Young child caused accident on pavement

move to one side if your walking towards them ?

but its also said that common sense was not used to avoid it happing to begin with

i read that if your in a car and you know a crash is about to happen and your in the correct lanes etc but you let the crash happen because you were in the correct lanes etc aparently your still partly responsible for not trying to avoid it.

to me it seems this was similar if the pedistrian was walking towards the pushchair then why not step out the way or step to one side ?

its like they both played who will move first and both lost

Agreed, my poor dear nanny fell and broke her hip. She ‘recovered’ but was never the same, she became housebound out of choice as she was so scared of falling again, lost her confidence, spirit and eventually passed away. It all stemmed from that fall!

It's sad that so many on here apparently don't understand that for the elderly, a fall can easily be the trigger that sends them on a downward spiral that ends in their death. I've seen it happen twice in the last few years, just among my own family.

OP, you're right. It's disgusting when parents not only don't watch their children to prevent them from hurting someone (including the child in the pram, in this case), but then excuse themselves of any responsibility when something bad does happen.

No YANBU. I had a supermarket trolley rammed into the back of my legs at the weekend that was being pushed by a kid who couldn’t even see over the top. I have a couple of nasty bruises right across my calves and a bruise on the bottom of my spine because of it and it nearly knocked me off my feet. This kind of thing annoys me. Back in the 90s when I was 8, I would just push my baby doll in a pram, not my little sister.

Right. How do you control careless people or adults that don’t belong to you then?

Unfortunately very true. These same parents are also typically the first people to raise merry hell / be wanting compensation should their precious offspring ever find themselves on the receiving end of an ‘accident’. One rule for one…..

It’s not you we’re talking about. It’s why you think it’s easy to stop other people doing it.

The biggest, toughest person in the world can be knocked over if they're caught off-balance and off guard. It doesn't make them a dickhead. Frankly, if you broke your hip as a result of someone else's carelessness, the issue of how you looked would be way down your list of priorities.

No no no that’s not the question. How would you stop other’people from allowing their child to push the pushchair?

Perhaps they were blind.

But who cares? It is the parents who were totally at fault.

As usual people are bending over backwards to find excuses for lazy and irresponsible parenting.

I feel sorry for the person who was injured and the accident was perfectly preventable if some idiot had not let a child mess around with a pushchair on a busy pavement.

But, the question is fair.
at which point was the pram seen?
at which point was it recognized a child was pushing it?
at which point was it recognized it looked erratic?
what did you do to protect yourself?
did you call out in any way to stop the pram?
did you call out to the parent or anyone else to intervene?

iyswim
It is never a clean cut in court.

I agree with you entirely @Senso. The parents should be considering themselves very lucky the person who was knocked over was not carrying a hot coffee or anything heavy that could have injured their toddler. If they had then the parents would have had nobody to blame but themselves.

You said "We can't control careless people". Guess what, "people" includes chlldren.

Thank you! Omg.

My dad is disabled and suffered two broken ribs when he was knocked over by a kid on a scooter. Not everybody has good reaction times, agile and stable on their feet.

The fact you would even make a comment as ignorant as this is embarrassing.

Perhaps they were old and couldn't move quickly enough.

I'd... tell my kids they couldn't push a pram... obviously.

Your assessment of parents is harsh and generalized. A parent can be a responsible parent and still make mistakes. The situation described by OP could be a one off, first time child has pushed it and it was okay until ... 🙈
Or, child has pushed it countless times before without concern.
Or anything in between.
The question is whether or not the mishap was reasonably foreseeable and that the parent ought to have known.

Barristers/litigators should weigh in. It's an excellent topic to discuss.

No, the parents should be charged causing personal injuries as they are responsible for their child.

Are you the person who has previously posted about prams being as dangerous and using a mobile phone when driving? Lol

eh - not allow the child to push the pram
in the street. Parent the child.