Wednesday December 26, 2007, 6:30 am
Another tragic accident...senseless....

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 6:30 am
What a tragedy...I pray for her family and friends and the truck driver, who was not held accountable nd stopped immediaetly to try to help. How will they ever get over this? The guilt will be overwhelming for the parents and the driver, although they carry no blame.

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 7:03 am
There have been countless tragedies that have occured around the holiday season. At a Christmas parade near where I live, a boy, who was visiting the area, was killed by being dragged under a float. When terrible things like this happen it affects the family and friends for years to come. A time of peace and goodwill becomes a constant reminder of grief and loss. Please pray for all the families who have had tragic losses especially during the holiday seasons.... :(

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 7:21 am
my deepest sympathies to the families involved. what a crying shame....

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 8:04 am
How awful and so very sad..

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 8:12 am
This is so sad. My heart goes out to all involved.

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 8:19 am
Such a sad story....makes me think of hugging my grandkids even more than I allready do!

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 8:25 am
This breaks my heart to hear this. My deepest sympathy to the family. Sadly noted. Thanks Cate.

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 8:41 am
So tragedic for all involved. I had a friend years ago that the same thing happened to. Their little girl got a bicycle for Christmas and then was hit by a car and killed.

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 8:50 am
I read this today in yahoo.com...very sad...

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 8:53 am
Noted with sadness and prayers for all involved.
Thanks Cate.

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 9:03 am
Noted sadly. This is so terribly sad. My thoughts and prayers are with her family.

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 10:02 am
Jackie and the Solis family, my thoughts will be with you. You are not to blame, please forgive yourself. God bless the Solis.'

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 10:12 am
Noted . . . with sadness.

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 10:54 am
Noted with sadness. My sympathy goes to the family of the little girl and the driver of the car. May their god and their friends' love be with them.

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 11:48 am
So sad. I am so sorry to read this tragic news.

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 11:48 am
So sad... I am so sorry to read this :-(

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 11:49 am
So sad. I am so sorry to read this tragic news.

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 12:14 pm
i could have gone forever without reading this one...:(

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 12:34 pm
Sadly Noted. My thoughts and Prayers for the family and Truck Driver.

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 1:02 pm
This is a tragic accident that could have been avoided if one of her parents had been supervising her activity. I never let my daughter ride her bike alone till she was tall enough to be seen by motorists, and then only in specific areas. We must start to take control of what are children are doing as their parents. Tragedy strikes in a second unless we are there to prevent it. This is a tragedy for all involved.

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 1:58 pm
Poor baby Jackie. Her parents should've made her ride her bike on the sidewalk only!! They should've walked beside her until she got the hang of it. I know her parents are beating themselves up over this already. Jackie wasn't even related to me and I'm feeling the guilt over it. I will pray for the Solis family.....

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 1:59 pm
I cannot imagine how her parents feel. What a terrible thing to happen just after Christmas.

Noted, thanks Cate.

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 2:03 pm
Noted, with the deepest sympathy.....

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 2:37 pm
noted, Sad story again.

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 2:37 pm
noted, Sad story again.

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 3:36 pm
God Bless this poor girl and her family

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 3:59 pm
How awful! Goddess bless and comfort them.

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 4:20 pm
Words alone cannot encompass the sadness this envokes. Somehow we are to make sense of this tragedy. Only the prayers and the positive thoughts of a saddened nation can start to heal a wound so deep. It is not given to us to know the true nature of these things nor the timing of them. A young life has been foreshortened and the lives of all those involved changed forever.

Each of us must appeal to that that we hold as Divine and seek strength for the family and for the driver. We must trust that the spirit of the Divine will give that strength as others have been given that ask for it. I care not what you call that almighty being...only that you have faith as I have that requests will be granted. And for Jackie to find the peace and love that awaits us all.

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 4:45 pm
This is incredibly heartbreaking...that poor girl...her poor family...

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 5:27 pm
My deepest sympathy to the family. This is every parents worst nighmare.

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 5:40 pm
with Heartfelt Sympathy for the family & the driver...this is just so horrible...you wonder why these things are allowed to happen....God Bless Everyone...noted

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 5:56 pm
That poor family, I can't imagine how terrible they must feel.

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 6:07 pm
What a shame, I am crying for that little darling, God bless her and her family. It is just terrible to see a child die, no sense in it whatsoever. There must be a special place just for children in the afterlife. Bless the family, my warmest regards!

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 6:49 pm
Terrible tragedy for all concerned, my heart goes out to them all.

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 6:51 pm
Give me a break, here, folks!

When I got my first two wheeler, my dad was out there with me, eveyr single day, practising, until I got it ...

WHO are the parents who let this child out, by herself, alone ...

It's time for the U$A to have "parenting classes" because so many parents don't know how to raise children . . .

It's very, very $ad!

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 6:59 pm
Blue, Her older brother was outside with her, he just left her for a minute to get a drink. I am glad that the driver was a honest one and stopped to render aid. We had a lot of hit and runs down here due to street racers and people that drink and drive. No one was at fault here it was just a horrible accident.

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 8:16 pm
Parents are not superpeople, chances are they are just mimicking their growing up and surviving. It is truly a cut throat world out there.

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 9:16 pm
Noted So Sad

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 9:24 pm
Today, a friend and I passed a couple of kids accompanied by their grandmother--on their brand new Christmas bikes. We thought they looked so cute. Then I read this story about this girl who was riding her Christmas bike and was killed. Such a sad tragedy.

Wednesday December 26, 2007, 9:26 pm
So sad...I have 3 little ones...and can't imagine losing a one of them. I just don't know when is a safe time/age to let them out of my sight? I know the one time I let my kids go play with a group of neighboring kids(I had drawn boundaries out and he was with big sis-older neighbor kids-- I would usually hang out and read, or be at my window at desk) is when one of the older kids from another complex came by and dared my then 5 year old son to dash across the road and back. I heard about it after the fact. I was horrified and grateful at the same time.

I live near my kids school now, and they could walk themselves...but I see the folks racing about...tail gating me.

As for riding things, I'm driving the kids to the park and towing their gear.

Please get the kids in your life to get used to helmets as early as they get on anything with wheels, and make it mandatory . I know folks with kids older that refuse to wear them for fashion reasons and such. Maybe this will raise awareness and save another.

My sympathies to the family.

Thursday December 27, 2007, 1:19 am
Noted,
How sad for the family of the little girl and for the driver.
We had one here a few years ago where I would have led the lynch mob, the 9 year old was on the sidewalk not the road, the sidewalk & this guy on drugs and had a little to drink managed to leave the road, become airborne and landed on the child.

Thursday December 27, 2007, 1:33 am
I just can't stop thinkiing about that darling little girl and even now when I post, tears well up in my eyes, I am so saddened by this event. I am making a pledge to all of you right now to drive with extra special care especially in town. I see the cars zooming way over the speed limit and I shudder. I am also going to keep the speed limit on the open highway where there are little children in people's cars and I would just die if I caused the loss of life to anyone through driver faulth. I never much respected speed limits and was a hot rodder is my early years, but thanks to my psychiatrist I am controlling that form of road rage and that is what it is. God bless all you caring people and I know just how you all feel because I feel the same way!

Thursday December 27, 2007, 2:38 am
Being a grandmother to 5 I always worry about my grand babies for they ride their bikes. My heart goes out to the family and the driver of the truck. For he will carried this with him for the rest of his life. The family will never see their beautiful little girl again. So sad. I cried when I read this, and prayed at the same time. So may the Peace of the Lord be with them today and everyday always, may her spirit live on in God's heart songs.
God's Heart Songs.......


Shh!! Listen as you go out today,
for God's heart songs are for you to hear this day.
Hear it in the gentle breeze as it goes by,
or in the birds that are singing such love songs to you today,
for God's heart songs may come to you in the way
of a new born baby's cry,
the laughter of the children running by, so listen close
do not run, and miss the love of the ones that is
God's heart songs of the day.
Tonight, as you come home, hold each one
to you and hold them close.
Shh! Listen to their hearts. they are just
singing to you God's heart songs of the day.
Ann Davis Tuton
@5-11-2005

Thursday December 27, 2007, 11:31 am
unspeakably sad.

Friday December 28, 2007, 12:16 am
I said a silent prayer when I read this. I have a little girl as well and the thought just shook me inside. My deepest sympathies go out to her family...this is such a terrible tragedy. There are so many awful people in this world...makes you wonder why such an innocent, beautiful, harmless soul had to go this way and not them. May her family find peace in their hearts and may they someday find the strength to smile again for their little girl is now an angel....

Friday December 28, 2007, 5:57 pm
This is really awful and so very sad!

Saturday December 29, 2007, 3:27 pm
How very tragic...

Sunday December 30, 2007, 12:16 am
Too terribly sad.

Sunday December 30, 2007, 11:29 am
Another little Angel got her wings that day, may she put her head on Gods Lap and be at peace and her family know that God is takeing care of her. We will all meet her some day, and what a joy that will be. Hugssssssssss everyone and let God do the rest!

Monday December 31, 2007, 5:21 am
I guess God needed another angel to teach all the other children who died before they learned how to ride a bike and thought she would be the best.

Look into the clear sky and you will see a star you haven't seen before... maybe... just maybe that is the newest angle looking over us.

Wednesday January 2, 2008, 4:18 pm
So sad, my prayers go ou to the driver and family.................................I am sure they are consumed with guilt and I can't help but ask, why wasn't she wearing a helmet? I have 3 children ranging from 16- 3 and event the oldest it told he must wear a helmet to ride a bike. It used to be a constant agrument with my 14 yr old daughter, (one that I always one!) untill the municipality passed a law requiering ALL children under 16 to wear a helmet when riding a bike, now I just say its the law and if you don't like it walk! My 3 year old dosn't event know you could ride with out one since it is kept with her bike and mom dad and her siblings always wear one too! I think the best way to get kids to wear there helmet is to lead by example. Agien my prayers go out to all those that have been hurt by this tragidy, I hope a lesson can be learned that will save lives in the futur.

Monday January 7, 2008, 2:45 pm
A note,since the report metioned fact child was not wearing helmet. That might only have helped in a very slow speed or regualr fall,as something manufactures & others do not say,is these helmets are worthless at speeds or hits that make one land on something at speeds over 30mph.
True-where was at least one parent.
Extreemely sad,and painful of all involved,but this child did recive what she wished for most& the chance to use it,& if she must die,she appears as if she died quick,while enjoying what she wanted most. For those beliveing in any Deity-This perhaps,was her own time,graced to come,in this way.