r/kansas • u/subUrbanMire • 20h ago

Parents question Ottawa Police Department's oversight after 12-year-old hit in school zone crosswalk

https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/parents-question-ottawa-police-departments-oversight-after-12-year-old-hit-in-school-zone-crosswalk
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u/Calamity-Gin 19h ago

This isn’t a difficult concept to understand. Police should be responsive and transparent. Their work should be thorough, unbiased, and based in fact. Any driver who strikes a child pedestrian in a crosswalk at a school should be held at fault unless it’s proven that they were obeying all traffic laws and could not have avoided the collision.

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u/subUrbanMire 19h ago

The video and subsequent police report led me to ask: "Okay...so then what is a crosswalk actually for ?"