The vehicle didn’t hit them. A person driving the vehicle did. Stop with this regurgitation of passive police reports.
“9-year-old… hit by truck.” Someone should go have a talk with these trucks.
Yes. The car the person was in didn’t hit them. When it got close enough, it transformed. Then the person spiderman’d off their wheel (now 10ft in the air) and kicked the poor little girl.
If we want to be correct, a car doesn’t work like a gun. Bullets kill people. Guns shoot bullets and people shoot guns. Saying “Guns shoot people” or “people shoot people” isn’t a stretch.
When dealing with collisions, saying “the vehicle didn’t hit them, the person did” means the one hit never came into contact with the car.
Neither does a shooting victm come into contact with the gun or shooter. This is why the analogy works for guns and not cars.
That person was most definitely hit by a car. But today, like a hudered years ago and for the forseeable future, someone was driving that car. So yeah, they were hit by the drivier of the car. But they werem’t hit by the driver and not the car. Then they must’ve stopped driving and given the victim a run for their money with a baseball bat. Which, again, most definitely did hit them.
Putting the news site aside, you are in a community called “fuck cars”. We focus on the issue with big cars, not reckless drivers.
We point out how ridiculous it is that north america gives multi-ton death machines to 16 year olds, alcoholics, senile people, and everyone in between because you can’t take away peoples driving licenses when there is no alternative transportation.
If you are here looking for humans to hate, you should probably find a different community.
Also why tf do cops have a giant ass pickup truck now
A fleet should be a mix so when an actual pickup truck might be needed one is available.
I imagine the mix is out of proportion though for some stupid reason.
This may be an ignorant question, but… Asking from a European perspective, where pick-ups aren’t super common, what do the police have to do in North America that would require a pick-up truck?
In addition to the other reply, they could service rural areas or uneven land. What if a chase / incident starts going through a farm field kinda thing.
A lot of pickups don’t even have 4 wheel drive though. A Toyota Landcruiser, Land Rover Defender, Mitsubishi Pajero, or hell even a Fiat Panda would do a better job.
I’d hope if the police were purchasing a pickup… they’d get them with 4wd…
In my township, the police supervisor drives the truck around. I don’t know why the fuck police supervision requires a truck, but “police supervisor” is what’s written on the side of it. Maybe they put the cops back there when they’re found passed-out drunk in their regular cruisers.
The police need vehicles capable of 4x4 in rural communities and rough dirt roads. This is to access the entire comunity but also give better success in chasing the drunk dodge ram driver into the corn field. The police also sometimes have things like trailers for crime scene investigation or boats for water based policing, they need a vehicle capable of towing those.
They also use some unmarked trucks for traffic control as they blend in better allowing them to do radar more effectively.
Sometimes, they’re in the cop fleet because of civil asset forfeiture. Same reason they sometimes have Porsches and shit like that.
It’s Alberta, everybody and everything has a massive pickup truck. It’s the Texas of Canada, especially Calgary.
Ego issues with cops and conservatives
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I hate these high front ends now. Not only can you not see pedestrians, they are terrible for off-roading which is their supposed purpose. When go up any sort of incline you can’t see the road at all. A slanted down front end is better for visibility, aerodynamics, just about everything. This trend is stupid.
It’s not stupid if you’re an oil company trying to increase profits, then it makes perfect sense to make your oil guzzling death machine as big, bulky and inefficient as possible.
a slanted down hood is required if you want to sell your cars in EU and most countries of Asia. Anything else negligent homicide, and the car makers should be held accountable
thats what happen when the hood of cars become taller than actual children. Ford is responsible for countless of deaths.
Children
*Adults
And I bet the car brains blame the children.
Had someone tell me that arresting a child for walking to the park alone was ok because of all the cars.
Why were the outside??
Also: kids these days!!
CAR*
Front-view cameras for giant trucks?
Not a bad idea past a certain height
Those kids should have driven a pickup and carried a gun to defend themselves.
What makes it out of control? Are we significantly above baseline pedestrian deaths relative to previous years?
What is the acceptable amount of dead children, that if kept at that level makes letting people drive gigantic emotional support trucks worth it?
“You know what I’ve noticed? Nobody panics when things go ‘according to plan’. Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it’s all ‘part of the plan’. But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds.”
Well none would be the best obviously but that isn’t acknowledging reality. In my city we have a mandatory 25 mph max speed limit in residential neighborhoods and it is highly enforced. Policy changes can prevent these situations.
I agree that policy changes can prevent these children’s deaths. Speed limits are a nice start, but we can do better. Size limits for personal vehicles, investment in public transit and pedestrian infrastructure, repealing the myriad laws that enforce car dependency such as parking requirements, increased density and reduced zoning restrictions, banning cars in city centers, etc.
any amount of dead children should be out of control.
a white pickup truck … the driver made a turn to continue north, striking the toddler.
The 9-year-old was sitting on her skateboard, which was rolling off the driveway, when she was struck by a Dodge pickup, RCMP said in a release.
