Six year old cycled into couple

[Itwasntme1]

I wondered if anyone has seen the footage of the sox year old who cycled into the couple walking the dog.

Interested in views on it. I assume the child didn’t know how to stop, so she ploughed on through the couple.

None of the adults covered themselves in glory. The dad should have stoped her and then stopped filming to comfort her. The couple should have checked she was okay, and the man should absolutely not have kicked her bike.

Not in any way excusing the dreadful behaviour of the horrible man, but surely most parents would have caught up with her and told her to wait. He didn’t even know if the couple heard.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-kicks-terrified-six-year-22013795

Yep justaboy its very possible both of them didnt hear. Me and dp both suffer deafness me in one ear and low hearing in the other and dp damaged his hearing standing next to speakers at gigs every weekend and has the tv volume right up or cant hear. We are both deaf as fuck and cant hear bells or feeble calls.

That said why is the woman a twat she hasnt done anything wrong at all.

My mum is deaf In one ear and this can mean she has issues working out what direction noise is coming from, if she even hears it. It can lead to disorientation too, if this happened to her she wouldn’t have been able to process before she was knocked off her feet. She is extra careful and tries to keep aware of her surroundings but this would have really really knocked her for six.

Just watched the video. The man looked like a thug. Couldn't hear the audio. The girls' parents should have apologised and the man shouldn't have made a big thing of it.

It struck me that the father is an angry entitled cyclist who resents having to negotiate shared paths with dog walkers. There's people waiting in on the right of the path at the beginning of the clip, allowing tear dad to pass, he gives no acknowledgement in thanks.

He seemed to be goading the whole thing, "keep going"??? Really!? In what planet is that okay to encourage your child to deliberately ram into people from behind, never mind during a pandemic where we must adhere to a 6'6" distance from others??

Also, when his daughter fell off and was crying, he paid her absolutely no attention. His motives were to berate the couple for daring not to hear him. What if they'd been deaf?

The father is a twat, I don't blame the guy for kicking the bike as he walked away. The father is lucky it didn't get picked up and wrapped around his head.

100% the dads fault. Encouraged daughter to keep going. Then started argument instead of apologising, carried on filming whilst his daughter was upset and possibly injured. Also wonder if it was set up so he could have something to unload to Facebook, dad is a total wanker.
The bloke from couple kicked the bike out the way through frustration, unsurprisingly, the title suggests he kicked the kids bike with the little girl on it.
I hate social media for this kind of stuff, just encourages twats like the dad and half wits with poor comprehension skills to start hate campaigns. I feel sorry for the couple just minding there own business one minute and having their behaviour dissected by the general population the next.

When I've seen families out, usually one parent rides ahead and the other behind - so there wouldn't be a situation where a 6-year-old was out in front and trying to navigate past adults on a narrow path.

Why would you carry on videoing the people with your child on the floor?

They clearly didn't know she was coming. Oh dear.

I can’t believe anyone believes the couple is in the wrong! If I’m driving my car and shout excuse me or beep my horn rather than slowing down, does that mean it’s the fault of the car in front if I crash into them? (For anyone who says this is only a child, no-one who can not control their vehicle of any kind should be allowed to ride/drive it in crowded public spaces).

Poor behaviour from all 3 adults. Dad was at fault. However, whilst the walkers shouldn’t have been expected to (a) hear Dad shouting or (b) allow the child to pass closely at that particularly narrow point, they reacted abysmally - the man especially.

A quick note on giving way to cyclists approaching from behind... 1 in 6 people in the UK, including me, are affected by some sort of hearing loss. I’m pretty sure this is one of the reasons why we give way to what we can see in front of us, rather than what we can hear approaching from behind. Like most people with hearing difficulties I ‘tune in’ and function near-normal in most situations, but tend to miss unexpected sounds.

I’m usually hit by at least one child on a bike at Centerparcs each year, despite avoiding cycle paths and sticking to the sides of dual use and walking paths. Parents are generally very apologetic but puzzled why I didn’t leap over the wooden fences out of harm’s way as “I did call out to you”.

RyanBergarasTeeth Righto!, understand that, glad now i never had my head in the bass bin's all those years ago. Normally i was mixing the PA so suppose all well, nearer 70 now but one of the day jobs is quality assesing/checking classical recordings!

I just thought that the couple were being a bit daft, if that were me i'd had said to the dad "sorry deaf!, couldnt hear you" and I'd thought the woman there might have comforted the little child!

But there we go;!

One thing that strikes me about all this is how trivial things can hit the national news. I remember as a child, riding my bike a lot around our cul-de-sac. One day, being on the pavement, I ran straight into a car that was pulling out of its drive. I got a good shouting at, unsurprisingly. These days I'd end up in the Daily Mirror.

It was a cycle path! Of course they should have moved. The couple behaved appallingly.

If a small child bumped up against me on her bike, fell to the ground and cried I would immediately check if she was hurt
We'll never know whether the couple would have done that or not because the father went IMMEDIATELY into blaming them for his child crashing into them. Didn't swoop in and comfort the child but, rather, straight up made sure he deflected the blame. There was no chance to do anything but defend.
I was also waiting for a big kick of the bike but he moved it out of his way with his foot. A little more forcefully than necessary maybe but hardly a huge kick. Not sure I wouldn't want to do the same. Even the headline is misleading.
"Entitled parent lets child ram into unsuspecting couple then shifts blame" would have made a more accurate one.

Justaboy, in case you haven't noticed, we are not supposed to be going around touching strangers so not sure why you expect that the either of the couple should be comforting a child (especially one that has just cycled right into them) and particularly, why would this be the woman's job? Because she isn't a man, like, for example, her father? Maybe he should be comforting his child but instead of shouting at the victim of his child but maybe being a dick man means he couldn't possibly do that?

It was a cycle path!

Exclusively a cycle path? Can you evidence?

Just look at the width of the path. It would NEVER be suitable for a bike to be ridden as any pedestrians on the path would struggle to get out of the way.

We have a footpath behind our house - the clue is in the name - FOOT PATH. We have gates at either end of the path to stop people riding bikes but during lockdown my daughters had to leap into the grass to avoid an entitled arse speeding along a space that was never intended to accommodate more than two people walking closely side by side.

The news article calls it a cycle path @AldiAisleOfCrap (love the username btw!) but it later says it is the Blackwell Trail which is mixed use www.derbyshire.gov.uk/leisure/countryside/access/walking/walks-and-trails/blackwell-trail.aspx

This means cyclists giving way to pedestrians.

Not at all clear from the article though and, like you, I’d have had more sympathy for the Dad if it was a case of cheeky dog walkers blocking a dedicated cycle path!

Why was this even posted on social media?! Neither adult acted great but you would just draw a line under it and move on.
Not post it to shame them. Especially as the most comments on the Daily Mail,Mirror etc arent supportive of the dad..woops! Backfired a little

I was taught as a child that you get off your bike and walk it past people - I would have had my bike confiscated if I’d just ridden into people. The girls dad is at fault for not telling his kid to stop, entitled behaviour from him.

I was writing some feedback for the council on our local cycling provision. I suggested promoting guidance for shared paths: " Walk on the right, ride on the left, give way" or something similar.

I am a considerate cyclist, I really slow down to pass pedestrians, but often they have headphones / maybe hearing loss and no amount of warning bell pinging/calling out seems to get a reactionnor acknowledgement.

@SuperFurryDoggy ahh ok I only read the news article, am not familiar with the area.

@SuperFurryDoggy I always have to avoid that aisle or I come out with all kinds of bizarre items

The dad is in the wrong. You can't go around allowing your children to think it is ok to cycle into pedestrians if they don't move over for you, regardless of whether or not you've said excuse me.

If she had done that to me I'd have sworn too because I've got very painful disabilities, and weak bones, so she could have done me some damage.

Before they took their post down all their mates were encouraging them to go to the police. I hope they have and I hope the police have given them a bollocking for telling the little girl to "keep going" and for flouting social distancing rules.

Being crashed into, from behind, must have been really alarming/sore.

It is not acceptable to do that, even by a child. Dad should haves said stop.

Putting the video on social media highlights what sort of person he is.

I am a considerate cyclist, I really slow down to pass pedestrians, but often they have headphones / maybe hearing loss and no amount of warning bell pinging/calling out seems to get a reactionnor acknowledgement.

So do you just barge through then? I can see how it’s frustrating to have to slow down down for those with possible hearing loss 🤔