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Curtis L . Russ
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On 10 Feb 2004 06:12:42 -0800, [email protected] (Bill Meredith) wrote:
>> However, in a residential neighborhood when kids are visible running around and playing, things
>> should be different. Any driver that doesn't take that situation as a warning sign is callously
>> stupid. And any driver that doesn't respond by slowing _way_ down is criminally negligent.
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>In any case other then not moving at all there seem to be no speed at all above zero that would had
>allow someone to stop a truck in time to pervent a rear wheel from running over a child that ride
>his bike into the truck side without warning.
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>Please tell us what speed, in your opinion, would have allow a driver to react in time to had stop
>this child from being kill?
In his second case, things ARE a lot different. Its one thing to have parked cars that block vision,
but if a driver can see kids at play AND see when one or more of them veers toward traffic, yeah,
they should be slowing down and stopping if necessary. I've come to complete stop more than once in
residential areas because of an unguided 5-7 year-old missile.
Curtis L. Russell Odenton, MD (USA) Just someone on two wheels...
>> However, in a residential neighborhood when kids are visible running around and playing, things
>> should be different. Any driver that doesn't take that situation as a warning sign is callously
>> stupid. And any driver that doesn't respond by slowing _way_ down is criminally negligent.
>
...
>In any case other then not moving at all there seem to be no speed at all above zero that would had
>allow someone to stop a truck in time to pervent a rear wheel from running over a child that ride
>his bike into the truck side without warning.
>
>Please tell us what speed, in your opinion, would have allow a driver to react in time to had stop
>this child from being kill?
In his second case, things ARE a lot different. Its one thing to have parked cars that block vision,
but if a driver can see kids at play AND see when one or more of them veers toward traffic, yeah,
they should be slowing down and stopping if necessary. I've come to complete stop more than once in
residential areas because of an unguided 5-7 year-old missile.
Curtis L. Russell Odenton, MD (USA) Just someone on two wheels...