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Originally Posted by bitontheslide

it's pretty simple. its against the law to ride them on the pavement and the kid shouldn't have been riding it on the pavement

Obviously truly tragic for this lady and for her family and friends, but I have to say I do have some sympathy for the kid involved. He is after all just a kid and this will, most likely, be something that affects him for the rest of his life.

I don't say that lightly either; my own grandmother was killed by a teenage driver who came into town over the speed limit, over a blind hill and knocked her down (she died of complications from a head injury a few months later). He was fully to blame for the accident and I'd say behaving in a significantly more reckless manner than the kid in this story, and a few years older, AND having passed a driver's test so far fewer excuses. And it triggered a knock-on effect that saw my mum descend into poor mental health/alcoholism that ultimately killed her, too. But I nonetheless have sympathy for even him. When there's no malice involved and it's someone so young, it's just an all-round ****ed up situation.