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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Are you kidding me?  It was ILLEGAL for that SUV to pass the car stopped at the crosswalk.  In Maryland, that is a driving offense.  It's also Illegal for them to go into the crosswalk while it's occupied.  There's probably enough violations in that video alone for the drive of the SUV to lose their license.[/quote]

People are talking about keeping children safe while you are asking Maryland to enforce traffic laws. Are you insane? [/quote]

Not the PP you are responding to, but I agree and am quite sane.    Maybe you need to wrap your kids in armor and transport them in SUVs to keep them safe, but if safety requires this kind of thing, we should spend more time making streets safe than shaming parents.  Just as we should spend time fighting rape culture, not blame women for going to parties, etc.

But this being DCUM, parenting shaming is going to appeal to many people rather than advocating social change[/quote]

OMG.  did you just compare basic safe biking principals to rape culture? Seriously? What's wrong with you?

WALK YOUR KID ACROSS BUSY INTERSECTIONS.  Yes, the SUV was wrong; but the parents were also wrong.  [/quote]

I compared the way we talk about things.  Do we lecture the victim about not taking adequate precautions, or try to change the society that forces precautions that should not  be necessary.[/quote]]

I'm not lecturing the victim - I am using this opportunity to make sure people are educated about safe biking.  Is it also "forcing precautions" to teach teens the basics of defensive driving, and to teach kids to look both ways before crossing the street?  Sheesh.  [/quote]

You are absolutely lecturing the victim - you are saying the parents were at fault.  And on top of that, complaining that other people are talking about enforcing the law against unsafe drivers.  It is very much like focusing on "What was she wearing, why did she have drinks at a frat?".

And again, I don't see what they did that was unsafe.  I can't see how walking dismounted would be safer than riding at a walking pace, or how riding with the dad would make the child safer in this instance.

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