So, James Kim is a hero...

Well, I hate to be a bastard, but...
Driving on unfamiliar, lightly traveled mountain roads -- roads infamous among locals as being a trap -- at night, in a blinding snowstorm, all the while ignoring numerous warning signs, are NOT heroic actions. Eschewing the more sound judgement of backtracking to the main highway you missed, or even better, lodging in a motel for the night in nearby Grants Pass, the Kim family pushed onwards, apparently blissfully unaware of the egregiously dangerous nature of their actions. The reasoning, or more appropriately lack thereof, which James Kim demonstrated that night is reckless at best and downright criminal at worst. That fateful decision coast James Kim his life, and nearly that of his wife and kids.

And we are to believe, in the words of the Oregon State Police, that James Kim "did nothing wrong."

Bullshit.