Illinois town mourns the 4 youngsters killed when a car barreled through their after-school camp
apnews.com
Residents of a small central Illinois city are mourning the loss of three children and a teenager who were killed in a startling vehicle collision in a building that hosts a popular after-school camp.

I’m very glad to hear that this wasn’t a targeted attack, it was just another instance of routine traffic violence that kills hundreds of people daily. That means that I don’t have to care about the victims. I don’t have to learn their names, or their stories, or see their faces splashed across the news as tragic, sainted victims of a destructive ideology. They’re just more roadkill to be tossed anonymously on the heap of bodies. Thank goodness! There’s a lot going on in the world lately, and the last thing I need is more terrorism victims to wring my hands about. I just don’t have the time or the energy.

(/satire, I hope obviously)

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    So… are these mass-killings by motor vehicles going to be the norm, like school shootings?

    I honestly don’t care whether this was terrorism, “mental health”, or a medical emergency. There’s a massive fucking problem when kids inside of a fucking building aren’t even safe from cars!

    • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.socialOPEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      It’s totally normal. I can find a bunch of news stories about children and teachers killed by cars that hit schools by searching online. There are some about kids hit and killed by school buses, hit and killed by cars when getting on or off school buses, hit and killed by cars while walking to or from school, and ton about groups of students dying in car crashes together. We’ll collectively forget about Chatham, IL by Friday.

      On a hunch, I found more than one company selling crash-rated bollards specifically to protect schools and daycare centers, so, at least there’s that.

      ETA: I saw the AP News story was featured on one of my local news sites, so I visited and found that a doctor is dead and her daughter and husband in the hospital after getting hit by a car while they were walking yesterday, another crash injured a driver and created a chemical spill (which was a different incident than the tanker truck on the other side of town that was leaking fuel after hitting something on the street), as well as a driver arrested after crashing into a horse pasture.