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[b]Ok, I posted many, many links about this, but here goes again.[/b]

When you are biking or scootering on the sidewalk or on a bike path, you MUST slow down extremely, or walk your bike, instead of coming quickly off the sidewalk or bikepath into oncoming traffic.  This is because although drivers may be looking for pedestrians, a bike is moving to fast for them to anticipate and stop in time. Apparently there's some disagreement of fact here, but I saw the child going faster than walking pace.  Also because she's small, she's even less visible.

Secondly, if you're crossing a lot of traffic, you can't just assume that the cars are going to stop - you have to be watching to make sure they are, be able to see all the cars, and be ready to stop if they don't stop.  Most 4 year olds can't do this; thus, they should not cross alone.

https://www.bicycleaccidentprevention.com/

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None of these links were about walking your bicycle across the crosswalk. I honestly don't understand why somebody would think that guidance that provides a lot of detail and includes advice about not riding on the sidewalk, but does not say a single word about walking your bicycle across the crosswalk, is guidance to walk your bicycle across the crosswalk.[/quote]

JFC!!! Will you stop with the strawmen!  There's no universal rule that you must walk your bike through the crosswalk, and I apologize if I made it sound like that.  What those links CLEARLY CLEARLY CLEARLY demonstrate is the hazard of coming off a sidewalk or bike path into traffic, and why you must do so extremely cautiously and SLOWLY.  In this case with this particular crosswalk, however, dismounting and walking the bike would absolutely have been the most prudent thing to do. 
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