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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The most dreadful bike accident I ever saw was in September.  A woman had a child in a car on the back seat and the mom hit a bump and turnover the bike.  The child was tossed off the back carrier and skidded across grass and hit a drainage pipe.  Blood gushed from the child's unhelmeted head, and the woman was too dazed to come to her aid. Fortunately, I wipes in my car and was able to stauch the blood, but it was a horrible sight.  I suspect the child will have to have plastic surgery to re-attached her eyelid and surrounding area and maybe for the abraided skin on her face.  [/quote]

That was near where I live (and a terrifying video), but according to the DCUM anti-bike trolls like the one in this thread (cough, cough, ND, we see you, like it's really obvious), this is perfectly fine because it's so rare that no enforcement of anything is needed. Oh, and the kid lived, so they don't count anyhow. Oh, remember the two girls hit while walking (in a crosswalk while with their father) on walk to school day last year? They also lived, so they don't count anyhow.

But really, what they're saying is that the children shouldn't be allowed out of their homes. It's the parents' fault for allowing kids out of the house, even just to go to school.

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DP but oops, you referenced a different accident. The one I was thinking of, a mom and kid were biking down a small road and a car ran a stop sign at a high rate of speed and plowed over the kid without stopping - and it was all caught on camera by a neighbor's front door cam. (Kid was lived).[/quote]

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