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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I sometimes walk with my children in my neighborhood. Arguments against car safety for kids on bikes also means arguments against care safety, traffic safety, trafic enforcement, etc. for kids on foot.

Kids must leave the house. Streets should be improved to make them safer. Cars have hit kids in crosswalks walking with their parents and one single instance of that, no matter how rare, is unacceptable to me as a parent.

I support emergency legislation for the specific location every time a pedestrian or biker is struck.

Bottom line: As a driver, I'm willing to accept street safety implementations that slow me down if it means safer roads for my kids who must, sometimes, leave the house for a variety of reasons. [/quote]
What does this have to do with following the law so that kids wear helmets that evidence proves saves lives and protects from brain damage?[/quote]

What it has to do with is that the folks starting this thread inevitably devolve into the chronic argument over whether every traffic accident with a bicyclist is the bicyclist's fault or the driver's fault and whether DC should ever have anything for traffic safety, ever. There's someone who keeps starting these arguments on this forum (suspicion that it's a specific, notorious, anti-bike person previously named). So we end up with arguments of distraction, like saying it's parent's fault for not putting a helmet on their kid's head rather than the driver's fault for hitting them.

Sure, parents should make kids wear helmets on bikes, but we end up with folks who stretch this into that people shouldn't ever bike with kids in DC, that kids shouldn't be outside at all (what?), that it's bicyclist's fault for biking unsafe vs. an issue with drivers not being safe. [/quote]

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