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Not the first time this has happened either, here's another similar case in Atlanta: https://abcnews.go.com/US/mother-boy-killed-hit-run-driver-probation-community/story?id=14158040

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[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That 76 year old man will live with his choice to drive at age 76 for the rest of his life.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

Which, for a man in North Carolina, will on average be -4 years

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago
[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago
[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I read it. I can't believe there were even charges against her. This is the second round of court as she was given the option of an offer to retrial. Which is extremely unorthodox.

She and her kids were crossing a street at a non crosswalk at night. A driver who had been drinking hit them (her, her daughter, and her son) and her son lost his life. Driver took off. Driver served 6 mo.

The crosswalk closest to her was 1/3 mile away, her house was just across the street from the bus stop.

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

...I think you read a very different article, nothing you said matches the story of the article at all?

You just making shit up? Or are you just a bot hallucinating llm garbage?

Nothing you wrote matches the articles story at all, what in the disinformation bullshit is this.

Also why the fuck do you have thirteen up votes?

None of you idiots read the story and just upvoted this hallucinated garbage? What is wrong with people.

The kids weren't with their mom, the article doesn't mention time of day, it doesn't say a crosswalk was 1/3 of a mile away, they were unsupervised, THE DRIVER DIDNT SERVE ANY TIME AND ISNT CHARGED, THE DRIVER DIDNT TAKE OFF, THERE WAS NO DAUGHTER, IT WAS TWO BOYS...

Seriously people, what the fuck, why are you upvoting this blatant disinformation?

The internet really is dead huh?

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

I realize the issue. You read the posted article and I read the link in the description. They are indeed different articles.

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world -5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'm pretty confident this lemmy is overrun with bots spouting hallucinated LLM garbage.

Several posters here are citing shit not remotely true about this case, and somehow you all are just eating it up and upvoting them like crazy, clearly having not read the article yourselves or you'd realize how out to lunch the posts are.

Literally making up random facts that are extremely wrong. One talks about daughters, despite there being zero daughters mentioned, only sons. Others bringing up some random dude from 2011

And when called out they backpedal with more random garbage that doesn't even make sense.

Yall, you get the fact these are obviously bots, right? Read the fucking article and stop upvoting obviously wrong statements, what us wrong with you?

[–] elfin8er@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Hello friend, I think the confusion may be that there are two articles in this post that are about two separate incidents.

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

The second article linked in the body of the post is about an incident in 2011 wherein a mother, one of her daughters, and her son were hit.

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