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Originally Posted by midgetlover  Since you are so stuck on unisured drivers "Whos fault is it when a parent removes their child in the street instead of on the curb?" |
I'm a little too simplistic, I guess, but I always thought an accident was blamed on whomever was the last person who could have avoided it. So, in the instance of a child hit when being let out of a car on the street side instead of the curb side, it would be the driver's fault for being inattentive. Right? Sure, we all know the parent used bad judgement, but the last person who might have avoided the accident would be the driver who could have swerved or slammed on their brakes, but instead, was talking on the cell phone, adjusting hair or makeup in the mirror or jivin' to their tunes.
The deal is, we KNOW parents made bad judgement calls. We KNOW drivers make bad judgement calls. We can't legislate good judgement, no matter how hard we try. Our dear legislators, overpaid as they are, would be up all night every night trying to solve everybody's problems with a new law.
No matter whose fault, both the driver will feel guilty (I'm not sure I could ever drive again if I hit and injured a child), the parent will feel guilty and the child....well, the child will never be the same. So nobody will walk away unscathed.