(I am just shaking my head at the sadnes- how fast things can be foreevr altered in peoples lives)
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well, the boy who was hit- Brian, was in Ireland with easy child on the chorus trip. The other kids from school got angry at him, becuz he was unmercifully teasing another girl on the trip whose father was involved in an awful car fatal car accident tragedy just blocks from where todays was----but now the kids feel guilty about being angry at the boy who got hit. Ironically, the kids who had gone to Ireland had just gone back to school today, and the boy Brian was on his way to his school bus this morning. Several kids witness the accident, and several kids also saw the boy both before and after the paramedics arrived and before the helicopter arrived. He was airlifted and helicoptered into the city. The school dean has said his condition has gotten gravely worse since getting to hospital- he WAS conscious immediately after the accident, but, could not move, not even his head. (per the kids who were there)
The boy who hit him, JUstin.....ah, a true difficult child tale. He was recently involved in...a stabbing at a bar in town here. Seems someone was threatening and harming his girlfirend so he stabbed the guy - he claims- in defense of his girlfriend. So he is already going to court for that (altho court here for such things commonly drags out into being month after month of continuances for a few YEARS)
WOrd is he was going maybe 60 MH when he hit the other kid.on a stretch of road with a 35 MPH limit in a all residential area, a block from a 4 way stop. (actually directly in front of the fire dept amidst the houses)
So at the moment I have a house full of kids- some friends of the victim, some friends of the ...um- person at fault....the friends of the driver trying to say hey the driver has a BIG car (truck?) with a big engine.....um, sorry, I do not care how big the car might be----a block from a stop sign you should not be able to build up speed of 60 MPH anywhere, even if it were a 65 MPH zone....(and truly, my bug builds up to a faster speed far quicker than my big 8 cylinder durango)
THe kid got hit, and I guess hit windsheild, but, I guess it is just still so much to do with just where on him got hurt and how it got hurt, etc....so the kids were looking to me to say whether the kid would be 100% okay again ever, or what? I had to tell them it is just SO unpredictable. BUT if hospital told the dean he was gravely worse, that implies to me it is really bad.....plus being helicoptered and taken where he was is a very bad sign.
The kids want to know if the school has any responsibility, becuz the kid was on his way to get on his schoolbus when he got hit. I had to tell them I have no idea.....I do not know if he was where he is supposed to be, where the school said to be or whatever? (well, obviously the school did not tell him to be IN the road and from the looks of the police spray paint in the road, he was in middle of road)
The boy who was driving is not in jail at this time, has not been arrested for anythnig, so far he just has a bunch of traffic tickets ----but who knows if and when that might change. He did take a knife to himself right after the accident, after he got his tickets and went home. Someone (difficult children friend) intervened, but.noone had him transported to any psychiatric facility or anything. BUT he IS defending himself saying the other kid jumped in front of him.
The kids want to know if he will go to prison for this. I had to tell them I certainly could not even guess. I have been sitting in the courthouse across the street 2-4 days every month for almost 3 full years now- watching so many many cases come before the judges in criminal court, and there does not seem to me to be a lot of ryhme or reason. Our court system seems to send some people to jail or prison for some weird things and also seems to let some people go who have some seemingly pretty hefty ugly charges against them. BUT considering the boy who was driving this morning already is in court for a stabbing incident, I am gonna guess he is in a heap o trouble, boy. I would also assume he is GONNA be under some heavy scruitny and I would not be surprised if he gets tickets for jaywalking and spitting on sidewalk. Only thing he has in his favor is where the accident occured today, where he lives- they are not really "our" town----they are a very tiny little town, and their kids go to our schools, they use our police- if and when their is a problem, but they do not have patroling police there. so there are no police available to be watching him as if he would have if he lived here.
Such a sad thing, 2nd one for the kids at PCs school this school year, and it makes the kids get divise at each other- blaming etc fingers pointing, people defending etc. Such a sad thing. More sad, this is like the 15th incident with kids from the area here.....but the majority of them involve the private HS kids here. THEY have had SEVERAL fatalities at THEIR school this year, so very sad. we are a small town. It is sad for everyone, and all the families and friends.
Driving is such a serious responsibility. And it can be so unforgiving. I am so glad right now I still have not let my oldest get her license. She is not aggressive, but she can be impulsive. I just want to grab ALL the kids here right now and shake them and say SEEE SEE you MUST be SO careful!
