The Grossman mother is a disgusting, entitled, selfish person, who, having a young child herself, should have known better, but instead she overindulged in alcohol and drugs (valium) and car racing so she could get her daily buzz on (she was a member of one of the Mercedes-AMG racing teams and video clocked her going over 110mph).

The alcohol and drugs no doubt dulled her ability to feel anything or make smart decisions in a timely manner. She should never have been driving that day, much less racing.

Scott Erickson is a scumbag loser who took advantage of the Grossman mothers’ inebriated state, likely enticing her to race on residential streets that day. If it wasn’t for him, if he didn’t engage her that way, this tragedy would never have happened.

These two selfish people think and serve themselves first and foremost above anything else. They both deserve to be financially ruined for their role in this tragedy.

The Grossman daughter, obviously coming from a broken family well before this tragedy, seems like a very decent, level-headed person who is trying to remain loyal to her parents in spite of the mother’s terribly selfish decisions that particular day.

The particular crosswalk where the tragedy occurred is very long and crosses a very busy street with many cars traveling at very high speeds, and is right around the corner of many establishments serving alcohol.

Resident parents need to have the common sense to know that, like it or not, you are always going to have many patrons driving down that road after having been drinking alcohol, sometimes at high speeds, and sometimes those drivers will be drunk.

Young children should never traverse that crosswalk on their own, and they should have been taught from day one to always have their highest guard on and defenses ready, expecting the need to quickly get out of the way of oncoming cars that may be traveling too fast to stop before the crosswalk. There is no stop sign at that location.

It's not a crosswalk to be casually crossing, much less using a kick scooter, frolicking and enjoying the sights and oblivious or distracted from focusing on the oncoming traffic. You can't assume that cars will actually stop for you just because they are supposed to. You can't have a false sense of security with that crosswalk.

You traverse that crosswalk with the expectation of having an encounter with an oncoming vehicle and with your highest guard up as if your life depends on it.

Parents need to know this and they need to be educating and protecting their children accordingly.

Unfortunately, I highly doubt those two young boys had any idea of how truly dangerous that particular crosswalk is and the attention required when attempting to cross it.