on this day, 1998:
A 35-year-old woman and an 11-month-old boy were killed and 10 other children and adults were hurt Friday night when a police van hit a squad car and careered into a crowd of spectators waiting for the Holidazzle Parade to begin on Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis.
Screaming parents tried to pull children out of the way, smoke rose from the van and spectators ran in every direction to escape. Within minutes, the scene was swirling with officers, ambulance drivers and state troopers trying to move the crowd back and treat the injured.
and then:
Prosecutors said Tuesday that no misdemeanor charges will be filed against Minneapolis police officer Thomas Sawina for accidentally driving a police van into Holidazzle parade spectators in December, killing a woman and baby and injuring 11 others.
suprise!
happy holidays!
6 comments:
Season's greetings, Debbie Downer.
You conveniently left out the fact that they found a malfunction in the van's braking components, (dis)...
conveniently, it happened at a parade.
how fast was he going, do you think, tuffy?
Stop being agitators, you two. A little simple research would have found that the cause of the accident was the ill-advised installation of an electrical device by a city mechanic that caused the van's "shift-lock" to malfunction.
People died. And I'm sure the families of the victims (including the driver of the van, a police officer) would be offended if they saw this post.
http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/hise/safety-critical-archive/1999/0215.html
they should be offended.
the mpd is at fault any way you slice it.
poor mataintence is not an excuse.
poor driver education is not an excuse.
as you said, people died.
i think people should be reminded of the event.
would you be talking about it, and the families/officers involved if i hadn't brought it up?
thats the only way that things will ever change.
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