Trauma Ward and accompanying ...

RantWoman has learned more of her friend who was hit by a car on Thursday night.

RantWoman's friend is a member of her faith community. RantWoman has been keeping rants specific to her faith community in a separate blog for numerous reasons. However, this accident also clangs hard on RantWoman's fixations on pedestrian safety and walkability, and it seems likely that the blog threads are going to crisscoss multiple times multiple ways. RantWoman explicity does not promise to explain every piece of terminology and idiosyncratic usage in her other blog; She expects most of the points she wants to weave into this blog should be comprehensible regardless.

RantWoman learned yesterday that her friend was hit in her home neighborhood by a car going 35 mph through a red light. RantWoman's friend was walking home from her bus stop after work. Another person from RantWoman's faith community got caught in the resulting traffic backup. No one knows yet whether the driver of the car was charged; in fact, RantWoman is likely to focus most of her energy for now on what her friend and husband need most. RantWoman is unlikely to forget about the other driver or the circumstances of the accident or a number of other points, but here are more notes fresh from RantWoman's mulling of the info received yesterday.
Compassion and Outrage