Can the parents reach closure with this?

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw4448xx4keo

Horrible tragedy but the driver was completely innocent having had an epileptic seizure with none previously occuring. The problem seems to be the parents can't accept this. Should they have been advised against not making a statement as it will probably exacerbate the huge guilt felt by the driver for no reason.

What a terrible tragedy.
Obviously the driver is in no way to blame for having a seizure for the first time in their life and I'm sure the parents know that deep down but they're in terrible pain and it's human nature to react emotionally and feel a need to assign blame.

Where does it say she had not previously ever had an epileptic fit? Am I missing that in the article?

It's an awful case, in every way. I'm not sure how it's better to feel that you have lost your beautiful DC by some deliberate act or a terrible accident. Nothing will bring them back sadly.

Im sure it's not helped by the fact that these things take so long to be resolved.

I feel so sad for everyone involved.

What a horrible and sad situation for the driver and the parents . Maybe in Time they can come to terms with it

The CPS said there was no evidence Ms Freemantle had ever suffered a similar seizure before and she had no previously diagnosed medical condition.

I agree. The chances of the said events are also extremely low. The parents are grieving immensely but I don't think continuing to try and pick holes with the CPS will bear fruit.

It sounds like the parents would not accept the first time seizure conclusion at all.

I feel for everyone involved here; but it must be very difficult as parents who have lost a child to hear that charges won’t be pressed and there will never be a trial. They’ll never see the evidence that’s being mentioned. They’ll never feel that justice happened.

I’d imagine the driver can empathise with the parents, and their comments won’t impact on her too much. It was absolutely accidental, by the sounds of things, but she killed their children. I think she’ll probably give them a lot of leeway in how they’re feeling.

You don't. There is no "closure" when your child dies.

it definitely states that she never had one before and was in good health

I can’t imagine you ever heal from the loss of a child. A sudden loss, no warning, adds shock into the grief. I suffered from shock for 21 months after DH died in a RTA. I heard Simon Weston speaking about the shock he suffered from for over 20 years.
It’s totally understandable that the girls parents want someone to be held accountable, someone to be punished and they need that to be visible. I’m sure the driver has punished herself over and over but it truly was beyond her control.

It's a tradegy for everyone including the driver.

Yes its in the article

OP there is no such thing as closure really in a case like this.

Tragic accidents cannot be solved by 'justice'. Justice cant turn back time.

There is no legal or criminal justice to be had here

Its not clear if those words and thoughts are the parents own or whether its a 'spokesperson'.

Awful situation for all involved, but they are not doing thmselves or their grief any favours by believing the investigation was flawed.

Ah yes, thank you. The article hadn't loaded properly on my phone. I see it now.

I guess it is acceptance that it is an accident really.

This case terrifies me. I started experiencing seizures in my thirties and the idea that I could have caused an accident like this (before I was diagnosed and stopped driving) is awful.

How devastating for those poor parents and those little girls. What a terribly sad situation. I agree with others, it was no one’s fault so it’s pointless trying to pursue anything because it wasn’t a criminal act.

Its taken the CPS a long time to come to this conclusion. Possibly for good reason. Or because it's taken a while to get the evidence.

If it's taken so long to get the evidence, one wonders why? The driver was clearly wealthy. If i was the parents i'd be wondering how legitimate the evidence was. Especially considering how little information was shared with them during the process.

A tragedy all round really. I do feel for the parents though.

I don't think closure exists for this. It's an awful accident that is stupidly unlikely to happen, but it happened to them.

There isn't any justice to be had, it wasn't the drivers fault in any way by the sounds of the medical evidence so you can't hold her responsible, but for the parents it doesn't change anything, their child is still gone. The poor driver will be living with a million "what ifs" after this as well. Just tragic all round.

It could happen to any of us, not just with seizures, you could have a heart attack at the wheel and go out of control

People tried to raise this on other threads but were shouted down, the narrative being the driver was basically evil and irresponsible and must have been guilty of something.

It sounds like it was a terrible, faultless, accident. It's devastating for the families involved and the driver. I understand the families being angry. It's easier to feel anger than grief. I don't imagine anyone involved will ever be the same again.

The CPS, like all public services, are on their knees. All and most investigations and decisions about charge are taking nuge amounts of time

I said on previous threads about this, as I work with kids, trials involving sexual abuse are commonly taking around 5 years to come to trial.

There's no such thing as closure or justice. Those are media fairy tales.

What happened was an absolute tragedy and I feel for them, however crying out for vengeance against an innocent person is wholly inappropriate.

Sometimes terrible, terrible things happen that nobody can heal from and nobody could have foreseen or prevented. Punishing an innocent person would not have healed anyone.

The threads at the time were horrific - the mob mentality that this was a terror attack by a man deliberately targeting a girls school.

What is so incredibly galling is that had the lady had the fit on pretty much any other day apart from the last day of term, nobody would have been on that lawn. Instead, she would have simply hit the side of the school hall and probably not injured anybody.

Poor woman probably has PTSD