Good morning Everyone.
I know this is going to start a blood bath ....
I am sorry Auntie but I totally disagree...On the next day,the average person/family is hurting and in pain at thier loss,not thinking positioning themselves for a suit and looking for a atty and giving tv interviews announcing they hired a atty..........family member or not!
I know this will sound hard and it is hard........but........I think the family is lucky they were not under arrest for child abuse/negleck...............they let a young child who they addmitted was a inexprienced rider go off on a unsafe/unsable bike (with the flat tire), unwatched, near a busy campground main road!!
I honesty, cannot understand the pain they must feel, but if it was me,I would be blaming myself!
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Again, this is being put flat out and hard..but those are the facts....
AKK
With all due respect..those are "facts" as you see them. Again, we all bring our own persepective to things.
A couple of things. One,... I've put a child in the ground. I know what that's like.
Two..
The idea that this family would have a lawyer after such a tragedy..doesn't make them bad people who were instantly thinking about the $$$ before their child was in the ground.
Several years after our older daughter passed away, my children and I were hit by a car driven by an elederly driver (88), who lost control of his vehicle while pulling into a gas station. (he hit the gas instead of the brakes..very common especially with older folks)This while on route to Disney World for a family vacation. My kids were three and and seven at the time. We had pulled off the highway, and into the nearest gas station because we were having car trouble.
My then three year old son, was air lifted and flown to Childrens National Medical Center in DC..and my daughter was taken to a local hospital by ambulance. Our older son, was traumatized, as it was he and his father who pushed this mans car off of us, while I screamed and banged on the hood for him to back up, as we were pinned against the office wall.
Short story..my son was rushed into surgery and spent three months in a body cast, and the rest of the year learning to walk again. He has scars on his leg that will never go away from tears and avulsions that took MONTHS to heal. My daughter has a permanent injury to her right leg from the swelling that occured.
Trust me, I know
all to well, what it's like to be on the receiving end of some of the accusatory insinuations much like the ones heard here.
"Mrs. Smith..if you saw the car...why is it you didn't place yourself in front of the children so as to prevent their injuries?"...
(gotta love that one)
Umm..I'm not superwoman, but I live with guilt everyday. Thanks for asking.
Or another good one was....
"Mrs. Smith...why, didn't you take your children to the park directly across the street from the gas station, while your husband tended to the car?Wouldn't that have been safer for the children.?"
Let me see, I really wanted for my children to be crushed against a wall, and watch as my son's guts spread out onto the road.
Excuse me, but I can't help but hear just an inkling of this familiar superior tone expressed in some of the posts here. The insinuation by some that the parents weren't diligent enough in caring for their child. That's rubish.
I was lucky enough to have an attorney there by the time my boy came out of surgery. MY BROTHER is an attorney. Now, granted, truth be told.. he's not always my favorite person either..
but that has nothing to do with his profession.
Yes, he was clear thinking..he wasn't emotional..(okay, he was a little emotional as his daughter looks like my son's twin)..As my boy lay in his hospital bed, he told me not to worry about ANYTHING..but getting my kids the help they needed. That he would handle everything else. He did. He was at the scene taking pictures before it was twenty fours old and before anything could be conveniently moved. He hired attorneys from Maryland that would later continue our case.
Now before you think we walked away with a boatload of cash..we didn't. We settled, because it could go on forever...and it did.
My son has enough to get through school..and we're talkin' a state school. Only you know what really came of it...
The gas station where my kids were hurt..had to close the damn snack shop they had and put back a safe waiting area for it's customers.
Imagine, no one else will have to look at their childs guts on the ground.
Look folks, all I'm saying..is that there are a lot of variables here that we aren't privy to. Believe me..there are details regarding this accident none of us know. I will not bash the parents because they had the good sense..yes, even in their grief..to hire a lawyer. I believe that likely a friend or family member said to them...."I'll take care of it, you take care of your family."
I'm just sayin' there's A LOT out there that we just don't know about. Much of which will come out in depositions. Sure, it's likely it will never go to court. Now, maybe they'll get something, maybe they won't. Only I won't pass judgement on their character based on what I've read here. I've walked in their shoes.
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