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Retired NFL player accidentally hits, kills 3-year-old daughter while moving truck
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| April 15, 2017
Posted on 04/15/2017 11:27:51 AM PDT by lowbridge
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posted on
04/15/2017 11:27:51 AM PDT
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lowbridge
To: lowbridge
Prayers up for Todd Heap and wife.
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posted on
04/15/2017 11:29:28 AM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
("We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag." --Donald Trump)
To: lowbridge
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posted on
04/15/2017 11:32:11 AM PDT
by
Doogle
(( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: lowbridge
So tragic. My mother’s friend did that to a neighbor’s child back in the ‘40s. He was never the same until the day he died decades later.
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posted on
04/15/2017 11:35:00 AM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
("If we cannot control our tempers, what has grace done for us?" Charles Spurgeon)
To: Albion Wilde
Poor man. Prayers up for him and his family.
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posted on
04/15/2017 11:35:26 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: lowbridge
worst way to learn to ever be aware of where children are always. prayers for him and family.
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posted on
04/15/2017 11:46:40 AM PDT
by
b4me
(If Jesus came to set us free, why are so many professed Believers still in chains?)
To: lowbridge
Years ago, a neighbor of mine had a similar tragedy. He left his home to make a quick trip to the store. He ended up backing right over his young son who was evidently playing with toy cars right behind his pickup in the driveway.
It's easy to judge these kind of things but tragic accidents do happen to the best of us. He was not drunk or anything. He just didn't look behind his truck and his son did not realize that the starting engine meant imminent danger to himself.
That was 20 years ago. The neighbor was devastated and he and his wife quickly put the house up for sale and moved out of state. Hope they are doing well.
To: lowbridge
Professional drivers walk completely around their vehicles before driving, checking for obstacles as well as low tires, etc.
All drivers would be wise to do the same.
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posted on
04/15/2017 12:06:54 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
To: MayflowerMadam
True. I just don’t know how one might ever live with it, let alone get past it.
Faith, deep hard-earned faith, is all that one can hold to.
May God hold them close in return, and give them strength.
To: lowbridge
Prayers. Very sad, something similar happened to a couple we knew.
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posted on
04/15/2017 12:09:49 PM PDT
by
Dante3
To: Fightin Whitey
You're right - the pain is unimaginable. Pray he has, and keeps, faith. His ONLY consolation might be the fact that she immediately went to heaven and will celebrate Easter with Christ.
To: Dante3
I am very familiar with a family that had a similar accident. Dear Lord please comfort these people.
To: SamAdams76
The teenage son of Christian music star Stephen Curtis Chapman backed over his little sister & killed her. Chapman wrote a couple of songs about her.
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posted on
04/15/2017 12:17:19 PM PDT
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: Jeff Chandler
Professional drivers walk completely around their vehicles before driving, checking for obstacles as well as low tires, etc.
All drivers would be wise to do the same.
I always garage my car at home. I back into the garage so that I don't have to back out of it, where my vision is very limited.
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posted on
04/15/2017 12:20:50 PM PDT
by
867V309
(Lock Her Up)
To: lowbridge
To: SamAdams76
He just didn't look behind his truck and his son did not realize that the starting engine meant imminent danger to himself. In many of these cases, people actually are looking behind, ahead, or whatever; the small child just happens to be in a "blind spot" because their height is so short versus the height of the vehicle hood or tailgate.
That's why these new proximity sensor systems in vehicles are so great. They will save a lot of lives...
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posted on
04/15/2017 12:28:06 PM PDT
by
sargon
("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
To: Jeff Chandler
"Professional drivers walk completely around their vehicles before driving, checking for obstacles as well as low tires, etc."
Same applies to mariners... walk the length of your vessel on both sides of the deck and then check on the engine room (you may run into a party there...engines cover the noise and the three Detroit Diesel 12V92's air intakes sanctify the atmosphere)
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posted on
04/15/2017 12:28:52 PM PDT
by
capt. norm
(Two can live as cheaply as one...but for only half as long)
To: SamAdams76
I’m not a big fan of those back up alarms they put in pick ups that detect objects in the path behind you, but something like this helps you understand what they’re aiming at.
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posted on
04/15/2017 12:29:04 PM PDT
by
skimbell
To: sargon
Agreed. My newest cars have backup video and also those sensors that tell you when it is safe to change lanes or when you are over the white lines on a highway (without blinkers being on). Amazing technology. I’m all for it.
To: lowbridge
Prayers to them. This happened to a family in my old neighborhood and the father never forgave himself, and the mom didn’t forgive him either. Dreadful all around for all.
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