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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] But secondly I think that, this child must have been in the street in order to Be hit by a distracted driver.[/quote]

Not only are your grammar and spelling poor, but so is your knowledge of this topic.  Distracted drivers are not paying attention and are very careless.

I live on a street that has a gentle curve that is maybe 135 degrees with a rounded bend.  The speed limit is 25 mph as is appropriate for a residential street.  On the outside of the bend, is the driveway of one of my neighbors.  She has a mailbox.  In the middle or her lawn (probably 8-10 feet past her mailbox) is a street sign about parking on the street.  And on about 15 feet on the other side is lamppost for one of those orange sodium streetlights.  It's a well lit corner.  Her mailbox has been run over 3 times by distracted drivers.  One time the skid marks ended up about 20 feet into her yard and her mailbox was about 10 feet beyond the skid marks (30 feet from the street).  Another time, the street sign was completely run over so that it was bent flat touching the ground.  The car clearly went right over the sign.  And most recently, about 3 weeks ago, someone went right through the lamppost and again (the 4th time) killed her mailbox.  All distracted drivers.  I have seen drivers texting who have drifted into the next lane.  I have seen people on a hand held cell who have drive across right side onto the shoulder and also saw a driver reading something on the cell phone and drive 2 feet over the middle double  yellow line and only wake up when a car with a much more observant driver in the opposite direction honked loudly as it swerved onto the should on that side of the road to avoid a head-on collision.

Go look at the studies of drivers who drive distracted in driving simulations.  Many, many of them have a hard time staying on the road.  So why would you make such a poor assumption that the child must have been in the street unless you were completely ignorant and just spouting off the top of your head.  You only shame yourself posting such statements without even bothering to Google the facts before you start a post.[/quote]

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