I can't believe she did that

[sestree]

Copied in it's entirety from WUSA9
http://www.wusa9.com/rss/local_article.aspx?storyid=48682


Two children have been taken to the hospital after they were hit by a car just before 8:00 this morning.

Laurel City Police say it happened in the 900 block of Montrose Avenue.

Police say the children's grandmother had let them out of her car, and told them to cross the street. But a car was coming.

The driver tried to avoid the kids, but could not. The driver stayed on the scene.

Both children are expected to survive

Here's my issue. Just who is haphazard enough to let kids off from a car and tell them to cross the street? That's a windy area there (not blow like wind but wind like corkscrew) with limited visibility. No crosswalks to amount to either. This is the back shortcut to the mall from 198 and it's heavily traveled by the locals. Maybe there's more to the story than they're reporting --- I certainly hope so because otherwise the Grandma needs to be brought up on child endangerment charges.

UPDATE: The kids were 7 and 10. pyllgrum sent me the NBC4 link:
http://www.nbc4.com/news/8878130/detail.html

... this report also says the grandmother said it was OK to cross.

Comments

[pleepleus.livejournal.com]

The hell? I wonder how old the kids are anyway?

*backing out of post before i say really bad things about grandma*

[sestree.livejournal.com]

I wondered about that as well but it didn't say teens and in my most humblest opinion anything below a teen needs a little bit more supervision ... especially in that area.

[pleepleus.livejournal.com]

That was my general train of thought too. I mean hell, we live off of a major through route and I am still nervous about my 17 year old crossing the street.

[sestree.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. My 22 year old (he was only 20 at the time) got beat up on that street while he was walking home.

[sestree.livejournal.com]

I just posted an update and a link. The girls were 7 and 10. If you're not familiar with Laurel you're probably not familiar with that area but it is hard to see and people just fly down through there.