Be careful biking with your family

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Ugh, you never let a small child cross a street alone, the taller parent should have dismounted and walked the child across. Yes, the car seems reckless too but they couldn't see the little kid behind the vehicle in the turning lane. So lucky!

[Anonymous]

Wow! Car was clearly in the wrong but no way that little biker should have been crossing the street without a parent directly at her side or IMMEDIATELY IN FRONT OF HER. Yikes.

[Anonymous]

Umm why is the kid going out on the bike by herself? You get off the bike and walk with your child. If there is no stop sign or flashing lights, drivers typically do not stop at the cross walk. I don’t think you have to, correct? And it looks like the father had safely made it across so the truck that was stopped, blocked the view.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh, you never let a small child cross a street alone, the taller parent should have dismounted and walked the child across. Yes, the car seems reckless too but they couldn't see the little kid behind the vehicle in the turning lane. So lucky!

But if the child got hit, would the car be at fault? I don’t see why it actually would

[Anonymous]

You have to teach your kid and parent must act as if every car is trying to hit you and act accordingly.

Same applies to Birds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh, you never let a small child cross a street alone, the taller parent should have dismounted and walked the child across. Yes, the car seems reckless too but they couldn't see the little kid behind the vehicle in the turning lane. So lucky!

But if the child got hit, would the car be at fault? I don’t see why it actually would

Striking a child in a crosswalk???? Yeah. Driver at fault.

[Anonymous]

This was frightening. This small kid was practically not noticeable for the driver of the black SUV who managed to stop in time. Holy shit!!!

BTW - how did you get the dashboard camera and how can we get one. This was similar to the Russian crash videos on youtube.

Glad the kid is still unharmed and alive. The parents require some knocks on their heads for being idiots.

[Anonymous]

Parents also shouldn’t have let her cross until traffic was stopped in all lanes. The car that almost hit her had to have already been visible when the girl started to cross. You can’t trust that they will stop when they’re supposed to.

[Anonymous]

Road biking is so, so dangerous. I wish our roads were more bike-friendly, but they're just not.

[Anonymous]

And the driver didn’t notice the car stopped on his left at the crosswalk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents also shouldn’t have let her cross until traffic was stopped in all lanes. The car that almost hit her had to have already been visible when the girl started to cross. You can’t trust that they will stop when they’re supposed to.

Parents have to assume all cars are gunning for your kid. Most people busy texting and other nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Road biking is so, so dangerous. I wish our roads were more bike-friendly, but they're just not.

They were biking on a bike trail. They were simply crossing a street, at pedestrian speed. They waited for traffic to stop and then entered crosswalk. They should have been pretty visible with bike and colored gear. Assume black suv was on phone.

[Anonymous]

I would say the message here is be careful when you are driving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh, you never let a small child cross a street alone, the taller parent should have dismounted and walked the child across. Yes, the car seems reckless too but they couldn't see the little kid behind the vehicle in the turning lane. So lucky!

But if the child got hit, would the car be at fault? I don’t see why it actually would

The car wouldn't be at fault. The driver, on the other hand, absolutely would be.

Drivers are obligated to stop for people in crosswalks. The driver's excuse would be, I couldn't see the child because of the other car. But if you can't see the whole crosswalk, you need to stop, not go barreling through it and hoping no one is there.

That said, small children are difficult to spot, and the parents should be more careful, especially on 2-lane roads. This is now an older gentleman on a recumbent bike was killed a few years ago at the intersection of Little Falls Road and the Capital Crescent Trail, which led to changes in road design.