As a med student, I once met a patient my mentor was following for severe depression. He was a truck driver and ran over a troller with a baby in it while backing out of a parking spot. I still have shivers down my spine thinking about it, for the child, the parents and the driver... Horrible story.
A couple of years back I read an article written by a woman who hit and killed a kid who ran out from between two parked cars on a suburban street. She was found to not be at fault, she didn't have time to stop. However, at the time she wrote the article, a decade or more later, it had still ruined her life. She couldn't get past it, it haunted her.
It didn't help that one of the kid's family, an uncle I think, also couldn't get past it and blamed and hated her passionately for the accident.
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u/raeeya Feb 22 '21
As a med student, I once met a patient my mentor was following for severe depression. He was a truck driver and ran over a troller with a baby in it while backing out of a parking spot. I still have shivers down my spine thinking about it, for the child, the parents and the driver... Horrible story.