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And all because she's too lazy and / or too incompetent to properly parent her child. If you really think something is dangerous for your kid, you're the number one person responsible to keep them away from it.
How could it be my fault my kid got hit by a car? The government built the street in front of my house!
I consider that analogy somewhat different. Being able to leave your home to travel safely is a basic human right. Cars on roads are inherently dangerous, even if you try to be defensive as a pedestrian. You can be sitting in your grassy front yard and vehicles can come crashing in to kill you. That happens on a regular basis in the US. You can be walking on the sidewalk and have a car run you down. The vision of kids running into the street to be hit isn't the only risk, merely existing is. Hell, there's plenty of people killed in their home by cars crashing into their houses!
Car crashes are the #2 reason for children's deaths in the US (#1 is now guns, it was cars until about 3 years ago). It's the #3 reason for adults to die after heart disease and cancer. Those stats are actually low balling it because we're finding the noise and pollution from cars jacks up many of the other categories (including heart disease, cancer, dementia). Living by car roads is just inherently dangerous, regardless of how you try to teach your kids to avoid being run down in their own neighborhood.
The government building car only infrastructure, I feel, is an immoral and murderous act against the public. It's categorically different from the parental preference of whether your 14 year old manages to see some porn using a computer you bought on an Internet connection you installed.
It ought to be considered malpractice on the part of the civil engineers.
The government should be paying millions of dollars to the family every time someone dies of car.
Or because a lawyer approached her about it…