Here we go again...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/4416112.stm

How about teaching the little fuckers to cross roads?

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But they're allowed to run into the road willy-nilly.
It's their Yooman Rights innit?

 

How about slowing down to 20mph outside schools?

 

Ding.

It's **always** someone elses fault these days.

 

I'm sure the concensus last time round on here was that roads were play
areas.

At least I remember questioning that assertion and some people standing up
and saying "but they are!".

<shrug> Don't care.

The one in the paper made me laugh though (for cynical values of laugh)
because it said kids are more scared of being run over than being attacked
by a stranger.

 

"Sheri Ozdemir's 13-year-old daughter Rachel was hit by a car as she
crossed a road in Aberdare"

I think I'd commit suicide too if I lived in Aberdare.

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"Kieran Evans left behind eight brothers and sisters"

Not like they didn't have a spare.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Krusty

See, there's another thing. The car (according to the story) was doing
90MPH.

Was she crossing a motorway, or can we assume that the presence of a
20MPH limit wouldn't have made much difference to that driver?

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Two different things innit. There's lots of road safety taught at out local
school but there's not a lot of point mentioning that in an article about
driving slowly past schools.

I'm with Garp on this one anyway.

 

"Parents whose children have been killed or injured in road accidents in
Wales are calling for speed limits to be cut to 20mph near schools."
....
"She was on a pedestrian crossing when a car, travelling at about 90mph
went into her, said her mother."

Riiiiight.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, flash

I have no particular argument with the idea (provided it's introduced in
the Septic manner, i.e. it's only 20MPH during school hours and term
time), but there's *no* mention of training the stupid little bastards
not to trot out in front of nasty hurty cars at all.

And, yes, that was a bite. You ****.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4416158.stm

"The government has suggested that education is one way to tackle the issue
of road safety.

For example, it has been suggested that funding road safety awareness
lessons in schools could reduce the number of accidents. "

 

Most of them can't run that fast anyway.

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The latter - but the BBC are hardly gonna let a small detail like that
get in the way of a bit of sensationalism.

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What's needed are vehicles with bigger wheels, like on 4x4s, that way at
least the kids don't get stuck in the wheel arches.

 

The only dead body I've ever seen was the result of someone trying to cross
a motorway[1].


[1] It was lying in the middle lane on the N1 motorway.I had to swerve quite
hard to miss it :-| [2][4]
[2] this being in SA
[4] townships on both sides of the road.[5]
[5] we didn't stop - see [4].

 

I drive past three schools every morning at about 5mph because it's
not possible to go any faster. The little twats will mostly just walk
into the road in front of you and expect you to stop.

I get really tempted to give some of them a slight nudge at times.

 

Well yes, but I was more unhappy about the fact that the kids are even
worrying about being attacked.

I mean sure I didn't talk to strangers and knew I shouldn't - but I also
didn't hide under my bed all day thinking someone would attack me.

What a fucked up world.

 

And lo, a wheel was reinvented in the East of that great land.

 

Please forward cost of new keyboard, there appears to be tea all over this
one.