The Seattle Times: Local News: Suit filed over 2 girls killed by train
Families of two girls killed by a train in Kent are suing the city and two railroad companies for not doing more to keep children off the tracks.
As harsh as it sounds to scold grieving parents, why don’t the parents of the girls killed in this tragic accident comprehend their own role in this? Imagine the plight of the train’s engineer, knowing that the two girls in front of his train are going to be struck with severe consequences: should he have to live with that? If I were the railway, I would be considering a countersuit for loss of use of the tracks and equipment during the accident investigation.
The suit claims damages for the loss of the “parent-child relationship” and I have to ask what there was of that to be damaged?
My 3 and 5 year old will point out bicyclists without helmets, people walking on railroad tracks, joggers in the street, all things they have been told are unsafe: seems to me they could teach a lesson or two.