BLOOMINGTON — The City of Bloomington will limit the hours during which people can use electric scooters following the recent death of an Indiana University student who was struck while riding one.
The post directly references Nathaniel Stratton, a 20-year-old IU junior who died after being hit by a suspected drunken driver Sept. 18 near the intersection of North Walnut Street and East 12th Street. Howard is charged with leaving the scene of an accident, causing death while operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and reckless homicide. As of Tuesday, she was scheduled to appear for a jury trial March 27, 2023 at Monroe Circuit Court.
Should we restrict pedestrians too? I mean she was driving the sidewalk, so it only makes sense based on this response for city officials.
Officials will do anything but address the real problem (hint: it’s cars and their irresponsible drivers, not scooters).
Does citybloomington also plan to limit the hours during which people in houses can sit on a couch watching TV?
Shouldn't they have a curfew on cars if this is their logic?
Tell me you are being sponsored by car manufacturers without telling me you are being sponsored by car manufacturers..
It wasn't his fault, we see what you are trying to do. By putting the blame on him, and not the drunk rich girl. Shame on you.
You all assuming that just that one single vehicle scooter accident was the reasoning behind this. It was just the only one cited in this article. I remember several other accidents resulting in death that only a scooter and alcohol were involved.
'The City of citybloomington has announced that it will limit the hours during which women may be outside a little more than three weeks after 20-year-old IU student Jane Doe was raped and murdered while walking outside.'
Whoever wrote this headline should stop calling themselves a journalist and resign. You forgot to mention the drunk driver swerving onto the sidewalk.
Looks like the news article is deliberately conflating things, the FB post actually refers to a different death a month earlier that may have been due to not being able to see the pavement at night.
citybloomington PROTECT YOUR DAMN BIKE LANES
Due process for drunk murderers and zero tolerance for their victims.
The circumstances would seem to require a car curfew instead!
Thank you, City of Bloomington, for making the city safer for drunk drivers.
This makes no sense
FTFY WRTV: The City of Bloomington has announced that it will limit the hours during which people can use electric scooters a little more than three weeks after a car driver struck and killed 20-year-old IU student Nate Stratton.
“…. After 20-year-old IU student Nate Stratton was run down and murdered by a speeding drunk driver.” Fixed it for you.
Wasn’t he killed by a driver of a car? Maybe we should limit the hours of operation for those 🤔
What the fuck
'Student was struck and killed' What killed him WRTV? Huh? Something made this student die and it wasn't a scooter. 'Bloomington announced it will limit the hrs of use for escooters after a driver struck a 20 yr old with their car, killing the student'. End the passive voice
This is so backwards!!!!!!
This is the equivalent of limiting the hours women can be outside in response to a woman being attacked or killed. What are they thinking?
Traffic violence is legal. For cars that is.
They should also limit hours for drunk driving.
You didn’t even mention on the 5pm news that he was struck by a drunk driver. What the heck!?
Maybe limit the thing that (apparently passively) struck him instead?
Drunk driving should be a felony on the first offense.
so when y’all banning cars if we’re going by murder count?
A man was shot and killed while watching TV therefore we are putting a limit on the hours you can watch TV. Absolute fucking clown world.
Ban cars
Maybe they should restrict the hours when murderous drivers can use cars? Just a thought.
Midwest, not even once. Have they tried to use speed limiter from that scooter and install it into the truck?
this is fucking horseshit! restrict the drivers who MURDER PEOPLE citybloomington
Because this was the fault of the scooter and not the drunk driver. Might as well limit walking to daylight hours as well.
citybloomington This is seriously your response? Wow, just wow. Let me just recap here - a student on a scooter gets struck and killed by a drunk driver and you decide to limit hours of scooter 🤔
That’s just stupid. Maybe everyone should just stay inside during ‘drunk drivin time’
Oh, yeah. That ought to solve the problem of drunk drivers. JFC.
How are students going to be safe when they are still allowed to walk places tho? Better to just outlaw pedestrians don’t you think
Really strange logic here citybloomington . The car and its driver caused the death. Why not restrict cars or driving?
Uh I don’t think the scooters are the problem. It’s cars, drunk drivers and municipalities that design negligent bike/pedestrian infrastructure that offers no protection.
Us: ban cars (2-ton death mobiles) please! Bloomington: let’s ban dinky little scooters that don’t hurt anyone instead!
'Howard was driving anywhere from 50-70 miles per hour when she hit Stratton. The report says witnesses in the area saw her swerve into the bike lane and hit him. She was also driving on the sidewalk.' Yo, sounds more like they need to limit the hours cars are allowed!