Someone mentioned that I had not commented on these. She had the same first thought I did, upon reading the quote from a woman who sadly lost her father to this tragedy: ‘What in hell is someone doing out at 4 a.m., with their children, at something like that?’ Never mind why is anyone doing something like this on a street like that, where there is obviously the chance for other traffic, even at 4 a.m.? How do you spell ‘DUH!’?
As long as there are vehicles (or any other sort of conveyance, how old is horse racing?) there will be contests to see whose is fastest. But don’t let the heat of the moment, the challenge, remove common sense. You stand in a street, another vehicle might come along. You stand in smoke, they can’t see you. DUH again!
Now that people see what the outcome can be, will they act differently in another time and place? Sadly, I think not. This too will turn into something that only happens to other people, and it will happen again. But if it makes one or a few stop and think and not put themselves in the same situation, it will have given a lesson and helped. We can hope for that.
My sympathies are with all those affected.
Also, having been a driver, it saddens me that a truck driver came along and through no fault of his own contributed to this tragedy. Poor guy (or gal, I don’t recall noticing if it said) just out doing their job and thrown into a situation that will affect them for life.
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