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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I recall correctly, this child was riding her bike and was coming down a hill and just zipped into the intersection with dad far behind. I am a careful and slooow driver but bikes on the sidewalk are always tricky because they’re moving so much faster than pedestrians. [/quote]

Read the article, please.[/quote]
I did. It says she was in the intersection with her father and nothing about the bike, which we know she was riding. The article is not an accident report. [/quote]

You read the article, and that was your takeaway? Wow.[/quote]
Why are you being obtuse? I made a comment that the child rode into the intersection without stopping. You told me to read the article, which said nothing about how the accident actually happened.

I agree we need safer streets, and I know there are lots of tools that can be implemented to help pedestrians cross safely. I also think bikes (and the horrid motorized scooters) don’t belong on sidewalks, in general, because drivers are looking for pedestrians, not other vehicles. Obviously kids need to ride on the sidewalk, but they need to have a parent RIGHT there to make sure they’re safe when they are in the intersection. [/quote]

This is an article about a child who was killed by a driver while she was bicycling in the crosswalk, and you want to make this about things parents should do to prevent drivers from killing their children.[/quote]
Honestly, Allie is a poor example for this article. I get why they write about her, because it’s unbearably tragic, but her story hasn’t got much to do with the innovations they are talking about, other than the possibility of self braking cars that sense pedestrians. But she wouldn’t have been saved by a lower speed limit, since the driver was obviously not going very fast. It would have been better to focus on deaths that could have been prevented. [/quote]

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