Senseless

- UPDATE -

Apparently, both children were wearing seatbelts, so the news article was incorrect. It is always a quick thing to judge when trying to make sense of a tragedy.

- UPDATE -

I recently received a news link talking about the circumstances of the crash:


http://www.nbc4.com/news/8291984/detail.html?taf=dc


To quote from a section of the article:

Police said the children inside the station wagon were not properly restrained.

"One of the children was a 4-year-old child and it was in the front seat of the station wagon and it should have been in the middle seat, and it was in a booster seat but it should have been in a child safety seat properly installed in the middle row of the vehicle," said Lt. Randy Stephens.

Stephens said the 6-year-old boy was either in the middle row or the back of the station wagon and was not wearing a seat belt.

I can only imagine the temptation to not buckle up, especially when just going down the road in the morning. Or the temptation to not fight with a son who maybe doesn't want to wear a seatbelt. I can only imagine why these children were not properly restrained, but to not wear your seatbelt, and to not restrain your children, is senseless. Plain senseless.

I can only image a less dire consequence had such basic safety been observed.

Senseless.

-Ed