Comments about ‘Woman struck and killed by truck with decorated windshield’

How tragic. This young lady's birthday will foreveer be marred by this. Youthful naivete as to the unforseen dangers of driving without a clear windshield. Condolences also to the family of the woman who died. I hope all involved in the decorating will learn from this and be able to fully heal also.

Condolences to all of those involved. I drove by shortly after the incident. I can only imagine how everyone is filling.

... Fellow Magna resident.

I have seen far too many of these teens driving around with "Happy Birthday" or some school theme items all over their car. What a shame! Those who put it on the "Windshield" should be ashamed of themselves and think long and hard about doing it again.

What were they doing out of school at that time of day anyway?

Is this a neighborhood or a business area?

I once was nearly hit in a crosswalk by someone who hadn't bothered to clear the ice off his windshield. He still to this day doesn't likely know how close he was to running me over. I leapt like a long jumper barely getting my lower body clear. My upper body was just catching up to the lower when I looked into his driver side window inches beneath me. He was oblivious, head close to the iced up windshield staring blindly ahead. He missed the stopped truck I had jumped in front of by less than a foot since he took such a sharp left hand turn at the intersection.

Looking at this truck's windshield only brought back my terror from that early morning. NEVER drive blind or partially blind due to something on your windshield. Take the time to clean it off so you can see. This accident was senseless and should never have happened. Hopefully it will never happen again.

We have laws.

Enforce them.

Vehicular homicide.

Charge those who "decorated" the truck as well as accessories.

No consolation for the victim's family, but if these kids spend a few years at Point of the Mountain, that may deter others from doing stupid things.

Actions have consequences, which cannot be absolved by excuses or lack of evil intent.

Perfectly said Sarah B. Absolutely tragic! I can also understand the other more harsh comments. I have at times found myself thinking the same. The stories in the papers seem to be black and white, involving victims and suspects. This time I pause, my daughters know the young woman. My usual criticisms are slow to flow, as I see this story as more than a passing news article. I hope that in the future I can be just a little slower to mete out the punishment that is usually reactionary, and offer more compassionate condolences to all involved. May there be a complete healing for everyone.

Two deaths in one week by under trained teenage drivers. More justification to make first time drivers licenses get more parental training and more limits on passengers in the vehicles. Driving age should be extended to 18 with restricted learners permits for 6 months after taking driving test. They need more training. Which is more valuable, the life of victims and teen drivers, or lazy parents who don't' want to be bothered with their childrens behavior behind the wheel of a car?

These teens having so many accidents are pure neglect and irresponsible parenting. Schools and driver training are incomplete and insufficient for the safety of all.

Such harsh words for people who have no idea what they are talking about. As tragic as the circumstances are we still don't know the whole story.

Right now morn with those that morn. Don't start throwing stones.

This almost made me physically ill. Condolensces to the friends and family of the victim and driver. Obviously an accident, but apparently lots of negligence too. Pushing the limits behind the wheel was part of many of our experimenting/ learning process, but it's so easy to find unpopulated areas where you don't endanger innocents.

I don't mean to slam people for bad judgment, but these "friends" obviously should've considered the girl wasn't carrying around a razor blade to scrape paint off a window! And she obviously knew it was hard to see through the paint because the windshield has wiper tracks showing failure of the fluid in removing the paint. But for that matter why were those balloons still in there?

I've never agreed with open school lunches. Kids overloading vehicles, speeding--either for fun or because there's little time to go wherever. Most of them paying more attention to cell phones and plenty of texting and driving. Same problem not just here but every other place I've lived.

I'm looking forward to hearing the rest of the story. Why did the car veer? Was it really a visibility issue, or some other distraction? When those kids set out they THOUGHT they could see - what changed?

I wonder if it will ever come out? If it does, it would probably help to caution other youth about their driving habits.

Those kids who put up the paint spots did not know that it is illegal to put anything on the front windshields.

Being a family member of this young driver I felt I had to post A comment. First no words can explain our deepest grief for this woman and her family. Our hearts and prayers go out to them. This young 17 year old a straight A student with a love of sports and dreams of becomming a surgeon someday will forever be changed. With each passing year a birthday will come and with that a somber reminder of a tragic event will always be remembered. Before we pass our own form of judgement let us all think back to when at 17 we had our hopes and dreams before us. Today our hearts grieve for the loss of ones family member and we struggle with the emotions of a young child that as families we have to endure. the events of yesterday will always be with us and we will pray for comfort for both sides in this tragic event.

We do have laws which require people to have clean, clear windows in the vehicles they are driving. Please enforce the laws. Whether it is ice in the winter, or paint from a party, or mud from four wheeling all are illegal. Use your brains people, clean the windows!

And its not just decor that is dangerous. Winter is coming. I can't count all the times I've seen People that scrape a small patch from a frosted or snow covered windshield. And they don't scrape the sides or back window at all. Laziness will get you hurt or killed. Clean the windshields and windows completely!

So tragic all around.

BUT--why in the world don't people realize that obscured windshields and balloons in a car will be a dangerous distraction to safe driving? Yes, we were all young (and sometimes foolish), but I can't imagine allowing my kids to decorate car windshields like that. (Toilet papering someone's house, the fad in my kids' days, was bad enough--what a mess to clean up, but not life threatening.)

Parents--if we're going to make it possible to for our kids to drive on public roads, we've GOT to make sure they understand safe driving rules and obey them--if not, no car!

A truly tragic, heartbreaking accident. Hindsight is always 20/20, and surely the driver, those who decorated the truck, and any others involved in causing the accident would do things differently if they had known beforehand the consequences of their actions. I have heard it said that we are punished as much BY our mistakes/sins as we are FOR them. Surely the young driver will carry the regrets & misgivings of that day with her forever. I pray that all involved will be able eventually to find peace.

CARL | 12:07 p.m-
Even if they didn't know it was illegal to paint the front windshield, common sense should have told them it was dangerous.

It's a tragedy, and the careless kids belong in the slammer. I can't help but wonder, though, what this married woman and her male friend were up to while her hubby was out of the country.

I was hit by a car--as a pedestrian, in a crosswalk, with a stop sign,---by a driver who could not take an extra 2 minutes to scrape her windows in the morning so she could see me. I feel I can speak (to some small degree) from this side.

Yes, it was a stupid thing to put those dots all over the windshield, even stupider to try to drive with them there. But to wish that "these kids spend a few years at the Point of the Mountain"???

Isn't that a little harsh?

My prayers and sympathy to the family of the victim, and her friend who had to witness the accident. And yes, even some for the young people in the truck.