I cannot tell from the story exactly where the little girls were. Were they in the middle of the road covered with leaves? On the sidewalk? In their front yard? If they were in the road, some fault lies with their parents or guardians. It doesn’t say the driver jumped the curb or anything.
A couple of the comments on the site make it appear that the pile of leaves were in the road. If true, you gotta wonder where the parents were that they didn’t notice this.
A prior article I saw here said the girls were hit in their own yard.
“I cannot tell from the story exactly where the little girls were.”
Although I read about this before, I just now realized how late it was when this happened 8:30 at night.
So I poked around the site for an earlier article. Per that piece the girls were in the leaf pile, which spanned the street and the sidewalk/yard, but the cops think the girls were in the street and they do not think the car left the road. And the girl’s father was there with them, but either he was distracted or went into the house briefly at some point (that is how the article puts it, not clear at all where he actually was and it seems like he did not see what happened).
I understand that this was a terrible accident, but I wonder if the driver was some middle-aged white person if they’d get such a sympathetic write-up.
But nevertheless kids should not be playing near the street ever.