Electric cars

[crazy canuck]

Right you are, the article says they crossed "outside a crosswalk". But that also does not mean that they walked into traffic. There may have been no traffic when they started to cross - which one assumes.

In any event, it still does not explain why there would be criminal charges against the parents for this. Given the thousands of instances of J walking I see on my way to work, there would be a lot of people in prison. 

[Tonitrus]

Valmy is on point.  One can find things wrong in a case like this...sure.  But it is being blown out of proportion in the idea that one must always find blame...or a villain as he said.  Even the elderly driver may not be the villain here (whether she should be driving can be another question sure)...sometimes a tragedy is just a tragedy.