 AM PDT by
monday
To: monday
She could have known all the "rudiments" as you say and still had the accident. Some people are simply unsuited for driving.
As her parent, it's his responsibility to ensure that she doesn't drive until she IS suited. It's quite obvious that she didn't know how to turn or stop the vehicle, and he was negligent in giving her control of it. It was HIS JOB to ensure that she couldn't hurt anybody, and he not only failed to do that, he deliberately did so in a place where there were innocent people around.
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