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No, they were not crossing at pedestrian speed, and the mom should have been right next to the child (whether walking or biking). If you seriously think the parents did nothing wrong here, then I guess you're one of those reckless parents I see everywhere. Glad your kids emerged unscathed.  And I'm sorry you don't get the basic physics of why moving more quickly on a bike reduces visibility compared to walking.  [/quote]

You know what moves even faster than a bicycle? A car. Should we all be driving at walking speed, to prevent collisions?[/quote]

Look, you're not doing biking, and biking with kids, any favors by denying the obvious.  Bikes need to stay safe; bikers with small kids need to stay EVEN safer; and there are a set of well-known rules of defensive biking that this family failed to follow.  You'd be more persuasive if you admitted their error and tried to educate people about how to stay safe biking with kids.  Otherwise, the upshot of this video would seem to be (for a rational parent):  "biking is too dangerous!  cars never slow in the crosswalk!" when the reality is that this family could have taken precautions to be more safe.  [/quote]

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