Young child caused accident on pavement

We were reading your posts, which was all we had to go on. Now it seems that perhaps you mean that although regrettable, accidents, even fatal accidents, are a natural part of life?

Or am I paraphrasing incorrectly? Because that is truly not my intention and I apologise if that is the case. It is a valid point of view, though in this case I disagree and think the adult was negligent and beyond rude.

What a ridiculous comment. Older people falling and getting hip breaks can be life altering. My mum never got out of a bed ever again after breaking her hip. The adult in charge of the buggy pushing kid is ridiculously careless and needs parenting instruction and common sense instruction. What a pathetic excuse for an “adult”.

When children are given a job to do, they often feel like this. Nothing to do with the parents or the accident.

Well, it is getting to the stage where parents are being held responsible when it is their negligence which causes the issue as in this case and as in the case of the Stockport killer.

Hopefully one day parents will realise that deciding to have children comes with responsibility.

If you persist in your view that falls are no big deal can I suggest you study this recent document from NICE?

There is a big push on fall prevention at the moment because it causes so many premature deaths and costs the NHS so much money.

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng249

This is such a strange view. Do you apply it to everything? Abuse is common. Rape is common. Does that mean there's no point trying to prevent either of those things since they're common and so "not a big deal"?

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‘Traumatise’? 🙄

Why assume the child was walking ‘with purpose’? Children shouldn’t be pushing a buggy out of reach of the parents until they are sensible enough to not collide with people

I have been hurt by children - one threw their shoe at me and the other ran straight into me from behind when I had a cracked coccyx. The second time the father just smiled and gave a half hearted apology. I was in so much pain that I just ignored him and hobbled away.

He then decided to follow after me, raising his voice at me because it was apparently no biggie and the child was just messing about.

I may have told him to fuck off 1 not my finest hour but I don’t regret it.

Yes the parents are to blame for not keeping a closer eye on the 8-year-old
They are the ones responsible

Eh? you’ve just totally made this up 😂

No one said anything about “swerving and hitting” anyone. OP said originally the child “charged into” pedestrian. Nothing noted about who was/should have been anywhere.

However this then was much less dramatic in the next post where the OP said the child “clipped” the pedestrian. Very different story inciting a very different reaction of course.

Nonetheless, no one “swerved and ran” into anyone. For all we know (and I suspect this given the inflamed language which was de-escalated in the subsequent tellings) the child was walking with purpose and not completely bolting down a busy street.

To summarise:

• What happened was really shit. No one should be charged.
• Of course apologies should be made, as when anyone is injured.
• Hopefully the parents learnt going forward.
• I imagine the parents were trying to not traumatise the child when reassuring them it was an accident, which is obviously more acceptable than berating them in that moment.

Can you imagine a world….. thankfully we don’t live in a country that charges people for such things hey!

thank you, at least that adds context to how it happened

How can anyone say that the child causing an injury is OK?

I agree with you @Senso the adult supervisors are idiots, they should be held responsible.

I do hope the injured adult fully recovers.

They were not walking towards the pushchair. The kid pushing the pushchair swerved and ran into them.

was the person walking towards the pushchair at the time of the accident ?

Sadly I think you are right! I would still enjoy annoying them though 😂

I am guessing from your response that you do not yet have elderly parents or PILs. If you did you might be aware that falls like this can be very much a big deal.

Agreed. But not just for elderly women. We lost DFIL this year following a fall which caused a broken hip. No it wasn't caused by a young child and a pram! But elderly people can so easily be knocked over. A fall for an elderly person is very much a big deal and, in many cases, can lead to death.

Elderly people needing hip replacements have a grim long term prognosis. They don't tend to last years after having one done.

It is a big deal when you are frail and elderly, and some parent thinks it fine to let their kid have "control" of a pushchair and hit someone over.... and causing them life shortening injuries in the process.

So death is no big deal?

Now you're just talking nonsense for the sake of it.

It was an accident waiting to happen. You do not let a young child push a pram near other people. Middle of the grass in a quiet park - ok. Busy pavement or a supermarket- no.

Well that demonstrates the exact opposite of your earlier point. Something that's not a big deal wouldn't require calling an ambulance or a trip to A&E.

You... replied to my point. Where I was referring to parents, of which I am one. It is very much what we're talking about. Parents can control their children's behaviour. It's a big part of the job description.

The thread is about a kid. Pushing another kid. Behaviour causing injury.

I'm oot.