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I'm really fed up of seeing these threads. They're so bleak and the hollow feeling in your gut when you read about them is just awful. Particularly when you hear or read soundbites from those involved or related to the victim. It really personalises it horribly and it hits home hard.
And all we seem to be able to do is just type three little letters. RIP...
It's sickening to feel quite so useless in these situations.
Road deaths seem so horribly inevitable and no matter how many marches or petitions or we go on or sign, I can't see a way of avoiding them completely which is tragic. Even if the "statistics" are taken down to just one death a year, governing agencies will still call that a major victory - and it would be - but not for the families of kids like Christopher :(