Roz_Plater's Blog

The easiest way to save lives, I'm afraid is more birth control.

Any parent who lets their 6 year old dart into a busy street, between parked cars no less deserves some type of reckless child endangerment charge.

How long would it have taken to walk her kid across the street... 30 seconds... maybe a full minute?

Even if the car was doing the speed limit, a 6 year old can't be seen between two parked cars.

BTW - anyone know where the crosswalk was? I don't believe it was more than 25 feet away.

what's the deal ...give the selfish, impatient commuters some slack in their moods while on the roads ...cell phone stuck in their ears, readin' up on somethin' while behind the wheel, grooming themselves, blowin' down some community back street to see if they can circumvent delays they might suffer if they stay on the intended commuter travelways ...and as I remarked earlier someone has a wiff of "somethin' rotten in Denmark" as to the guilty hit and run maggot out there

for the sake of knowledge it's conceded there's questions lying in an unescorted kid, a kid who didn't have the caution they should've ...now, in the balance, what share of blame do you put on the hit and run driver???? …and what’s your attitude on how harshly that driver should be treated for their offense

ya have to appreciate, just like communities in suburbia, this location is a residential community also, but the demands of driver skill and attention are much greater when ya want to detour through an urban community ...roadways are more restrictive and driving woes are enhanced over and above many of suburbia's more spacious roadways

It's the driver's fault but it's the mother's fault also for not being responsible. Bringing charges against her will do nothing to bring her child back, she is suffering already enough. If she was there she could have maybe prevented the accident from happening. It's not and accident anymore because the driver left the scene. Nobody knows when an accident will happen; that's why it's called an accident. I am also angry at all these parents that do not have their child in a car seat or a seatbelt. What is the sense of putting the child in a car seat if it is not fastened? I see this a lot when driving. The first thought that comes to mind is where is the police. These acts is child neglect.

I would say the blame is 50/50. The driver was responsible for driving safely and as Destany1 said his "accident" turned into a crime as soon as he/she left the scene. Maybe he/she just panicked but my guess is that this murderer probably left because there was something more that he was doing wrong (no license, stolen car, drunk, drugs, illegal alien...none of which are valid excuses for hit and run) On the other hand, a mother is responsible for the safety of her child. They knew before this happened that this street was unsafe "even for adults" so why on earth would she send her six year old into that street alone? I feel that the mother has already paid a dear price for her neglect. The driver should spend some serious time in jail as the murderer he/she is.

I want to say THANK YOU to all that have posted here so far! It's nice to know that brilliant minds think alike because I, too, am angered by the fact that not one single word has been said about making the family accountable for that child's loss of life. Sorry for the run-on sentence, but this really ticks me off. Why does it seem like children are expendable? Is it because more can be made so easily?

I am an EMT & I can't tell you how many injustices I've seen against children in my profession. If they're not being abused & neglected, then they go unsupervised. They aren't secured in a vehicle. And when a child is injured or killed, the family looks so stunned. Why?

This baby died for no good reason. Shame on the family that was too busy or whatever their excuse is...yet there is NO good excuse for what happened to her.

As for the $10K reward for information about the driver...that's just sick, in my opinion. I could never take blood money in exchange for information like that. I would give the information up willingly, with no strings attached because it's the right thing to do. How dare someone profit from the death of that baby!

I'm not sure where I heard it but early on I heard that it had Maryland tags, has that been confirmed?

Destany1, yes the driver IS AT FAULT as well, however the fact still remains that if the child's mother would have taken her across the street using the crosswalk, this would not have happened. Kids dart out in the street all the time, sometimes you can't avoid the collision by all means the driver should have stopped. This child was hit by a SUV, maybe the driver didn't see that very small child and thought he just ran over something in the street.... That's possible, but I am sure by now, he/she knows that a child was hit and killed and should turn themselves in. I can't imagine what the family is going through but a good parent would not let a child cross a busy street in the middle of rush hour like that. I have sympathy for the situation, but not the parent. LAZY, LAZY, LAZY.... This child died because of LAZINESS. What a way to go. Another thing, it just amazes me that know one thought to write down tag numbers, or remember the make of the SUV.