Above this, I have posted the video.
The girl (if we are seeing up to the moment of the accident) had already STARTED to cross the road before th car comes into view. A single frame shows a later moment where the clock read 23.21.21. At that point, she appears to be about 15ft from the bonnet. The car crests the 'hill' at 23.21.19. That gives her EXACTLY two seconds between seeing the car and death. At 30mph, she would have had SIX seconds, which WOULD have been time to cross the road completely.
Now, David, be HONEST.... if you were REASONABLY expetcing cars to be at a MAXIMUM of 30mph would you have thought that 6 seconds was enough to, at LEAST, get to the center of the road? Would you have expected to be dead in less than TWO seconds.... even if you had SEEN the car...? It would take (let's guess) about 1 seconds sight of the car to have been able to assess it's speed and arrival 'time'. She only had ONE second in which to DO anything. The speed and ONLY the speed gave that poor child too little time to avoid ANYTHING. It also gave the C*** of a driver too little time..... and he KNEW he was doing 90.... when the girl could NOT have known until it was too late. If it was too little time for HIM to react, then you CANNOT blame the child! If 90 gave HIM too little time to react (and to change the inertia of the situation) then NINETY MILES PER HOUR WAS TOO F***** FAST!
Put brutally, Dave, you are talking B*LL*X, no matter HOW much I respect you in other matters!!
Ian
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