A 66-year-old suspect was arrested at the scene, police said.
Two children are dead and 15 people were injured after a woman drove her car into a child’s birthday party, Sheriff Troy Goodnough said in a press conference Saturday evening.
The two children who were pronounced dead at the scene were siblings, an 8-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy, according to police.
That’s beside the point.
Is it? The US tries really hard to frame its systemic failures as personal responsibility problems. There’s a reason the US has significantly higher both drunk driving rates and vehicle vs pedestrian collision rates compared to the rest of the developed world. If everybody has to drive a car everywhere to do anything because that’s how the system’s been built, then there’s going to be consequences for that. Car-based infrastructure, car-based consequences, it’s not rocket surgery.
When someone loses control of a vehicle, especially the big, heavy vehicles auto makers have been pushing lately, the car-based consequences are going to be much more catastrophic than someone losing control of a bicycle or their own two feet.