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Originally Posted by Angie4b1g
I'm not disputing the fact that he intentionally ran the light. But that's not the same as intentionally colliding with another car.
I also definitely did not mean to seem insensitive, so I apologize if it came across that way.
I suppose I find it easier to try to find the best in people, and it just seems like it would be easier to heal by forgiving. The system will almost never give a victim the closure and justice they deserve.
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Hi Angie. My mother was pulling out of a parking space back in late September of this year. A 16 year old plowed his car directly head-on into her car. He claimed to the police that he had a seizure of some sort because he hadn't taken his medication--but he didn't have a license to begin with, and the idiot had his younger brother in the car, too.
My mother ended up in the hospital in the ICU for about about three weeks, and one week in the tier just below that, before being sent to a rehab center. She had ten crushed ribs, a broken clavicle, a broken vertebrae that still gives her back trouble and it took her weeks to start recovery not only from the surgery, but from the heavy pain medications she'd been on during that time. She's at home now with her two dogs (one was lost for 12 days while people frantically searched for him-he ran away from the car while she was being put in the ambulance.
There's very little hope she'll ever be recompensed by the family of that teenager or their insurance company for her HUGE pain and recovery.
So, while I know that kid is a person, and I'm usually a bleeding heart about other people and seeing their good side, and I hope this kid learns his lesson (whatever the hell that is), at least he didn't kill my mother, which he could have very well done, if she hadn't been in very good shape to begin with: she's 72 years old, and usually recovery with broken ribs is bleak for folks her age. But if he HAD caused her death, don't think for a minute I'd ever feel forgiving of him for a long, long, time.
I'm blathering on about this partly so you know I'm not giving a knee-jerk reaction to what you wrote. The fact this jerk effectively murdered Jessica's son through his blatant carelessness to me abrogates his rights as a decent human being.