>>>>Oh I stand corrected. The kid should be on trial as an adult for attempted murder then.
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>>>Do not forget that the kid should also pay for all the legal fees, after all if they were able to commit a murder (the lady passed away) ...
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>>Her death was not related to the accident though (according to the story):
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>>At some point in the race, they struck an 87-year-old woman named Claire Menagh, who was walking in front of the building and, according to the complaint, was “seriously and severely injured,” suffering a hip fracture that required surgery. She died three months later of unrelated causes.
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>If she was 87 and fractured her hip, it's unlikely it was healed in 3 months, and she was probably bed-bound the whole time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_fracture
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>The prognosis for elderly people with hip fractures is surprisingly poor - an uncle of mine died that way last year. There's almost no way the fracture would not have directly caused or contributed to her death in that time frame.

A broken hip seems to do them in. I have personally seen it several times. They're already infirm and now it's hard for them to get around at all. Add this to the psychological weight of most of the people who have been important to you being either dead or living independent lives, paying sporadic dutiful visits. Needing a nurse or aide to wipe you. It doesn't add up to a recipe for vibrant good thoughts.

Bleh, gloom and doom ;-) We're all going to die, probably badly. All the more reason to make the most of the good time we have.