This one asks more questions than it answers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/7161165.stm

(Seven year-old girl killed in collision between quad bike and Range
Rover)

Like what was a small kid doing on a quad bike in the road, in the dark,
anyway?

Unless the RR mounted the kerb, I suppose.

Oh well, that's someone's Christmas present totalled.

 

Funnily enough, I read that this morning and was just discussing it
with Elly.

That was the pertinent question.

The other question is how pavement-legal is a 100cc quad? IMO, a
seven-year old should not have been out on a quad, let alone on the
road in the dark - on road or pavement.

Only 10,000 to go.

 

Indeed. I'd never heard of a Shark quad, and wondered if it was one of
those little electric thingies. I was startled to find out exactly what
it was.

Well, that's what comes of having Essex parents, I suppose. Thick cunts.

<Thinks>

I wonder what Ant bought his kids?

 

But will plod take any action against the parents for letting her out
on the quad?

 

Exactly the same as it would be to ride any other non-road-legal 100cc
vehicle along the pavement - not at all.

In a supervised off road environment it wouldn't be too bad , but outside in
the street is just plain daft

 

I had to google for it. It may be that Shark make a range of quadlets
too, but the 100cc one seemed prevalent.

<raises eyebrows>

This is Essex plod, right?

 

The lad had his first powered wheels on his seventh birthday. A low
powered 50 auto MX bike which he learned to ride on private land in
two inches of snow.

I wonder if the quad was only crossing the road to get to a field or
other land?

Still stupid to let the kid ride it across, particularly in the dark.

PF

 

Or, come to that - a road-legal vehicle.

For all we know, the ex-sprog was a farmer's daughter that had been
riding quads competently for years. I'd go along with the daft theory
until proved otherwise, though.

 

Obviously, the driver of the offroader was to blame.

 

"It's sorted! It's gripped! Let's <AAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH> ...
<CRASH!>"[/QUOTE]

It's a Darwin thing - in ten years time, that kid would have been doing the
school run in a Rangie of her own.

 

As has been remarked in here before - if women didn't have fannies, we'd
throw rocks at them.

Buggered if I can recall who said it first, but it's one of lifes little
aphorisms worth remembering.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"A scone and tea at half past three
Makes the day a little brighter
Keep your cakes and fancy tarts
And stick them up your shiter."

 

Oh yes )

 

It's a Darwin thing - in ten years time, that kid would have been doing the
school run in a Rangie of her own.[/QUOTE]

At age seventeen?

<Thinks>

Essex girl.....

Yes, you're absolutely right. And she'll have three kids by then, too.

 

^^^^^^^^
would have had

 

And tits. Tits are nice.

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often
find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen. ~Compton Mackenzie,
Literature in My Time, 1933

 

But she still wouldn't be allowed to drive.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=504651&in_page_id=1770

 

Well, having just seen the news report on tv, it looks like it happened
on a country lane with grass verges, so there was no issue of the quad
being ridden on a pavement.

Sounds like the RR driver was pissed and the kid was riding illegally.
Double-whammy.

 

Some daft Essex tart gets locked up, then, and the world is rid of the
danger of total fuckwits' offspring passing on their genes. Everyone's a
winnah!

 

OMG! So it's teenage drivers, and not speeding, after all?

 

Not if you read the mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=504711&in_page_id=1770