01-24-2016, 11:14 PM
Don't know if you guys heard about what happened here last Friday, but a 15 year old boy along with his 15 year old friend, a 12 year old, and a 15 year old girl took a stolen Toyota RAV4 on a "joyride" at 1 am in our city. They hooned around until they crashed into a pregnant woman with her 2 year old in the car in the city.
The pregnant woman was dead at the scene. The 32 week old foetus was delivered at the Royal Hobart Hospital and is in PICU. The 2 year old survived with serious injuries. The woman had just dropped her partner at 1am to work, he is a baker. The community has raised over $120,000+ for the family.
The "joyriders" escaped with minor injuries. The 15 year old got charged with manslaughter and with our system here will be out in a couple of years. I know in the US they would have seriously locked him up. This event has seriously shaken up the whole community and the State, which is a larger community.
We drove past the scene slowly along with other cars on Saturday when coming home from a BBQ and there was a huge crowd there gathered for a memorial.
The pregnant woman was dead at the scene. The 32 week old foetus was delivered at the Royal Hobart Hospital and is in PICU. The 2 year old survived with serious injuries. The woman had just dropped her partner at 1am to work, he is a baker. The community has raised over $120,000+ for the family.
The "joyriders" escaped with minor injuries. The 15 year old got charged with manslaughter and with our system here will be out in a couple of years. I know in the US they would have seriously locked him up. This event has seriously shaken up the whole community and the State, which is a larger community.
We drove past the scene slowly along with other cars on Saturday when coming home from a BBQ and there was a huge crowd there gathered for a memorial.