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Whose fault is tragic accident?

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We are all born with a free will and by the time we are 7 years old, we can reason fairly well but we still have to rely on our parents to guide us. As we get older, we have the right to make our own choices and decisions. Sometimes these decisions and choices are not the right ones and can be fatal.

I read the story in the Herald-Standard on June 27, about the two young men who were involved in a fatal accident after leaving a bar in Waynesburg.

The young were driving at a high rate of speed and were unable to negotiate a curve.

The bar owner is being arraigned on two misdemeanor counts each of involuntary manslaughter and recklessly endangering another person.

My heart goes out solely to the parents and family of these two boys because it is a tragedy to lose a loved one.

Who is responsible? How can one man who owns a bar be responsible for the death of two boys that he never saw that night? Where the boys at another party and another bar before they entered the bar in Waynesburg? Were these party-goers responsible? Did the boys have proper identification?

If not, is the person responsible who gave the 18 year old a false identification card? Did the bar owner order the boys to speed on the way home?

Is it the fault of the automobile manufacturers for letting cars go over 35 mph? I can go on and on about whose fault it is that these young men met their final destination that night, but who is responsible?

Frances Simon

McClellandtown

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