Young child caused accident on pavement

It will be a big deal to the pedestrian if, say, their injury affects their ability to do their job or even other things they may have planned.

Sorry, but that's a stupid response.

How can you be so ignorant ? Osteoporosis is very common, and you don;t even have to be that old, I got it in my early fifties. If I fall I break a bone, it's as simple as that, and it certainly isn't an everyday occurrence.

A child clearly not responsible enough to push a pushchair sensibly and have regard for other pedestrians, caused an incident. Not an accident because it was entirely avoidable. If your kid is too immature to push a stroller sensibly, don't let them push the stroller.

Where I live people ride scooters, bikes and even electric bikes on the pavement, it is a constant fear that I will be hit, I'm also visually impaired, should I have to stay in my house because people can't behave responsible and afford other a bit of consideration ?

Unfortunately I’m not convinced it would teach them a lesson though. People with this type of mentality would likely just see this as them being victimised unfairly for an ‘accident’ that was totally ‘outside their control’. Yes they might be inconvenienced with their time in court and yes they might be annoyed at having to eventually pay you damages. But I highly doubt that they would actually learn any lesson from it. To do that, it would require a shift in either their understanding or their behaviour. I highly doubt they would be prepared to step back and examine their behaviour with a critical lens; that’s a level of self awareness such types never possess!

So did anyone tell the parents they should have been supervising properly?

hopefully it was just bravado and when they got home they felt bad about it and will be more careful in future. Doubt it though!!

The pavement around me are about 3 person wide! Where do you suggest the other person goes? The road!
It may be an ‘accident’ but the parents should apologise and take better care.

Not a big deal until it’s you whose been knocked over by a child in charge of a pushchair, and laid up in bed with an injury for a few days.

And use scooters in shops

Yes it's awful it happened, but I know plenty of 8 year olds who could push a pram carefully enough not to hit people. Maybe this 8 year old has some difficulties with coordination, and if that is the case and the parent(s) know this then they shouldn't be pushing the buggy obviously. I'm not sure though that the parent could have been expected to know a normal 8 year old wouldn't be able to control a pushchair and they may have done it fine many times before. Obviously if they were 3 or 4, that would have been different.

Eh? "It is hardly a big deal" that the parents were stupid enough to put 2 children in jeapody and allowed one to cause a person to be injured??

I despair at some poster's take on things

I’m a 44 y/o able bodied, reasonably fit adult and even I can struggle to control a full trolley, especially one with a wonky wheel, either in a straight line or successfully navigating a turn into an aisle. Letting a young child steer one around a busy shop without any adult present to give help with movement or steering is just crazy to me.

That is the thing, when it’s not about money - doesn’t matter how long it takes them to pay. It will teach them a lesson.

On the flip side, I hope it doesn’t happen and I don’t have to do that. I just find that some parents lack accountability, well people in general. Or they think they can do what they want as no one will do anything about it.

Same idiots allow their child to push laden trolley around supermarket.

I think an eight year old pushing a pushchair is fine... mine used to help with the pushing... but pushing it in an out of control, overly fast way isn't ok. Kids that age could just as easily hurt someone as they whizz around on scooters on the pavement so I'm not sure its the pushchair thats the issue- rather than parents not taking responsibility and control over their kids.

Well think some more. Elderly woman falls and fractures her hip. Strong likelihood that she will contract pneumonia and die, all because some stupid parent allowed their kid to do what they wanted. I don’t know about you but if it was my mother that was injured I’d be fucking furious.

Fair enough. Of course civil litigation would absolutely be an avenue you could pursue in this situation and to be fair, I’m not even sure you’d need your deep pockets either! There are plenty of Personal Injury solicitors who would happily take your claim on on a ‘No win, No fee’ basis, all in the pursuit of some chunky fees if you’re successful. Of course, it’s also no real skin off their noses if you lose as they’ll have insisted on the purchase of some After The Event insurance to protect them from being left hanging and not getting paid.

The lawyers always win….

And in the meantime you then have to spend more money having the judgement enforced because the type of parents who behaves like this, is the type of person who will claim poverty and either dodge paying completely until the Bailiffs appear on their doorstep / offer a payment plan of £5 per month that will take them 15 years to clear the amount owed to you.

In my view, the only dickhead(s) here is the negligent parent(s), not the poor sod that got knocked on their backside and DH’s like that are very rarely prepared to self reflect and change…..frankly because they don’t care enough about anyone else to bother.

They didn't have a fall - they were pushed.

My DF could be seriously injured, ie hospitalised, by this type of 'accident'. But it's no big deal.

No, but maybe the parents should be ?

Big age gap here. I don’t let my older children push the pram. It’s dangerous, anything could go wrong. I.e pram goes into road and I’m too far back to stop it, pram topples over, someone tries to take the buggy etc.

and yes using a mobile phone whilst walking with a pram is dangerous. Just as walking down the road completely absorbed in your phone and not paying attention to what you are doing.

You may not have seen my previous point, if it happened to me….I put my hand up and admit I am a dickhead, thankfully a rich dickhead. As the parents, after being sued by me, would learn! Even if they are not wealthy, I would do it so they would learn, as the legal process isn’t pleasant.

Is this a serious question?

The problem is you can’t say anything because you don’t know the mothers situation or the kid or whatever 🙄

i can imagine the thread on there if it was written from the parents perspective

’don't worry, you did nothing wrong, it’s important your kids be given some freedoms’

’she Should have jumped out the way the daft cow’

’this is your world and no one else should be living in it’

’don't beat yourself up, accidents happen’

Yes exactly.

i don’t believe for a second anyone thinks someone would troll over something so dull and mundane, but thinks thats a winning insult 🙄

If an 8 year old child has potentially caused someone to break their hip then the adult responsible for the 8 year old should be apologising massively. Yes an accident for the 8 year old who maybe can't be counted on to know better. But the adult responsible for them should have done.