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Posted by: ipodwheels 1 year, 6 months ago

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This article is a provocative challenge for everyone. The children's names listed in it are all true. Sadly, though, they are also truly dead. Please don't add to the list. Please Think!...

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natashas1 year, 6 months ago

This makes the sickest point.
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2sidestoeverything1 year, 6 months ago

Wow a powerful commercial in the saddest way.
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charbarred1 year, 6 months ago

Sadly in the UK this commercial and others of its kind are constantly on TV. It kills your evening, but it does make you think.
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aquarius4481 year, 6 months ago

Good food for thought, and caution.
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neuroticus1 year, 6 months ago

Our traffic law enforcement is a complete joke. Where else do you find 99% of people brazenly breaking (practically shattering) the law and police do almost nothing.
If society does not like a speed limit, than change it. Otherwise, enforce it. To do neither, only undermines respect for law and order. And creates sickening commercials like these.
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  cappy8771 year, 6 months ago
  
  Thats because police agencies are understaffed and have a hard enough time keeping up with other duties like responding to calls and doing the massive amounts of paperwork involved.
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    Jaydub66691 year, 6 months ago
    
    Yea buy they sure as hell have the time to pull me over for a freaking seat belt violation when I'm not even speeding!!
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cincybabe1 year, 6 months ago

So so depressing. But it did make me think.
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mbkijb1 year, 6 months ago

creepy-effective.
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XBand1 year, 6 months ago

Effective: Yes
Creepy : Yes
What does it make me think about ? Control comes from both sides. It makes me want to ask a question... Are we too busy with our lives to educate BOTH sides ? Yes we have bad drivers and they should take notice. But it seems that as pedestrians we forget to look out as well. Not knowing how that child was hit... I know when I was being raised if I walked out in the street like that my mom would have tanned my hide! oops I forgot cant do that anymore. How many people have not looked where they were going and walked infront of your car? Yes I do belive in giving th right-of-way but also as a pedestrian I have to have the common sense to look out for myself and my fellow driver... It works both ways ...
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  funatwork1 year, 6 months ago
  
  You have to have common sense agreed but that exactly why the speed limit is lower around school zones, becuase kids dont necessarily use there common sense when they are together. They arent walking with there parents to get scolded, they are walking with their friends and talking and not paying attention, thats what kids do. That is why it is our resposibility as resposibility as responsible adults to take extra caution to account for the kids poor decisions.
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2Labs1 year, 6 months ago

Makes me think her parents shouldn't let her play in the street and they will give her a 100% chance.
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TheAttacks1 year, 6 months ago

I guess shock is the only way to make a point now a days.
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david_nwpa1 year, 6 months ago

When I was 12 I was hit by a car as I was crossing a street. The driver of the car that hit me was driving north to Detroit to meet his son who had had a heart attack and was being treated at a hospital. My father had let me out of the car and said I could walk to my grandmother's house to visit her while my brother got a hair cut. I got past the first lane, but was struck in the oncoming lane. The driver had a blood alcohol level of slightly about 0.1 and was tested by breathalyzer. Still the Michigan police never arrested the man. He was never charged with a crime. That was 1981. Have times changed since then?
In our zeal to protect children, we have lowered the drinking levels in all 50 states to 0.08. I am not sure whether this change would have been that helpful. It did not stop the driver of the car from drinking beforehand.
My point is that drivers and parents alike must take responsibility before hitting the road.
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  protoham1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Why we are allowed to go faster than 20 mph is beyond me.
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MajJohn1 year, 6 months ago

Sick
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ipodwheels1 year, 6 months ago

I think the article reaches out to those in and out of the cars. Children are not only pedestrians but sometimes are inside the car when accident happens. Either way, a notch too high on the speedometer can really prove lethal.
Parents who drive should take the best caution when driving with their kids. Many a time, a child gets killed when a parent gets distracted while doing 80 on the road.
Everyone is responsible. That is what we should be thinking, I guess.

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evelyna1 year, 6 months ago

If they wanted to make an impact they should have shown a child being hit and body parts flying in all directions.
I travel on turnpikes and busy highways. I can text msg and cell phone too. I always look in front and behind.
Most of the time I am going slow because people on welfare are not in a hurry and the old acts like the world owes them a 20 mph speed limit in the left lane.
People should keep their kids inside and not on the highways.
Why should I always have to accomodate the world-I am paying for all of the useless cargo.
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lakeside551 year, 6 months ago

Very effective, sad and haunting. I think I'll hear that sound of bone crunching the rest of the day.....
Safety is everyone's issue. We all need to watch out for each other and help assure the safety of children - our future.
It's a legal and more responsibility.
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tryingtofindmyway1 year, 6 months ago

Good grief what propoganda. I don't want to be a brute but that's a short list. People die tragically every day. It's just part of life. In the overall scope of things, the few people who die by getting hit by cars are an insignificant statistic, and certainly not justification for paranoia or overkill traffic laws. A friend of mine was killed in a car accident when his seatbelt cut into his throat. I didn't fly off the handle and demand the reversal of seatbelt laws. I Also had a friend who was killed when her very small economy car was hit and flipped by a heavy duty truck. I didn't give demanding safer cars or smaller trucks a second thought. Tragic as they are, they are a part of life, and should be treated as such. When people react out of personal experience, they tend to miss the bigger picture and to think very egocentrically. Individual tragedies and experience don't justify changes in public policy and law.
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protoham1 year, 6 months ago

Just like Anna Nicole Smith, do you not think intellegence would make a difference.
STAY OUT OF THE ROAD AND LEAVE THE DRUGS ALONE!!!
Simple words to live by.
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AnvilHead1 year, 6 months ago

The point people is that the higher your speed the greater the likelyhood that a child struck by you has a greater likelyhood of untimly death. Slow down where children are likely to be.
The street in front of my house has a speed limit of 35, my daughter when crossing the street looked left and saw no one, looked right and stepped into the street. She was struck by an 85 year old man doing in excess of 45mph. They drive so fast on my residential street that in the time it takes to turn your head a car can appear and take your childs life.
Slow down.

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