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Well, the boys were riding bikes without lights the wrong way down a road, and ran head-on into her car. I could see a woman being traumatized by having killed a person, even if it wasn’t her fault.

And then they sued her for it. Was it her fault? The facts we have in evidence don’t suggest so, bikes with no lights in dark clothing driving toward you at 1am is not what you normally expect to see.

(now, I’m an advocate of people driving slower when they need to because you should be able to stop if there is an obstacle in the road, but not a moving vehicle without lights heading toward you in your lane).

I do think it seems cruel, but I don’t think it is illogical that the woman WOULD have long-term mental problems from an accident like this, and if it wasn’t her fault, she may need to sue to get her own liability coverage to cover the treatment. And of course, she might be upset that she is suffering because of their actions, and they are suing her.

I am somewhat confused, as this article and another suggested the boys were riding toward the car when they were hit, but I found another article which says they were riding away from her when she hit them:

They were returning to their homes about 1:30 a.m. on Oct. 28, 2012, riding abreast along the two-lane paved rural road, when they were hit from behind by Ms. Simon’s black SUV.

If they were hit from behind, they probably were not on the wrong side of the road, as the other articles suggested.

So I apologize for assuming as fact what apparently is just speculation on the part of the news organizations.