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Anonymous wrote:The ignorance and obsessive questioning about insurance here is astounding.

Yep, I just posted about this...

Why? It's a legit issue. It's not like we're ONLY commenting on money -- I have expressed more than once sorrow for this poor girl.

Because my guess, is that a bunch of you are thinking the 'evil insurance company will screw her because....greed'

It's not YOUR issue. She has close family in-state. It's theirs. If you are concerned about money, donate to the fund.

I actually find this to be a fairly interesting line of inquiry that extends well beyond this very unfortunate circumstance. If the health insurance policyholder is deceased, what provisions exist for continuation of coverage for the policyholder's dependents? If anything productive can come from threads like this, maybe it's that someone can learn something that would prevent a financial calamity on top of what would be a truly devastating event.

Call your insurance company and ask. Done.

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Anonymous wrote:Back to the traffic light, why not consider a light like the one in front of Tilden Middle School on Old Georgetown Road. The majority of the time, it just blinks yellow. But during school drop off and pick up, it is a usable light to allow cars to easily get into and out of the school. Unfortunately, it wouldn't have helped here since this happened at night...

Whitman's principal can address this in an instant. There is (or used to be) a gate on Whitman property that connects the service road to Whitman's back entrance. Simply close that gate during school hours, and no one will make the turn since it's useless then.

The crash occurred at around 7 pm on a Saturday.

Anonymous wrote:Back to the traffic light, why not consider a light like the one in front of Tilden Middle School on Old Georgetown Road. The majority of the time, it just blinks yellow. But during school drop off and pick up, it is a usable light to allow cars to easily get into and out of the school. Unfortunately, it wouldn't have helped here since this happened at night...

Whitman's principal can address this in an instant. There is (or used to be) a gate on Whitman property that connects the service road to Whitman's back entrance. Simply close that gate during school hours, and no one will make the turn since it's useless then.

Anonymous wrote:Latest update from Principal.

Dear Whitman Community, I am thrilled to convey that Congressman Van Hollen’s office has assured me that they are 100% behind the effort to get a traffic signal installed at the River Road/Pyle Road intersection. In a conference call with Congressman’s Van Hollen’s Office today, we were told that no additional emails or phone calls are needed. They are fully convinced and are aggressively putting steps into motion.

Interesting, since Van Hollen is a member of Congress and the Federal government has no authority of River Road. MD SHA does, as it's a state road.

I saw a note from Bill Frick, who IS a member of Bethesda's _state_ delegation in Annapolis, that he's working with MD SHA on it. That makes a lot more sense.

Anonymous wrote:I'm literally hitting my head against the wall. First of all, her family is a family of doctors - don't you think ONE of them has notified the insurance company of the event? Second, don't you think ONE of them will think to pay the next premium? Third, there is usually a 30 day grace period by law. Last, it's really nobody's business.

Between this and the person in the political thread who intended to vote in BOTH the democratic and republican primaries, and had NO CLUE that wasn't allowed.....

She should be eligible for child only insurance with the death of a parent being the "life event". Hard to know what the coverage is under the parents policy. My insurance is paid automatically in advance so would be paid for March.

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Anonymous wrote:The ignorance and obsessive questioning about insurance here is astounding.

Yep, I just posted about this...

Why? It's a legit issue. It's not like we're ONLY commenting on money -- I have expressed more than once sorrow for this poor girl.

Because my guess, is that a bunch of you are thinking the 'evil insurance company will screw her because....greed'

It's not YOUR issue. She has close family in-state. It's theirs. If you are concerned about money, donate to the fund.

Give me a break. None of this is OUR issue. I mean none of us was there. So why have people been talking about this for dozens of pages and speculating re what happened and whose fault it was? Fault IS our issue but insurance isn't??

Another update from Principal.

In brief, the funeral for the Buarque De Macedo family members who perished this weekend will be held this Thursday morning, March 3rd, at 11:00 at St. Vincent Chapel on the campus of Catholic University. The chapel is small, and the family would like only those that really knew the family members to sit in the chapel, but there is a lot of seating attached to but not part of the chapel. Instead of flowers, there is a scholarship fund being set up for Catholic University in the family’s name. More details will follow tomorrow. The family has requested that no media attend.

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Anonymous wrote:Why not put a traffic signal there?

Because it is a major commuting thoroughfare. And traffic lights can increase accidents.

This is what I wonder about. If traffic lights can increase accidents, surely there is a way to calculate when the benefits will still outweigh the drawbacks? How can we (local citizens without much expertise) get access to this knowledge?