RECKLESS DRIVERS KILL KIDS  AND  OTHERS

If you click your mouse on the underlined words, youwill get more information.

Ontario's police watchdog is investigating the fatal collision that occurred on June 19, 2020 at 11:08 in the morning.  A mother and her three daughters were killed in a horrific collision in the afternoon in Brampton and they have been identified as Karolina Ciasullo 27, and her children Clara, 6, Liliana, 4, and Mila, age one.

The Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board said Ciasullo was a Grade 4 teacher at St. Isaac Jogues Catholic Elementary School in Brampton. The board extended it condolences to Ciasullo's husband and family.

Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown is blaming a reckless driver with a suspended licence for the crash.

The Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board said Ciasullo was a Grade 4 teacher at St. Isaac Jogues Catholic Elementary School in Brampton. The board extended it condolences to Ciasullo's husband and family.

Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown is blaming a reckless driver with a suspended licence for the crash.

Brown shared a video on social media late hat bight  that allegedly shows the driver, who appears to be unresponsive, lurching through an intersection as onlookers try to intervene.

In the video, the blue Infiniti coupe mounts a sidewalk while a pedestrian attempts to open the car's door and pull the driver out.

"Turn it off! Turn it off!" people can be heard yelling amid the sound of screeching tires, before the driver reverses and speeds away.

"Community members & police tried to stop the driver. He was having none of it," Brown wrote on Twitter. "He belongs behind bars for taking 4 innocent lives."

Community members & police tried to stop the driver. He was having none of it. He belongs behind bars for taking 4 innocent lives. This was his driving prior to the accident. @PeelPolice & residents did their best. This was a brazen repeat offender with no regard for human life

A northern Indiana mother of three children killed as they were crossing a rural, two-lane highway to get on a school bus will not face charges for attacking the driver who had just been sentenced to prison for the crash.

After Alyssa Shepherd was sentenced on Dec. 18 to four years in prison for the deaths of Alivia Stahl, 9, and her twin 6-year-old brothers, Mason and Xzavier Ingle, the children's mother rushed past security and attacked Shepherd. A sentence of only four years in prison is not enough punishment for recklessly killing  three small children.

Fulton County prosecutors requested a special prosecutor the previous month, saying they could not be unbiased after working closely with Ingle on the case.

Shepherd's vehicle hit the three siblings in October 2018. A fourth child, Maverick Lowe, 11, was seriously injured in the crash. A jury convicted Shepherd of three counts of reckless homicide, criminal recklessness and passing a school bus, causing injury.

After the crash, Shepherd told authorities she didn't realize that she was approaching a stopped school bus, despite its activated stop arm and flashing lights. She told police she saw the lights but didn't recognize the vehicle as a school bus until the children were right in front of her.

The Indiana Legislature increased penalties for drivers who illegally pass stopped school buses following the crash.

Five children had been killed in one week  and seven were injured when they were hit by drivers near school bus stops, authorities said. The incidents were in Indiana, Mississippi, Florida and Pennsylvania and   brought attention to pedestrian safety and distracted driving across the United States.

Crossing the street to their bus stop in the morning in rural Indiana, 9-year-old Alivia Stahl and her twin 6-year-old brothers, Mason and Xzavier Ingle, were fatally struck by a pickup truck.

Alivia held her brothers' hands and shielded them from the oncoming truck, their uncle told CNN affiliate WRTV.

The 24-year-old driver was arrested on three counts of felony reckless homicide and misdemeanor passing a school bus with the arm extended. She was released on $15,000 bond. Another student injured in the incident was airlifted to a hospital in Fort Wayne.

A 22-year-old man was charged with aggravated assault in the incident, Mississippi Highway Patrol Capt. Johnny Poulos said. Bond was set for the driver at $10,000.

A 19-year-old man hit and injured a kindergartner who was crossing the street to board a school bus.

The driver realized too late that the bus was stopped with arm extended, police said. He was given two traffic citations, the Leon County Sheriff's Office said.

A 7-year-old boy from Franklin Township was found dead on side of the road by his home after he was run over by a slow-moving vehicle, authorities said. "Evidence had shown that the child was run over at a slow speed," Pennsylvania State Police Troop "A search warrant was obtained for a vehicle that was in the area at the time.

The bus driver on route arrived at the stop discovering the situation, contacted 911 and remained at the scene until first responders arrived.

 Five children and two adults were rushed to a hospital after a car struck pedestrians at a school bus stop, police spokesman Eddy Durkin said. One child was in critical condition but none of the injuries were considered life-threatening. Three of the children were 6 years old, one iwas 9 and one was 12.

Images from the scene show backpacks scattered on the ground.

Witnesses reported that a Ford Escort driving at a high rate of speed in a residential area hit the pedestrians on the side of the street, , but police later said it was unclear whether the driver, a 47-year-old man, had been speeding. The driver stayed at the scene.

A careless driver’s school bus mowed down and killed a 10-year-old girl as she walked to school with her big brother, who was left stunned and injured on the bloody Brooklyn street. Young Patience Heaven Albert and her 15-year-old brother were in the crosswalk at Wortman Ave. and Crescent St. in East New York when she was hit by the bus about 6:45 a.m.

She was one of four pedestrians killed by vehicles in New York City in a 48-hor period.

Three children had a terrifying experience the night of
November 1^st, 2019 when their mother suffered a heroin overdose while driving with them and two dogs on a Florida highway.

The woman, who was revived and later charged, was able to pull over before losing consciousness in front of her 1-year-old baby, 6-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter.

In a 911 call released by the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, the suspect’s oldest child is heard sobbing while trying to give dispatchers the location of the minivan, which stopped on Interstate 4 near the city of DeLand around 7 p.m.

“My mom won’t wake up and we’re on I-4 in the car,” she told police moments before deputies found the vehicle.

Authorities said the driver, 28-year-old Tiffany Smith, woke up after paramedics gave her Narcan, an anti-overdose medication. She then told deputies she was driving to South Carolina when she started having back pain and decided to take heroin for it, according to police.

“Is that something you should be taking for your back?” a puzzled official is heard asking in the video police shared on Facebook. Smith said she had no other painkillers in the car.

Authorities said she be taken into custody after receiving medical treatment.

Her children were not injured and were placed in the custody of their grandmother. The dogs were turned over to the country’s animal control officers.

In my opinion, she should lose custody of her children and her licence to drive should be suspended for a minimum of four years.

Nicolas Karvouniaris, who pleaded guilty in May 2019 to two counts of dangerous driving causing death and one count of dangerous driving causing bodily harm for the crash that killed Sarah Dhillon, passenger Paige Nagata, and Livia Kilian received a 20-month sentence for the devastating accident. The sentence is far to little for killing a person because of dangerous driving.

When it comes to pedestrian safety, the armband strategy doesn’t work. It doesn’t work for the following reason: according to reporting by the Star’s May Warren, Toronto police data indicates that most (51 per cent) of the “pedestrians and cyclists who are killed or seriously injured on city streets are hit by drivers in daylight hours with good visibility.” In other words, fluorescent armbands cannot be the solution — short-term or long-term — to a problem that doesn’t live in the dark.

Toronto, Canada`s largest city, is becoming a city of fluorescent lighting in which the people, not their surroundings, shine bright. The people shine bright, the story goes, because if they don’t — if let’s say, residents neglect to wear their reflective arm bands, they might be struck down by a car and killed while crossing a street.

If you’re unfamiliar with this notion, consider that Toronto Councillor Cynthia Lai handed out complementary red and yellow armbands to seniors at a mall in Scarborough, in an attempt to educate the public about pedestrian safety. Seniors, we know, are at high risk of being struck on Toronto’s streets.

Lai and other well-meaning figures in government and policing, presumably hope to prevent pedestrian deaths by putting safety tools directly into the hands of citizens. Wearing high-visibility clothing or reflective gear is a key part of keeping everyone safe.

Asking residents to dress in bright colours to avoid danger, doesn’t sound like the comprehensive safety policy of a sophisticated metropolis. It sounds like the policy of a group of kids whose flashlights have run out of batteries on a canoe trip.

Many activists oppose the armband strategy in part because they consider it a form of “victim blaming” — their point being that if you tell pedestrians to wear bright colours, the responsibility of preventing road tragedies shifts from drivers to pedestrians.

 

A person is to be regarded as driving dangerously by the way he/she drives falls far below what would be expected of a competent and careful driver, and it would be obvious to a competent and careful driver that driving in that way would be dangerous. 

In England and Wales and Scotland, a person guilty of dangerous driving is liable, on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, or to a fine, or to both, or on summary conviction, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months, or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or to both.

Any conviction for dangerous driving (or causing death by dangerous driving) for a driver holding a licence issued by the Driver and Vehicle Agency (Northern Ireland) or Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (for licences issued  in  Ebgland Wales or Scotland) will result in a mandatory disqualification if the offence took place in the United Kingdom proper, Isle of Man or Republic of Ireland (see also Traffic violations reciprocity).

The driver must return to being a learner driver, even if the offence did not result in death or grievous bodily harm, and an extended practical driving test, about 70 minutes long and about 30 minutes longer than the regular driving test, must be taken by the driver to regain his or her full driving licence.

The Ontario provincial government has begun to enforce penalties that include a longer jail sentence. Penalties include possible jail time of up to two years and a fine of up to $50,000 for drivers convicted of careless driving causing bodily harm or death.

As I said earlier in this article, if someone is killed by a driver, the jail sentence should be more than four years.