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A police van speeding to the scene of a crime hit an SUV in Brooklyn, causing two children in the car to be ejected into a street in Brownsville. Six year old Diamond Nicholas is in a medically induced coma, and his ten year old brother Raven was injured seriously as well; five police officers were injured as well, though not as severely (broken knee, broken arm). Their mother, substitute teacher Pearl Nicholas, had been driving them home from school when the police van "smashed into the passenger side of Nicholas's green Jeep, sending it spinning into a lamppost and then into a chain-link fence," according to the Post; the Nicholas family says that everyone was buckled in the Jeep Cherokee. The van, on its way to help an officer in pursuit of a man with a gun, had its sirens and lights on, but the family is reportedly blaming the cops for going too fast. However, they are happy with the plainclothes officer who rushed one of the boys to Brookdale Hospital.
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Gee, I hope they weren't going too fast when they rushed the little boy to the hospital.
Only in NYC have I seen cars ignore emergency vehicles. Even blocking intersections while the siren screams away right behind them.
I would hate to have to rely on their services while in Manhattan. I just don't understand why everyone doesn't pull over when they hear a siren.
And now we're at the stage where we don't expect a police van, with sirens blaring, to be going fast! This world has already gone mad. But how do we get it back? May I suggest cameras to catch the action and big fines (or bans?) for people who don't move. Money is a great motivator, it seems.
The whole point of the siren on emergency vehicles is to alert people that there is an emergency vehicle approaching. Drivers should if they hear a siren (which they should if they aren't playing their car stereo illegally loud) attempt to figure out where the siren is and what action they should take - stop, pull to the side, etc. It is not rocket science and is most likely in the motor vehicle code!
Now my personal favorite is the taxi driver who chases the ambulance to go faster.
No way those kids were buckled in and thrown from the car. This is yet another sad case of a driver who undoubtedly heard the sirens but wouldn't get out of the damn way, and now her son is paying for it.
Tara: Yeah, the first question that came to mind was, "were those kids wearing their seatbelts?" Tragically, probably not.
She's a substitute teacher, too! And people wonder why the NYC school system is so messed up.
I think this story will prove all the more tragic when they prove those kids didn't have seatbelts on...if the 6 year old dies, the mother should be held accountable for his death.