PG County: Two Children Killed While Walking to Riverdale Elementary

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was anyone ever arrested? This was like a week ago and the police said they had video…

The process generally takes 6-9 months before someone is charged (if someone is charged).

No it doesn’t. People are usually arrested within days

You are just plain wrong about that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was anyone ever arrested? This was like a week ago and the police said they had video…

The process generally takes 6-9 months before someone is charged (if someone is charged).

No it doesn’t. People are usually arrested within days

Especially when you have video and their names!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was anyone ever arrested? This was like a week ago and the police said they had video…

The process generally takes 6-9 months before someone is charged (if someone is charged).

No it doesn’t. People are usually arrested within days

Especially when you have video and their names!

And then it takes another 9 months while the police finish their investigation, write up their report, present the results to the county attorney's office, and wait for the county attorney's office to make a decision and press charges. Assuming the driver is even charged, which drivers typically are not. Maybe a traffic citation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These two kids have been weighing really heavy on my heart this week. I just keep thinking of the pain their families must be going through. To send your child off to school and they don’t come home right before Thanksgiving on top it. This is one of those nightmare scenarios for a parent — the kids were in a cross walk with an adult in a school zone and still got killed. How do you even prevent something like this, you can’t just put them in a bubble.

What on earth are you talking about? There are so many ways to prevent this from happening. You just don't think there are because you can't imagine a driver's right to drive as fast as possible with as little accountability as possible being infringed on in anyway.

Make no bones about it, this tragedy, and thousands of tragedies like it every year, can most definitely be prevented. There's just little political will because drivers don't want it.

Ummm don’t rant at me. I hate cars and reluctantly my family owns one because it’s impractical in the US not to have one. I am all for making towns more pedestrian friendly (myself and my family are often ones). I don’t think cars should have the right to drive as fast as possible and have never had a speeding ticket, DUI, etc. in my life.

But the reality is changing our car dependent suburbs is not going to happen overnight and we are living in the reality we have now.

I stand by my statement that what happened is a nightmare scenario for parents. We can teach our kids to look both ways, walk in a crosswalk, have an adult with them, etc. And the fact something like this happens anyway is just awful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was anyone ever arrested? This was like a week ago and the police said they had video…

The process generally takes 6-9 months before someone is charged (if someone is charged).

No it doesn’t. People are usually arrested within days

Especially when you have video and their names!

Perhaps they’ve decided not to press charges

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was anyone ever arrested? This was like a week ago and the police said they had video…

The process generally takes 6-9 months before someone is charged (if someone is charged).

No it doesn’t. People are usually arrested within days

Especially when you have video and their names!

Perhaps they’ve decided not to press charges

There will almost certainly be, at least, a traffic citation or two. But it will take months. Here's an example chronology, in a different high-profile case in Montgomery County:

August 25, 2022: bicyclist killed
November 14, 2022: driver charged with 3 traffic offenses
October 2, 2023: driver pleads guilty to 1 traffic offense

https://moco360.media/2023/10/02/not-enough-justice-for-langenkamp-family-a-year-after-fatal-bike-collision/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am always amazed that parents do not walk their ES and MS children to school in this country. Mainly because the traffic here is so insane and there are so many rash and distracted drivers on the road.

I am sure that many others will call me a helicopter parent etc, but I was vigilant to prevent my kids against accidents and crime because of such kinds of tragic news. Was it convenient for me to do so? Of course not!

The father of one of the children was also hit in the accident and was holding kids hand.