Young child caused accident on pavement

“So that's that behaviour stopped easily enough. Hardly impossible.”

how would you stop it then?

OP ridiculous comments. My partner suffered a stroke and we have spent thousands of £££ on rehab, if a kid knocked into her and she fell over and broke a hip, for us that would mean needing carers for many months, and a lot more rehab. I would be hoping for sufficient CCTV to make the claim she would have against the parents a lot easier. As it would literally cost us thousands.

The claim is a tortious claim and the loss is the financial loss. These things don’t just happen, and yes it is someone’s fault!

Yes that’s not how it works, legally ( and morally!) at least. It is foreseeable to anyone of ordinary intelligence and foresight that allowing a young child to be in charge of a bulky heavy object in a restricted space, at least carries the possibility of accident and injury to the child, others or property.

I’m particularly triggered by the scenario described having once witnessed a toddler in a stroller careering into traffic in the road, the young child pushing the stroller at speed having lost control of it and let it go.

Lazy irresponsible stupid parents. Say no to your kids and keep them and others safe.

There isn’t anything wrong with your thread title and definitely YANBU.

Hope the pedestrian was ok, and yes the parents could have prevented this

its Friday night, the contrary arsehokes are on their wine and bored

You have no idea how big a deal it was to the poor woman that ended up on the pavement, She could have broken a hip, sustained a head injury or had a heart attack half an hour later. If she is elderly it may have frightened her so much she will never go out on her own again.

It's not "essentially assault."
Under tort law negligence in supervision would apply, but the test isn't easily met.

My mum's friend let her older child push the pram. She lost control and it rolled into the road. The baby inside the pram lost a leg. Could have been a lot worse.

And those ignorant parents will sadly raise equally ignorant children.

Young kids should be in charge of pushchairs, end of.

My cousin used to let her young DD push her little sister, until one they out of the blue during a walk DD randomly starts running and lets go of the pushchair. We all learned a lesson that day.

(everyone’s fine, all DDs still alive!)

I hate seeing young children in charge of other young children. I remember watching a teenager holding a baby while her mum did the shopping and her toddler-aged sister was having a meltdown cos the teenager wouldn't give her the baby. I'm disabled so the slightly jolt can cause a nasty fall so a pushchair running in to me eould be bad and I would certainly expect the patents to take responsibility and reprimand the careless child.

Quite a lot of parents can stop their kids pushing a pushchair, particularly when it's clearly potentially dangerous for all parties. So that's that behaviour stopped easily enough. Hardly impossible.

Older folk, those with disabilities, injuries, preganancies, or simply just the will to not get rammed while going about their lives would probably appreciate such easy curbs on behaviour.

Those parents were irresponsible to a unbelievable degree. I guess from some of the responses on the thread, there are more like them out there.

OP, you are very definitely not unreasonable.

The parent was to blame. They should have not let their child push the pushchair at such a speed that they hit someone over.
It was not an accident... it was stupid and totally preventable.

Its fine for kids to push pushchairs supervised what is not fine is charging into other people which is quite bizzare behaviour for an 8 year old

What if the person hit had been elderly and broken a bone in falling. Or even had a fatal heart attack? Is there any legal way of punishing the parents for what is essentially an assault.

That’s quite the leap really.

It’s an 8 year old pushing a pram. Honestly.

Would you say the same if the child pushed the buggy in the other direction and put the toddler under a lorry?

That’s what OP said in an update.

in terms of being hit by a pushchair - this was entirely preventable.

This is just victim-blaming. The parents are at fault for not controlling their child and if it were a member of my family hurt in any life-changing way, I would be seeking prosecution or other legal redress.

I remember being injured a few years ago, and it was a big eye opener for me - navigating around my home city, commuting using buses and trains; when I usually could move aside or let go of a handrail for someone, duck out of the way, turn normally, or anything else - I couldn't. I would definitely have been hit, and hurt badly. Glad all the pavements you use are so wide and airy - I could have done with those!

God I’d feel a right dickhead if I got knocked over by an 8 year old with a pram. That’s probably why it was a big drama. To cover the embarrassment

YANBU OP and I see the nitpickers are out in force tonight. Of course no one can or will do anything about it, but you’re entirely right to think that the child shouldn’t have been pushing the buggy or at the very least that the parents should have been supervising closely enough to stop the collision. My 8yo likes to steer the buggy but I won’t let her go out of grabbing distance in case it tips into the road. And if she did manage to clip someone I’d be mortified and think it was 100% my fault!

No no no you wouldn’t limp away you’d be DEAD obviously. With your level 65 Osteoporosis. Dur, silly!

Did she break her hip then?

A broken hip is a big drama🙄