On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 19:36:32 +0000 (UTC), Tim Woodall
We *really need* that citation.
In the 2 instances where I've come close to running down a child in the street :
In the first instance (In Vienna) a child emerged from a terraced house, the front door of which opened straight not the footpath ,2 paces wide, adjacent to the major road. It would have been an "A" road in UK, and then ran straight out of the front door, across the pavement (0.5 Seconds) and into the traffic without looking.
In the second schoolchildren were walking home on the footpath in Leeds near here alongside an "A" road. They were jostling each other and feigning to push each other out into the road in front of the cars. I saw this happening ahead and slowed down, and saw just one such an attempt in front of me. but just as I drew level-just in front a kid from a different group took a running lunge from behind and pushed a schoolmate (?) out into the road ahead of me. I "made a full emergency application of the brakes" which was the only time the ABS has "come on" in nearly 5 years, and only just avoided running over him.
Except it isn't specially significant if the kid gets pushed into the road by a schoolmate and *run over* by a vehicle weighing 2 tons.
DG
