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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That family should have waited for all the cars on that road to stop.
Yes, the driver in the SUV was clearly wrong, but we live in an imperfect world and [b]all the legal right in the world won't make up for your kid dying in an accident.[/b]
Also, I heard a car honking, so thankfully, at least one stopped driver was able to intervene and alert the moving SUV to slow down.[/quote]

This 1000%.  The mom should have NEVER let her small child bike across unaccompanied on that busy road. Or the dad should have waited and walked altogether with his kids. I don't fault the SUV. I understand that people will disagree but I do not think it's the SUV responsibility to necessarily slow down if the car to the left is stopped. That car could be making a left or asleep at the wheel. It is, however, the responsibility of the parents to make sure the kids are safe at a crossing that does not have a stop light or very visible signage that someone is crossing.[/quote]

There is a yellow sign a few feet back indicating the presence of pedestrians. This is a 30MPH road.  A vigilant driver, going 30MPH, should have been able to see the family and stop - and the stopped car in the left lane should have added to their caution, even if there was a chance it was waiting to turn.

But we want the right to drive at 40MPH, without being vigilant, on roads like that, so we blame the people crossing in the crosswalk instead.

Then when people cross OUTSIDE crosswalks, we say "safety problems are caused by jaywalkers" and wonder why people cross where there is no crosswalk.[/quote]

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