Pranter
Imperial Majesty
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I've been in a few accidents (none determined to be my fault) ..one of them fairly serious. So yes I know all about the emotions ..however I was not that out of it where I was unable to determine rational thought the day after. Regardless if the media approached the passenger...she made the choice to do the interview. The optics for the passenger are not great and quite frankly most folks would consider her actions to be questionable to suspect.
I've had a rental car the same day as an accident happened....just depends on how fast everything is done...next day is fairly common.
There's no reason the DoE shouldn't be driving after the accident. There's no law saying you have to wait X days to drive..he was cleared by the doctors and whatever police testing needed to be done. The lap belt issue was raised earlier that the BRF have been known to use them. Even if he was not wearing one..so what, private property doesn't require them therefore I don't understand the outrage. The only reason you care about optics is because the media is quick to jump on this and make a to-do about it. Stop getting sucked into media narrative.
We also don't know about personal contact by the representatives of the BRF. The passenger hasn't said there has been no contact..just that the DoE has not apologized...based on what I have read and to be honest I don't trust that the media is reporting anything accurately. It doesn't make sense for the BRF (their PR) to have lied about contacting someone to see if they were okay. We have not heard from the driver.
You can say you aren't pointing fingers..but you are.
LaRae
I've had a rental car the same day as an accident happened....just depends on how fast everything is done...next day is fairly common.
There's no reason the DoE shouldn't be driving after the accident. There's no law saying you have to wait X days to drive..he was cleared by the doctors and whatever police testing needed to be done. The lap belt issue was raised earlier that the BRF have been known to use them. Even if he was not wearing one..so what, private property doesn't require them therefore I don't understand the outrage. The only reason you care about optics is because the media is quick to jump on this and make a to-do about it. Stop getting sucked into media narrative.
We also don't know about personal contact by the representatives of the BRF. The passenger hasn't said there has been no contact..just that the DoE has not apologized...based on what I have read and to be honest I don't trust that the media is reporting anything accurately. It doesn't make sense for the BRF (their PR) to have lied about contacting someone to see if they were okay. We have not heard from the driver.
You can say you aren't pointing fingers..but you are.
LaRae