What is not being told about that truck is it parks on the sidewalk where pedestrians walk, and when they get a call for a tow they make an illegal left turn to get to the toll bridge, so that mother and her son may not have crossed against the light, you would have to be familiar with the area to understand the setting, I know because I go that way everyday on my way to work, a lot of cars also make that illegal turn, more than once cars have turned in front of me as i was crossing that street and i had the light.

"Police are trying to determine whether the mother and son were on the sidewalk or in the crosswalk." NYPost.com

There seems to be some confusion as to how or what led to this, maybe the mother was jaywalking but as a driver I know that pedestrians always have the right of way and I could question why the driver didn't see them but what's the point? I know if he could've avoided this accident he would have, just as the mother would have. Maybe the city needs to consider that crossing and make this ramp entrance easier for pedestrians, but I won't blame the city either, it's nothing more than a tragic accident.

While it's still not clear exactly how this happened, what is clear is that this is just a tragic accident. Unfortunately these things happen in a city of 8 million people. No matter how cautious we try to be everyone will inevitably have some kind of accident at some point in their lives, and I'm not just talking about vehicular accidents, it can be a trip and fall or an accident at work or whatever, everyone will have an accident. I think judging accidents is fruitless because hindsight is always 20-20.

So to all the people automatically trying to blame the mother, what's the point? If it is her fault it wasn't intentional and I'm sure she learned her lesson. As a society we really have to learn to be more compassionate and have a little more empathy towards each other.

It's sad that people think they're so much superior to others that accidents can't happen to them. I guess the reasoning is that she deserved for her son to die because she might have been jaywalking and that this could never happen to you because you're smarter than her and would never jaywalk. What kind of twisted logic is that? The bottomline is a young boy is dead and mother is grieving the lost of her child, try to dwell on that aspect of the story.

Pedestrians don't have the right of way if they have a do not walk signal, and the driver has a green or yellow. If it was on the right side of the above photo, there's no cross walk their either.

Seeing how people drive, and pedestrians walk, and bicyclists ride, I'm surprised there's not more people or bicyclists involved in accidents with each other and with cars.

This is downright tragic.

125th is notorious for this kind of crap. Nowhere in the city have I seen so many people walk into the middle of traffic, mid block, and just keep walking with cars barreling down on them. What the heck is wrong with people?

"I'm too good to have to wait for the light to change, who do they think they are to tell me when I can and can't cross the street?"

They be drivin UH UH I ain't be goin to wait fo dem

Jaywalking across a Triborough Bridge on-ramp with your 7 year old. I really hope this woman doesn't sleep well for the rest of her life.

she'll sue, and the money will help ease the pain.

Wait for the light if you can't use your senses first, you filthy lemurs.

lame choice of insult, TheTruth, lemurs are not filthy. they`re very cool animals that have been around MUCH longer than humans, and even primates. Check `em out.

I DID NOT call lemurs "filthy". I called these PEOPLE filthy lemurs. If lemurs were inherently filthy, I would not have to use the adjective. For example, if I called you a filthy human, it would not mean all humans are filthy. But you are, you snotty disgusting internet FUCK.

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