Posted on 01/11/2005 3:49:04 PM PST by EveningStar
PALMDALE -- A toddler died in a flooded desert wash after she fell into the fast-moving water as a helicopter was plucking her family from their partly submerged sedan.
Two-year-old Jamaia Davis' mother had driven around barricades trying to get home Sunday night to Lake Los Angeles and drove into what firefighters said was water 3 or 4 feet deep where normally dry Little Rock Wash crosses Avenue N.
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They do that all the time around here. There's usually one fatal collision a year. Indians are notorious for trying to beat a train, especially when they're all liquored up. This Indian guy who worked for my dad went to pick all the horses up at our ranch to take to the polo field, and the idiot went around the guards with 5 horses loaded into the trailer. The train took the trailer off at the hitch and threw it 500 feet into a railroad maintenance shack. Needless to say, all of the horses were killed, including my horse that I used to run the barrels in rodeos. :(
They need to prosecute this woman for contributory negligence in the death of the child.
I shouldn't be laughing but I am. ;)
Ping for mothers and other caring ladies. :)
I have actually seen people drive around the gates when a train approaches. I see it sometimes twenty times a day. Never really get used to it either. I am a locomotive engineer. Anyone here ever thinks about doing it, don't. It will take the train a minute and a half to get off the crossing whether you are on it or not. The consequences of losing the contest are brutal for the auto. And also for the mind of the engineer and conductor.
My first thought when I saw the headline was "how the heck did a kid get in the washing machine?"
I have to say, if the copter was there, why wasn't the child the first to get picked up?
I agree child death will be punishment enough, but as parents surely if you love your child you should think of the child's safety first. road was blocked for a reason. There is no excuse for stupid mistakes.
Does this woman have a name? You won't find it in the article. Strange.
Oh my, me too.
Awhile back there was an article about a man that left his young son in the car asleep while hunting. The child got out or something and died. The judge would not listen to the prosecuter. She felt the same way you did I guess and found him guilty. Evidently her sentence wasn't stiff enough though. The dad couldn't live with what he had done and went back to the same spot and sentenced himself to death. Neither you or I know what this woman feeling. Only she and God know that.
Gallows humor - couldn't resist. I'm sure I'll go to Hell for it. I also had to strangle my wit on reports from India about their "floating employees" lost in the tsunami.
In India a 'floating employee' is a migrant worker.
There was one headline that was so dreadfully hilarious with this comment in it. It was posted somewhere here on FR - which is how I found it.
Yes, it's Defendent.
I agree that it was a stupid thing to do but have you never in your life done something stupid where someone could have been killed or injured and had a "thank you Lord" moment that he protected you from yourself.
Name has been withheld, so far.
Yep, one & the same. There's quite a lot of controversy about it. Conflicting reports about whether the road was officially closed, etc. It's very sad.
There are reports that the barricade said "flooded," not road closed, at the time, and that the media is making her sound a whole lot worse than she should.
I forgot to ping you on this.
Posted ordinary sign, I should say; not "barricade." The road wasn't barricaded..
The authorities will continue their investigation and determine whether or not prosecution is warranted.
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